It goes the other way, too. My daughter teaches high school Spanish in one of the wealthiest school districts in the state. Most of the kids are highly motivated and are in her class because they want to be. Biggest discipline problem is kids texting in class, but every once in awhile, she confiscates a couple of phones for the rest of the day, and that rights the ship.
As parents, you reap what you sow. If you are "achievers", your kids probably will be, too. If you insist on good behavior at home, the kids probably won't be a problem in school. The problem now is that the disrupters aren't afraid they'll "get it even worse" at home, because they won't. Their parents are either absent, drunk, high, or all three, and couldn't care less.
Grandma had a saying that I dismissed as just being circular and meaningless at the time- "Poor people have poor ways, and that's why they're poor." But now, I see the wisdom of it. You can't make people be good parents (its unconstitutional, you know), and you can't make anyone want to achieve, now that the non-achievers get a free ride by the guvment. Back in the day, you had to achieve or starve. I don't think our societal "solution" to that problem has done anybody any favors.
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