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[quote=Anonymous]The no one has solutions argument is bullshit. Poor people aren't stupid--give anyone access to opportunity and they'll take it.

My grandmother grew up doing migrant farmwork, but still, she--and many many others from her poor, rural high school went to a state school for college and worked their way up. My other grandmother was a war widow with an infant and 16. She grew up eating lard on toast. She, too, put herself through school (and at that point with four kids) and became successful selling real estate.

We were the gentrifying yuppies at my poor, inner city elementary school growing up, but we weren't the only ones. It was an amazingly diverse  place, where students from all backgrounds learned together. And we all did learn. The magnet school I attended after skewed slightly more affluent, but there too were families from all over.

We mixed. And I think that is the key. The mantra that poor kids are just poor and that you can't risk your own children being "exposed" to them is bullshit and sadly pervasive now. And that is a new sentiment. And a disturbing one.[/quote]

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