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People on this forum love to say parents just need to invest in home reading and get involved with fundraising.  But what happens when there are no books?  How do you raise funds from people who have none to give?  How do you get more parent involvement from people working 2-3 jobs just to pay rent?[/quote]

Well, you can't expect that someone will raise your kid for you.  If at home you don't instill that education a priority..  you can demand from the school all day long, but no one can make your kid succeed, no teacher, no amount of supplies, if you don't lead by example.

There are immigrants who work two jobs and have no money and yet their kids are aware that they must study to make it and failing is not an option for them.

Yet other kids fail and you don't even hold them accountable, it's the school's fault.

My white friend graduated from a majority black very bad school.  He wanted to break from poverty and it was easy for him to be on top of class because nobody else was motivated.  He got a scholarship to a decent college and now lives a middle class life with a great job.  [/quote]

Like I said, not everyone can be extraordinary enough to overcome odds stacked against them.  The mother and daughter in the TAL episode are just one example of people who fought against a school board that fought to keep them in a failing school.  The district that they left absolutely should be held accountable for leaving it in a fail state for 15 years.  Nobody's asking a school to raise their kids, they're expecting it to provide an education.  [/quote]

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