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Originally Posted by LLN
That is simply amazing, in 2012. Amazing. We are a really really high poverty school and I have not had a student in 3 years without internet and computer. Thankful for small favors, I guess. Additionally, most of my parents check engrade from work, as well. In fact they check it all the time.
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Most of our students parents do work, but at places where they aren't even allowed to use the phone, much less have access to computers. We also have a very large number of students whose parents don't work, or who are being raised by retired grandparents. Come to think of it, a lot of grandparents are still working too.
People don't seem to realize that, just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, our country is weakened by the pockets of poverty that we allow to disenfranchise our children from having the choices that other children take for granted. It's bad enough that these children are born to parents who often can't or won't provide the basics for them, which in 2012 includes internet access at home. To allow them to languish in squalid schools with unreliable 20-year-old technology and teachers who haven't mastered some of the basics themselves is unconscionable.
I guess it's easy not to notice when you never see it. Try spending an evening in the waiting room of a large charity hospital, as I did tonight, and you may get some insight into why some schools struggle to meet AYP.
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