In our society, people in stereotypical towns like Harlem, think that the schools are bad and poor. The amount of teachers are low, money to fund the schools is "not enough" and "our expectations are very low". And when society says that, they still want us to believe that the students can do/try their best. How can the students do their best if there is no hope in the schools? Why would they in the first place?

Schools way back when didn't train people to become workers. Like the TED talk about what is school for?, schools for the past 200 years (?) have been teaching students to become obedient to the teachers. How did schools come to that conclusion, that students have to become "productive workers"?