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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]No it isn’t. Sending them outside all day doesn’t involve screens. My kids go out and bike all day with friends. They go watch soccer games, go to playgrounds. Hike in the woods behind the houses. Sometimes play capture the flag in the cul de sac. There are no need for screens or any structure when you have friends. That is the part parents seem to forget. The hours of endless fun you had with friends. Learning to be yourself instead of a robot on a parent schedule. My son is 9 this year and is old enough to bike to the pool on his own with friends. 8 is the youngest for our pool, but most parents won’t let them go that young. This year he has 3 other friends allowed. So excited for him![/quote]

So, all you need to solve the achievement gap is enough money for one parent not to work all summer, a pool membership, and a safe neighborhood with sidewalks within biking distance of a swimming pool.

EASY. If only all those poor people had thought of this simple solution. [/quote]

Can you name all the unsafe neighborhoods in Montgomery County where you can't ride a bike or play in playgrounds once they are 8yr old?  This isn't SE DC. 
County or city pools are $5 to enter and they have very discounted memberships for kids on FARM
Most new neighborhoods have HOA that pay for the pool already.  If you are in HUD, you have full use without pay
Many areas have playground camps which cost $200 for most of the summer and even cheaper if you are FARMS
Many parents rotate shifts so there is a parent home in the summer
Many kids stay home without parents as it is legal in MD after 8yrs old.

So sick of the excuses.  Find a way.  [/quote]
I almost hate people like you. You have no idea of any existence other than your own and have no idea why people do not have the options or make the choices that you make. I almost hate you but in the end I feel sorry for you.[/quote]

NP - And some of us have actually BEEN poor and we are saying that you and your romantic notions of the poor as victims does NO ONE any favors.  Those of us who have been poor keep saying that there are lots of ways to be poor.  You can have a disorganized, chaotic home where the parent trades the food stamp money for cash to spend on booze and cigarettes, etc. and sends their child to school without the free coat he/she received from the school "closet" the last time it snowed.  These are the parents who stick their kids in front of the TV and then curse at them or hit them when they "act up".  Or you can have a home that is small and modest, but clean and neat, where there are simple meals everyday.  In these homes, homework and good behavior are expected.  These are choices and have nothing to do with the amount of money coming into the household.  Being poor sucks; it is stressful.  But many of the ill effects of poverty are due to behavioral choices.  Yes, there is still some racism, but it is unimportant compared to that experienced during the 40s, 50s and 60s, when kids endured crappy segregated schools and became doctors, lawyers, engineers and professors.  It is not an excuse.  Excusing bad behavior and lazy habits in poor kids only dooms them to repeat the cycle.  You are not kind and not compassionate when you do this...[/quote]

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