Boobie is a seventeen year old high school boy, who is flashy, strong, and fast. He is not a good student in Permian High School, he’s having trouble with all major subjects and facing academic performance issues with learning disability. However, he is not the only one having academic performance issues. In fact, there were many students are having academic performance problems. As Bissinger points out that “in 1975, the average SAT score on the combined math and verbal sections at Permian was 963. For the senior class of 1988-89, the average combined SAT score was 85 points lower, 878” (p131). Permian’s SAT scores have dropped dramatically since 1970s and no one seems to care anymore. There are large amounts of students failing academic performance and it seems is not important after all for people in Odessa. For
Boobie is a seventeen year old high school boy, who is flashy, strong, and fast. He is not a good student in Permian High School, he’s having trouble with all major subjects and facing academic performance issues with learning disability. However, he is not the only one having academic performance issues. In fact, there were many students are having academic performance problems. As Bissinger points out that “in 1975, the average SAT score on the combined math and verbal sections at Permian was 963. For the senior class of 1988-89, the average combined SAT score was 85 points lower, 878” (p131). Permian’s SAT scores have dropped dramatically since 1970s and no one seems to care anymore. There are large amounts of students failing academic performance and it seems is not important after all for people in Odessa. For