On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:57:46AM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 4/9/2013 9:30 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> Because, simply put, the problem isn't the schools. The problem is at > >> home. Children who come from families that put a high priority on > >> education do well in school. If kids see their parents reading in > >> their free time, they will consider reading a viable leisure time > >> activity. If they see their parents watching TV, getting drunk etc. > >> that's what they will consider normal. > > > > Very true. But unfortunately many of today's parents won't provide that kind > of home environment, and if we merely dismiss their children as uneducable we > sustain that model. There are places where the schools have to take over and > do a better job. Detroit, for example.
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