Quote:The issue, as we've talked about before, isn't that there isn't "enough" money. The spending curve for public education outpaces almost everything else that we measure, but the results have been flat. The flat line is deceptive though, because wealthy districts improve while poor ones are declining, but much of that is about the student's home lives more so than the quality of the educational opportunity. Essentially, the problem is that it's very very difficult to fix education if we expect the schools to be the solution. The HOMES and FAMILIES are the real answer.

 

Winner, winner chicken dinner.  Just look at the statistics regarding children from single parent homes against children in two parent households.

 

Now we also need to face a few other facts.  Most single parent homes are the product of poor upbringing or yet, other children that come from single parent homes.  Most come from a life of "poverty".  It's a cycle.  It's more likely than not, that a young girl born and raised by single mother will herself become a single mother, and most likely at a young age.  It's also more likely that this hypothetical girl was raised in poverty and will herself, end up in poverty her whole life.

 

This isn't confined to any certain racial group.  In the inner cities it trends more towards blacks.  In the Midwest and the south it trends towards whites.  In the southwest it trends towards Latinos and native Americans.  The one common denominator is the lack of a strong and loving family.  So how to we address this and break that cycle?

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