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[quote=Anonymous][quote]To the other poster comparing blacks affected by Jim Crow to immigrants - That is mixing situations. A key effect of the racist past in America is that many blacks learned that [b]the normal relationship between working hard and benefiting did not apply to them.[/b] Most immigrants come to the US expecting that here they will find a relationship between hard work and positive benefits. If I come here as a refugee suffering brutality and death of relatives I have come from a situation harder than some poor blacks (ignoring the violence in many inner city communities). However, that hard situation doesn't strip my cultural expectations. Which I believe is the case for many poorer blacks.[/quote]

This bears repeating.  The expectations of all parties involved--student, parent, teacher, administrator, community--are all essential.  If one or two hold low expectations it's hard enoug, but if all are struggling under no hope, then there really is no hope.  Complete failure.  And as I recall, that was the state of DCPS in most (not all) of the city back in the 80s and 90s.  That's the DCPS that produced many of the uninvolved parents of today's DCPS. One hell of a vicious cycle.

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