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The first, what are we going to do with the unfortunate children whose parents, don’t, can’t or are too busy trying to put food on the table to do anything?
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Unfortunately, there isn’t anything we can do, short of hiring 14 hour per day teacher/baby sitters for all of them. I’m sure the other benefactors of such a system would love that (democratic politicians and unions), but obviously it can’t happen.

In some inner city areas, I think we can safely guess that more kids have parental issues than don’t. Single parents, addictions, money problems, long work hours, etc. They wouldn’t be in the inner city if they were in an ideal position. Throw puberty and gangs into that mix and the very last thing a kid will do is improve his grades.