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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do poor people with less educated parents have a harder time in school? It makes no sense?!

Why don't they just be wealthier? That's what I did. [/quote]

gmab.   My very poor father graduated at the top of his class, in a lousy hs, with poor uneducated parents who worked all the time.  He was dedicated to school--and worked--and studied his a** off.   Graduated from ugrad and grad schools considered top tier by this board.
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Same.  My fathers family was pretty poor — he never went hungry but he never had toys or any type of extras and worked 100% of the time he hasn’t in school starting when he was less than 10.  He started a business at 12 that paid for his college tuition and lived in a spare room a relative had.  He read every single book his crappy rural school had.  There are still plenty of poor kids that realize education is the way out and bust their butts trying to get an education.   It’s sad for them that they have to put up with schools that are in such crisis because their fellow students don’t care.

But at the same time I also realize that a lot of this comes from the parents.  My dad had loving parents and his father at least understood education was the way out.  Kids who don’t have that, and are dealing with traumatic home circumstances in addition to poverty, may not be able to make that step.  I don’t think the schools are really capable of solving that problem, at least not on a large scale.   I think it’s unfair we expect schools to fix those issues …. But I also don’t know what the solution is. 
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