All kids deserve a chance but these parents are not doing their kids any favors. Having worked in arguably a "city" school system for several years I agree the problem is much more the parents and culture than what teachers are doing or not doing.
I'm not a single mom so I can't speak for that but being the oldest of 4 with a single mom doing the lion's share of the work, I know clothes can be put on people's backs and kids gotten out the door on time IF some intestinal fortitude is involved. Yet a lot of single parents don't get that done. And these kids more often than not will be single parents continuing the same cycle. Kids having kids, that cycle needs to end. For a halfway smart person with some decent family support I still would not have been ready to be a parent in my late teens.
And add street "culture" to that, with the need to cultivate your Street Cred, you have a recipe for a school
system educating kids that goes BEYOND broken.
The only "nationalization" I want to see is the government to nationalize those parents to make them responsible and responsible for their children.
Want to make those millions work? Tie the kids performance to the parents performance.