Any ideas on how to handle those cases?

As our society has become more and more consumer obsessed, the lower range kids feel low self esteem. For instance, my father in the 30′s did not have low self esteem because he was poor. Without a lecture, you know what I mean. I really don’t like people laughing about trailer trash. this hurts children.

Call me old fashioned, because there are areas where I am, but the family has broken down a wee too much. Boys need Dads. I don’t like all this single mom stuff. I have seen so many boys at the juvenile rehab I worked at, boys without fathers, with drug addicted guardians. But there is probably no turning back. People need to get it together, stay strong as a family.

Maybe that is a long way of saying, yes, it is about race and class.

Early childhood education and government funding for it is more important than many realize. Some say the last year of school is as crucial as the first. In that, I think the government should be involved as well as reduced or free lunches for low income children.

However, this No Child Left Behind Bush came up with is disliked by many teachers. Teachers need the freedom to follow curriculum they believe in, it can’t all be feed to them. My daughter’s sixth grade teacher was actually going to have to stop Shakespeare because it wasn’t in No Child Left Behind test. They teach to the test, which is wrong.