[preachdawg]

I like what Bill has said. In a nutshell I believe he saying that your socio economic status should not cause you to lower your standards for what you expect out of your children educationally, and or behaviorally. Many of the greatest leaders out of the Black and lower class communities have been from the most humble beginnings. As parents we have to strive not let our own personal failures is life to not effect what we teach our children about who they are, and where they can go in life. Sometimes we have to just humble ourselves and tell our kids the truth that mommy or daddy have not always made the best decisions, and in certain areas of our live they shouldn't look to us as the best examples. Finally I would be doing my vocation [Pastor] a diservices If I did not say we as a Black community should get back to when the Churches in our communities were the hub for many of the communities developmental programs. Because when it is all said and done this issue is really about the inward souls of men and women and will ultimately not be solved as Carter Woodson would say by a "antiquated educational system".