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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is someone equating going to the Smithsonian as a teaching tool that will cure AA's problems in school?  If that was the case, the average native Washingtonian has not visited the tourist attractions here in DC.  C'mon, it can't be that plain and simple to say, the only thing parents need to do is tour and read to their children.  Once that is done, you are destined to have a scholarly child.

I know some residents that will tour all of the Washington landmarks and read to their children in the park but will not venture into SE or certain sections of NE because of what they read as adults.  Sheesh!![/quote]

No, you totally miss the point.  The point is that if parents won't even bother to avail themselves of the MANY FREE, FUN, EASY, WORLD CLASS educational opportunities all around them, like the Smithsonians, then they evidently do not take any serious interest in their childrens' educations at all - and if the problem's at home with totally unsupportive, apathetic parents that don't give a damn about their childrens' success, then even the best schools in the world will have a hard time fixing the problem.[/quote]

You know that may be some parents, but I don't really think it is most parents.  There have been some interesting ethnographical studies on this issue and what they found is that these parents really did not feel comfortable in these spaces.  But also many of these parents don't quite see opportunity the same way... if you work a minimum wage job you have someone telling you what to do all the time, you have very little control of most of your time and life is not about career.  For these parents life is a drudge and so they don't see childhood as a the time for building your child's skills they see it as the only time they will actually be able to have fun before the drudgery of life starts.  There is a book called Unequal Childhoods that does an interesting examination of this issue.   It is easy to look down on people, but the reality is that many of just see the world differently, what I am more concerned about is that kids that may have the skills and talent and work ethic to do more can because our society provides those opportunities. [/quote]

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