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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The project kids I knew only left their neighborhood to go Six Flags once a year on a field trip with our shitty public school. Maybe.
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And assuming Thurgreed is not engaging in a bit of hyperbole, these are kids in TCOTU. Extrapolate to kids growing up in Detroit, or South LA, or rural WV.
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They were often left alone because even in Section 8 housing, their parents had multiple jobs just to put food on the table. ......... But thinking that anyone in these circumstances can just decide to make their kids' educations a priority in the same way you might is crazy.
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My experience is parents who worked lots of jobs took time to keep on their kids. But those are 'rents that worked to get an address in a suburb outside Detroit. T is speaking of people with a Manhattan address already?
But move away from there. Rural WV parents being asked to drive 30 miles to get their kids to the community center to get the classes that lead to their kids doing well in the schools the parents didn't get?
After generations there are parents who are so disconnected from what schools can do, that to do the work to get, and keep, kids there is just not something easy to achieve. It might be those parents fault, or their parents fault, or society's. But paying teacher's more is not an answer to that problem.
