Student passes 3 classes in 4 years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA
Watch Season 4 of The Wire (and the previous three seasons as well, it&#x27;s arguably the best show ever put on TV).<p>This is a multi-dimensional failure at all levels. It&#x27;s a failure at the Federal level, where NCLB etc pervert education. It&#x27;s a failure at the state level to provide and enforce educational standards, and to address systemic poverty. It&#x27;s a failure at the municipal level where crime, corruption and bureaucracy failed. And it&#x27;s a failure at the personal level where a mother and son aren&#x27;t communicating, aren&#x27;t taking care of themselves.<p>This failure didn&#x27;t just happen in the last three years to this young man. His path to failure started in kindergarten, in a dysfunctional society that didn&#x27;t care about him on any level.