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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's nonsense.  80% of DC is not in deep poverty.  And even so, poverty does not have to automatically correlate with poor school performance - take for example latinos and immigrants who arrive as refugees from horrible conditions and deep poverty - typically they close the performance and income gap within a single generation.

As for affordable housing, what is forcing poor families to stay in DC?  It's obviously not for work.  And if we are supposed to consider that it's for family or community, consider that family and community is  the biggest part of what is contributing to poor performance and continued poverty.
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If you don't get it you don't get it. As the previous poster noted, poverty "in general" is closely related to a number of factors. Lack of education, absent parents, lack of resources, hunger, lack of healthcare (illness and poor nutrition cause frequent absences and lack of healthcare in elementary grades often lead to undiagnosed health/SpEd issues). Children of immigrants cannot be compared to low SES children because many immigrants are not low SES, they maybe in their new adopted country but at the school where my child goes many of them had middle-class jobs in their country. There are many African children whose parents are driving cabs that were teachers and professors in their country, they also came here so their children could have the opportunity for a better education.  There are huge differences in educational success between the children of refugees that come from countries of high literacy and those that don't, overall the children from El Salvador that had intermittent education are not doing well.  Many of their parents are illiterate, we even have children who are not highly literate in Spanish. Many Americans lump all immigrant, refugees and ELLs together but statistics show that family literacy and poverty play a huge role. Additionally, many families in NW who are low income live with multiple generations and relatives to afford the rents or have moved to Maryland. There are many domestics in my school, do you really think they can afford the astronomical rents in DC?  If the parents are absent, often traveling as far as Baltimore to clean - who do you think is looking after the children and making sure they do their homework. If they themselves don't speak English, how can they help?  Of course, they want a better life for their children and support their child's education but poverty plays a huge role in many ways as it does for all low-SES children native or otherwise. [/quote]

This is a bunch of utter and compete bullcrap.  People come to America from abject poverty, suppression, dictatorships, persecution and illiteracy in the third world, and through hard work, they find they can make it here in America.  Yet people who were born here end up not even trying, and turn around and blame the system, blame their own parents, blame blame blame.  Whose fault is absent parents?  The parents themselves.  Whose fault is all the rest?  It's 99% on the parents.  Blaming no longer cuts it.[/quote]

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