CB>  DT> Renchler (May 93) documents the negative effects of 
CB>  DT> poverty on learning.
CB>  DT> Duncan concluded that "there is little doubt that child poverty 
CB> is
CB>  DT> scarring the development of our nation's children."
CB>  
CB> Who knows what so-called "conservatives" will call this post. 
CB> When I suggested that there is a definite trend for one group of 
CB> people in 
CB> this country to hold back another group, I was labeled a "Marxist".  
    That the kids of poor families, particularly ones born to teen mothers, 
may have poor educational outcomes is true.  
    But that does _not_ mean there is a "plot" by the affluent to keep the 
children of the poor from succeeding.  It is much more likely the result of: 
being born as crack babies or with fetal alcohol syndrome, having apathetic 
parents who don't care about school, and poor parenting.
CB> More than race, poverty is the ruin of many kids lives.  There is a 
CB> group 
CB> of people that don't care, but they are just selfish, not 
    Selfish conservatives couldn't do 1% as much to harm the children born to 
teenage single moms as parental apathy and parental substance abuse.
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