re: #250 researchok

Culture.

When the culture of success overcomes the culture giving up (and that’s a big part of ‘it’s not my fault’) the cycle is broken.

That’s why so many parents in poor neighborhoods try so hard to get their kids into private schools. They are desperate their kids succeed.

Indeed. That’s why if a new charter school is approved in most cities, its got 3 times as many applications as it can accept even before it opens. That fact is also a damning indictment of such area’s public school system.

(No, I’m not going to lay all the blame on that on ‘the unions’. It’s far more complex than that.)