Pinkytoo:
I have been involved in one of these programs for nearly 20 years.
Perhaps you misread my comments or you decided not to deal with the content.
There are countless inner city schools full of kids of the people who couldn’t comprehend the warnings in New Orleans before Katrina hit and then went “shopping” through store windows afterwards.
The schools that are populated with their kids are facing an enormous task. However, the NEA, the politically correct schools of education, the MSM, the government egalitarians and citizens in general are willfully blind to attacking the problems head on.
Head Start, school breakfasts and lunches, tutoring services, mentoring and a raft of welfare programs have not made a measurable dent. Washington DC has an enormous per pupil income, but physically decaying schools and not much to show from their educational programs.
Perhaps you would send your child to a building full of teachers trying catch up kids who attend irregularly or teachers trying to calm kids down or teachers who put the cooperative student in charge of working with struggling students, etc. Most parents send their kids to school to learn, not to become social workers or sit back and watch the teacher play games with a student throwing fits.
You have to divide to conquer this problem.
