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To: koan who wrote (212979)	12/29/2012 12:47:28 PM
From: epicure	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 541518

There are gun fights now- that kill children in their homes. My father was a hard core alcoholic- but he could still work. And you HAD a father, as did I. Most of the kids in Richmond don't. It's completely different now. Just look at the statistics from the 60's and now (or maybe you're from the 50's, when things were even better.) There were still blue collar jobs. The downtown hadn't been killed. Families were still relatively in tact. Before you imagine your brave new world, you probably ought to check out how much things have changed. No one doesn't believe people can't benefit from education- but people who know the area know that social services, health care, and safety are probably a place to start, because without basic safety, and some social skills, education really doesn't work so well. You can, of course, believe a straw man argument that people who don't agree with you don't believe in "education", but that's not true. No one believes in education more than I do, but I also believe you can't educate a child when their most basic needs have not been met since birth.

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