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90% of these truant & delinquent kids are raised by single mothers without a college degree, 33% of them without a HS diploma. In other words, blind leading the blind, i.e., THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PARENT. Some of them flat out DON'T CARE. As for DPS, they don't have any boarding schools, they are with those children for 5-6 hours a day, 8 months out of the year and then they go home and it's out of their hands. Even a single mother who cares doesn't know what to freaking do. Lip service of "do well in school" does NOTHING. Making a kid do well in school, especially in such horrific conditions as Detroit, is like a full time job. You have to be on your kids constantly. These single Detroit parents don't have the time, care and/or understanding of how to get their children out of this vicious cycle.