Most poor families don't value education, so it's very hard to get children interested in school when their family actively discourages the involvement. Drugs

Most poor families don't value education, so it's very hard to get children interested in school when their family actively discourages the involvement. Drugs and crime have destroyed the family structure in all poor neighborhoods. Frankly there is a strong anti-education bent moving through the entire Republican party, educated people hare harder to control.