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[quote=Anonymous][quote] do not see it as a generational problem, but one caused by the way society is built. 
 Poorer areas are more densely populated, local schools are poorly funded because of lower property taxes. 
 The local school does not equip the kids for college (that they do not have funds to go to anyway), but for permanent low wage workers part time unemployed careers 
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The poorest schools get lots of federal money.  The poorest schools in FCPS have much smaller classes and many, many more teachers.  Yet, the test scores are still very, very low. It is true that the poorer systems do not have the bells and whistles of the wealthiest systems.  Money is not the issue.

I have taught in the poorest schools.  I have taught the youngest kids.  You cannot imagine how unprepared they are for school.  That is not the government's fault or the school's fault.  It is also not the fault of the child.  It is the fault of the parents.  When a child has never been read to, it is very hard to teach them to read.  You must start with learning how to look at a book--not just teach the ABCs.  When a child comes to school hungry, it is hard to learn.  And, some of these children have parents who have sold their food stamps for cigarettes or alcohol--or worse.  Schools now provide breakfast for those kids.  That is the right thing to do--but schools should not have to do it.  When a child is abused at home or going from house to house--grandma to aunt to mom and back--it is hard to find the security necessary to focus on learning.  Poverty is a huge problem--but so are drugs.  That is the dirty little secret that no one wants to seriously address.  Drugs in the home are damaging our society.  They are keeping kids from having a childhood.  
Kids in the poorest schools have the highest truancy level.  If a child is not in school, you cannot blame the school.[/quote]

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