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So what is the  high achieving immigrants from poverty stricken countries who are staffing our hospitals and tech firms  do right then to do as well as they did?.  That future doctor in rural India had far fewer resources available to them than any American kid today.[/quote]

There are those who immigrate to the US for the opportunity to send their kids to better schools and have a better life. They are coming for a very specific purpose and they make attending school a point of emphasis.

There are those who are immigrating out of desperation because of crime or lack of jobs. They come to the US for jobs but they seem to come for the agricultural jobs or other unskilled labor. I don't know why many of the immigrants from Central and South America don't put as much an emphasis on education. Maybe it is because many of the families that come with kids are moving from place to place following crops for picking. Maybe it is because the parents expect the kids to be working or watching siblings. I don't know why, but it is clear that there is a different expectation and that many immigrants from Central and South America are absent from school.

I know that there are studies showing that the generational poor in the US, Blacks in the inner city and white kids in Appalachia for example, have issues with attendance and dropping out. There is a cycle of poverty that seems to be tied with a lack of an education. The parents dropped out and can't help the kids with school work. Or don't see school as important because they never completed it. There are thousands of studies that identify the problem but no on seems to know how to address the problem.

Title 1 schools in FCPS offer free meals and they have smaller class sizes and there are more reading and math specialists on hand to help students and they send home free books. I am not sure what else these schools can do but there is still a gap and that gap is growing.

And I don't think the solution is to make things easier for the kids who are attending and whose parents are invested. All that does is handicap those kids while we continue to fail the kids who are already behind. [/quote]

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