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Date Posted: Fri, 11/22/02 6:52pm
Author: skin
Subject: Re: OK. chicken or the egg?
In reply to: lagirl55 's message, "OK. chicken or the egg?" on Fri, 11/22/02 6:14pm

>My kids' contemporaries [mostly white] see money as
>the roadblock,

With the colleges and universities - and community colleges we have here, I show my kids how they can get a college degree without having two cents to rub together if they want.


These white
>kids all ended up at crummy state colleges because

I have yet to see a school so sorry that a student cannot get a first rate education - if they want it. I know that there must be some out there though.

>With the exception of the Asian kids, I have seen kids
>already shot down in any attempt to better themselves,
>drawn down by the attitudes of parents and teachers,
>whose own attitudes are influenced by their life
>experiences.

But it only takes one of us to turn that around if we can inspire them -
>
>So where does it all start and how do you break that
>cycle?

we all start to work, not talk about it or make excuses - just get to work. I did not mean to start a war with my first post - just encourage others to find a way to win a small victory. None of us can win the war, or even a major battle, but one kid at a time we can do something - and that is winning the war for that kid.

Gotta stop calling the students I work with my kids - they would not like to be called kids....

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