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This has it's own inherent bias. Poorer families have less structure and can make it harder for kids in those households to succeed academically. Sports at leas
by JakeTheAndroid 7y ago
This has it's own inherent bias. Poorer families have less structure and can make it harder for kids in those households to succeed academically. Sports at least allows another avenue for children of lower income families to find their way to college.
There should just also be more money for lower income academic students. But, that is far harder to monetize. Football programs generate tons of money, which then pays for the student to attend that school for free.
- zbentley 7y ago> Poorer families have less structure What? Citation needed. I totally grant your conclusion that there are big obstacles to academic success for kids growing up in poverty, but, if what you mean what I think you mean, that's a wrong basis for that conclusion.
- macintux 7y agoI’m neither the poster nor do I have any citations, but it does seem difficult to argue that a single parent household where the breadwinner is working two or three jobs won’t have less active supervision.
- JakeTheAndroid 7y ago[0] - http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/child-poverty-rates-and-family-structure.aspx http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/child-poverty-ra... [1] - https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/17/parenting-in-america/ https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/17/parenting-in-amer... I am not sure what you think I mean. But what I mean is poorer families have less support, and parents spend less time with their children. This can have cognitive and emotional impact on them impacting academic success and overall emotional maturity.