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 Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host

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To: Chris J. Horne who wrote (14155)5/13/2001 9:03:14 PM
From: Kirk ©Read Replies (1) of 42826
 
How many crack babies are born into rich neighborhoods? Fetal Alcohol syndrome?
Single Parents?

The schools in my neighborhood are great but most of the kids have two parents and many have a parent at home. You should drive by one of these "top 5%" schools and see all the "mommy wagons" aka "urban assault vehicles" that are parked outside. These wagons might cost a year's salary of many of the teachers... Parents are expected to volunteer in the classroom and they spend times in the evenings working with the kids. There is a sign out front about how much money has been raised so far (I should try to remember how much that is YTD... ). I know some eight graders made the trek across the country to visit Washington DC... Heck, I made my first plane trip before my mother did when I graduated high school! Closest we got to DC in the 8th grade in our fairly poor school district was a picture in the book.

Now drive over to East Palo Alto and you can have some very good parents but they might mow lawns in the day time and clean buildings in the evenings to work two jobs to make ends meet. Hard to do volunteer work at the schools much less drill their kids on homework.

Anyway, it is not simple or the problem would be solved. It has positive feedback and starts with the parents. Parents value education and the kids tend to do much better and then pass it on to their kids. Families that don't value education often do crack, drugs and/or drink too much... they often pass those habits on to their kids also. Hard cycle to break just as we saw with how Johnson tried to end poverty with public housing and welfare.

Kirk
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