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[quote=Anonymous]Uh, the problem is poverty - the poverty that the parents grew up in, the lack of education they had that makes them less able to be an at-home tutor.  Really, when my daughter had an assignment to write about a Frida Kahlo painting in school, do you think her fellow students in public housing had parents who knew who Frida Kahlo was immediately and could help their kids with that like I did?

My husband and I know how those in power think, talk, and act, and we can teach our kid how to use that to further her own interests and to feel entitled to belong to those powerful groups.  I didn't learn that because I was a virtuous person but because I grew up in a well-to-do White Anglo-Saxon Protestant household.  Kids in poor households don't get those benefits from their parents - and it really has nothing to do with whether they are virtuous and hard-working or not.

So yes we need to stop pretending that the major problem is the teachers. The problem stems from family background but the answer is to develop more supports for poor families not to blame the parents for being poor. [/quote]

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