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Originally posted by Taualumna
I've noticed that most responses place a heavy emphasis on inner city kids, but rural kids often face the same problems. Inner city kids often get help and support from city based agencies but often, rural kids don't get the same benefits (see an earlier post for article from the Toronto Star) and sometimes score lower than kids from lower income urban areas.
Just a thought.
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At least around here, I consider many of the problems of the rural community to be self-imposed. In Oklahoma, our rural communities are responsible for our state having more than 500 school districts, many of which operate schools within 2-3 miles of eachother and have extremely small student populations, the inability to hire qualified teachers, the inability to staff the schools appropriately, etc. Despite that, their state representatives have really dug their heels in as far as redistricting for fear of losing their communitys' identities.
At least for my area, the rural areas seem to create their own problems where the inner-city issues seem to be frustratingly difficult to solve (and it's not for a lack of trying). My girlfriend, who teaches in an inner-city school was very idealistic at the beginning of the year, and by year's end she seems to be wondering how long she has to stay at this place before it's considered okay to put her resumé out.
Rudey -- how do you feel Bush's No Child Left Behind program will assist these children in at least being placed at a site where a decent education is available if they want it?
-- and honestly, I don't think that's the problem. From what I've observed, there are many kids that simply don't value education. I'm quicker to blame ignorant and uncaring parents than society (although in a sense, they're the same thing).
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