Most teachers found in the school system are just as about messed up as some of the kids who attend the school. You have teachers that are drug abusers or some that are criminals and even some who do deal drugs. This may seem hard to believe but in a town so small you tend to associate with most of the people out of the school system and get to know them personally. This affects kids education as much as not going to school would. When kids attend class and it's more about free time than learning time.
Most kids are there because they have to making there situation in school feel like an institution.
I feel this stops most kids from wanting to further there education and just worry about what there gonna do after school. Most of the ignorance i feel comes from many people's situation, since many peole are poor most parents didn't finish school and they don't have jobs so they survive off the government. When help is seeked it usually isn't too successful because who would care about a little hispanic populated town that keeps getting filled with people from Mexico. Now I do feel if an anglo populated suburb was having educational problems the government wouldn't even hesitate to help. The saddest thing is once these kids are given a diploma and placed in the real world there only choice is what most know best.