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It is difficult to educate a segment of our society that doesn't want or value education. IIRC, there was a study done in Harlem recently trying to break this cycle by spending enormous dollars per student to try to increase high-school matriculation and college entrance. It basically showed that you could increase minority college attendance by tripling your per capita expenditures but for the most part, they all dropped out of college instead of high-school. Think of what you could have had if you had spent those dollars on students who really were educable.