I think the projects atract a certain type of people. But there are those unforunate ones who have no choice but to live in a place like that. If you aint got no money ,what can you do?You do the best you can with what you have got.And mj you are right ,rich children have parents or money to bail them out. But even that dosent work all the time.

We have a subculture in this country that most people don't have a clue about. It is akin to a third world country. Drugs and crime in this subculture is the respected way to live. This has for the most part remained unchecked for years. As long as the subculture stayed mostly in one place it was tolerated. The police have always known this. Now it is spreading. All the welfare programs have aided and abetted this subculture. We have the highest crime,drug and children with the least education than most of the countries in the modern world. The good people of this country won't speak up because it is not politically correct. There is a saying that is so true, " a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link." Giving people government assistance for generations will always backfire.

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What are you doing to solve the problems?

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Originally posted by *~*M*J*~*:
What are you doing to solve the problems?

I see that as an unfair question, M.J. Sure, it would be great if each of us could become a Big Brother or Big Sister. It would also be great if everyone would contribute time and / or money to the Boy's and Girl's Club or the Salvation Army. Not everybody is able to do that.

What LEA-Digit-Digit may be alluding to is the madness of concentrating low income people into concrete 'warehouses' called housing projects. Being housed in high-density public housing may be better than living on the streets but it does serve to cultivate a certain mentality of helplessness. White, black, or otherwise, kids need to see people getting ahead based on education and hard work.

Mixed-income housing developments strive to address that problem. By giving low income children real life examples that they can emulate, it is hoped that we can help break the poverty cycle. Let the kids see that there’s something better to do than becoming a drug dealer or pimp.

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Originally posted by French Toast:

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Originally posted by *~*M*J*~*:
What are you doing to solve the problems?

Mixed-income housing developments strive to address that problem. By giving low income children real life examples that they can emulate, it is hoped that we can help break the poverty cycle. Let the kids see that there’s something better to do than becoming a drug dealer or pimp.

I can appreciate that philosophy, Toast, but is there any data to suggest that works? I would think you would just as likely to be at risk for the children who are not of the low income class imitating the behavior of the pimps and drug dealers.
I would want to see data that shows one group gets pulled up instead of the other gets pulled down before I would sign up for such a venture.

In Jefferson county schools, when they quit grouping kids according to ability, it did not bring the low performers up. The teacher had to teach to the lowest and the higher performers got short changed and were brought down.

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