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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This belief - accepted as fact by so many - that poor and minority people simply can't or don't want to learn is where the achievement gap starts.

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The stressors of poverty are well known and they do impose a big burden on a child brain development - almost equivalent to PTSD. It is much harder to learn when you don't know if you'll have a place to stay that night or food on the table, or maybe you'll go home to see your mum passed out drunk on the couch and no dinner in sight[/quote]

Yeah, thanks, I read Paul Tough's book as well.

Not every student who qualifies for FARMs is facing that kind of situation and being low income does not equate with placing a low value on education. It's like saying high-SES = callous bigot. It may apply in some, and even many cases but should never be assumed of everyone in the class. [/quote]

I think there is a difference between a child who qualifies for FARM in an area which has a huge newly immigrant community which may not have huge resources but does have a stable family life and values education (disclaimer, when we first immigrated I was a FARMs kid despite my father being a pHD and my mother being college-educated, simply because it took them some time to find jobs; my best friend in college, whose parents immigrated from a different country was in a similar situation. But this was not DC). But DCPS does not have this situation - most kids eligible for FARMs here come from systemic, multi-generational poverty which is not going to go away any time soon. And I don't know how much value that environment places on education but I do know that the stressors and instability that brings are different and harder to overcome when it's not a temporary thing. Those kids are absolutely entitled to a good education but toold to educate them can and should be different than educating little Suzie who has her parents hiring tutors for her to get her ahead.[/quote]

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