The one lesson public schools fail to teach

It's June. The Zero ran a half assed article today on barriers to graduating.

Ask these kids how much of their eductation is their responsibility vs someone else's. This is a really interesting and revealing test and I wish it would be given every year to every student on the first day of school.

It was given to a room full of "gifted" students at my jr high back in the day. Only 1/3 answered that 95% or more of the responsibility was their own. This was the gifted class 20+ years ago. I can only imagine how things have degraded since then.

Public schools suck. They have always sucked. So do some private schools. This would not be such a huge issue except for one major problem: The problem is this- schools AND parents fail to teach students one primary lesson: No one is really going to give a crap if you have a rough life. Sadly many rack up 80k in college debt w/out learning this.

The true failure of public schools is the failure to flip the bit in the brain that tells the individual that when life gets to be rough and everything is going wrong- it might be the fault of everyone around you, - but it sure as hell is no one else's problem but your own.

BTW- the group that answered 95% or more for individual accountability went on to do some REALLY amazing stuff in life.