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[quote=Anonymous]The poorest family we knew when my older DD was in public school was also the most involved in the kids' education. They weren't DCUM poor, but really living in poverty: on public assistance, receiving FARMS, single mom headed family with three kids, one of whom was profoundly disabled and medically fragile. The two older kids were honor roll and perfect attendance all the way through MCPS. The mom had only one semester of community college, but she posted vocabulary words all over their apartment, supervised their homework nightly, reviewed mistakes on graded tests, and learned Spanish when they were in ES so she could help them in middle school. Honestly, I became a more engaged parent starting in primary school because I was embarrassed that she made no excuses for herself or her kids. Today, the two kids without SN are college grads. One has a Master's in Nursing. The other is in a MSW program.[/quote]
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