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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
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- Subject: Re: What A White Person Learned in College About AfAm Culture
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 11:35:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.081435.2354@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> turnerbl@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
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- # A perception is going around that poor balck students can't learn
- # because of the schools that they are in. This has been disproved
- # again and again by the waves of immigrant asian students from poor
- # schools who still score in the top of their schools as well as top
- # in the SAT/ACT tests. Students, not schools, make these choices.
- # It always comes back to the kid.
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- Well, yes, but the kids have to learn their values somewhere. It
- seems to me that parents have to learn what sort of support kids need
- to thrive in school (for instance, the TV is off on week nights) and
- parents have to be collectively strong enough to counter the lure of
- the peer culture.
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- David
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