| MTZehvor said: Sure, there will ocassionally be the exceptional student who is gifted enough to overcome those obstacles, but the vast majority of kids aren't. I've worked with low income public schools before, and trust me, the idealized "American dream" (or Western Dream depending on where you live) is not attainable for everyone. |
I think there needs to be a distinction between urban poverity (which has a strong cultural component and the debalitating drug war involved) and poverty independent of urban problems. You will find that people who are poor, but don't grow up in either extremely urban nor extremely rural areas have plenty of opportunites. In fact, the top ten students in my high school were nowhere near the top income-wise, half were poor like myself, with the other half being lower-middle class.
