Blame the public school system as much as you want, but it all starts in the home.....you have to have parent(s) that care about your education and well being.
Exactly, and what you have here is parents that somehow don't even know that they should care, let alone care!! Without parents that care enough to even get their children to a bus stop for school, what make folks think they will get children to after school activities? WHAT A FREAKEN MESS!!!