Yea,that is hard to say. But I think it is a big part of the solution.
It has to be an all of the above I think.
More education dollars, and when I say that I mean more education dollars for counseling, social work, tutoring and life coaches. As someone in a school it bugs me that we are being left to do this, but with the right resources we are the best choice. There is a private org here that is run by a teacher that quit to do just this....they have targeted about a dozen kids. And those kids are doing much better so far.
Yes, more aggressively taking these kids out of these environments. If they are being raised by someone busted for crack or heroin or crap like that, just take them. If we grab them at 4 or 5 and put a couple in @whaler 's house I have no doubt they will do as well as his kids are. That's gonna be expensive to do.
And somehow, we have to create inner city jobs. Poverty is a huge part of this issue. I have NFI how to do that.