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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (51345)	6/18/2002 11:26:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

I agree We live in a district where parent involvement is VERY high at some of the elite schools. I was, as you know, working at a low income school part of this year. Their science fair was much more what you would expect of elementary school kids, and parent involvement is very low. The contrast was very interesting. I remember in third grade one of my son's classmates made an elaborate machine, although I can't remember what the machine did. Tacked to the project were pictures of the kid in a welding hat working on it. Obviously the hat belonged to dad, and I suspect dad helped him a lot. It was an incredible machine, but made many of the other kids felt inferior and jealous. And he did win a blue ribbon for it. Perhaps the lesson that life is not fair, and that we all have different (and disparate) amounts of resources to draw on cannot be taught early enough. I would prefer to postpone that lesson.