State of the Union Options

[impala454]

Is tonight at 8pm. All you Bush haters get your DVRs ready so you can slice up every frame and make some funny youtube videos!

[Melanie]

wait, now if memory serves me correctly, didn't you go to a private school? not that it matters in this conversation, but i am just trying to figure out if i got it mixed up.

and of course there will always b the small number of kids that go to college from these areas. i am just stating that them being encouraged to go with psat, sat,, act notices blah blah blah is not common. the ratio definitely shows it too. look at how many kids go to college from the various school districts. and the number of military recruiters in the ghettos. it's like predatory lenders. they are everywhere.

[Mommy]

wait, now if memory serves me correctly, didn't you go to a private school? not that it matters in this conversation, but i am just trying to figure out if i got it mixed up.

and of course there will always b the small number of kids that go to college from these areas. i am just stating that them being encouraged to go with psat, sat,, act notices blah blah blah is not common. the ratio definitely shows it too. look at how many kids go to college from the various school districts. and the number of military recruiters in the ghettos. it's like predatory lenders. they are everywhere.

yeah, I went to private school. What the hell does that have to do with anything? I still grew up in a rough area. No offense, but other than San Antonio being trashy and ugly, its not much worse than El Paso... it just has more people (only 500,000 more according to the links below...but El Paso has a lot more border jumpers than SA does). If you don't believe me... look here:
El Paso
San Antonio
Look at the percentage below poverty level and the percentage with bachelors degree or higher. El Paso is far worse than San Antonio in both areas.
Im not saying I had it bad, because I didn't. I grew up in a loving home, and my mom worked her ass off to send me to a private school (because I was white... which if you know anything about El Paso you know there is a lot of racial tension there... ESPECIALLY between the blacks and mexicans). But I can almost guarantee that we *BOTH YOU AND ME* grew up with a pretty good upbringing compared to others. You can't put yourself in the situation of some of these other kids. I worked in a school with 85% of the kids at the school having at least one parent incarcerated. Breakfast was served every day because otherwise the kids wouldnt eat. I worked with the 5 year olds. They would come to school with beat marks. They would come to school crying because the cops showed up at their house the night before to take a parent away. That's hardship. It doesn't matter if you are from the projects. It doesn't matter what school you went to. It matters what kind of home you grew up in. If the parents love their kids enough to push them to be a model citizen, then the kids will most likely grow up to want to do that.