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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Real issue is no one has solutions to poverty's multigenerational effects on education. No one likes to tell poor people their children will end up the same. It's just one more way the promise of the American Dream isn't available to all.[/quote]

Headstart was supposed to ameliorate the effects of poverty on education...it has helped some, but has not been the equalizer that proponents promised. Concentrated poverty        ( compared to areas with mixed incomes), and multigenerational illiteracy can be difficult to overcome, add to that institutional racism and learned helplessness and it can be nearly impossible.

I am white, and grew up in poverty with 2 brothers. My mother dropped out of middle school to work because her father had black lung. My father quit school at 16 to leave an abusive home.  My parents were literate and always emphasized education as THE way out of poverty.  It was a dysfunctional, often volatile family fueled by bipolar depression, alcohol addiction, unemployment and money woes. Despite that my eldest brother and I were able to overcome the odds to earn master's degrees, the other brother started college but never finished. He has a blue collar job and has continued to live in poverty with his wife and children.  The psychological effects of poverty are still with me.[/quote]

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