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Originally posted by legion
My wife taught for a year in a rural school district (Mattoon, IL). The kids were poor, far poorer than their inner-city counterparts. They just don't get the same attention (or funding) because they are not as densely concentrated.
The biggest problem was that the parents didn't care about their children's educations. Very few homework assignments get done, and notes home to parents are unanswered, and parent-teacher conferences are unattended.
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Totally agree with second paragraph. And the interest of parents sometimes is not income related.
The rural kids I taught came from farms and ranches. They were realtively poor compared to the suburban kids, but there parents were not working nights or away from home as inner city parents do. To my mind the ranch kids are better off than the inner city poverty kids.