[PHSForever]

Go walk into the homes of the students that come from Manual, Highlands, Beechwood, Male, Elizabethtown, Bowling Green, Beechwood, etc. and see if your reasoning behind this doesn't change. It will change, whether or not you want to face the facts, is another story.

I HAVE been in many of those homes. I HAVE seen students who, faced with the factors of economic disadvantages, lack of parental support in education, still find a way to raise above those negative influences. Likewise, I have been in homes in which the child has EVERY advantage known to man given to them by virtue of their economic/social standing, and yet they struggle to finish high school, and many times never go to college or finish college. Those homes you speak of in the neighborhoods of Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, et al? I've BEEN in them. I've ridden down the streets of West Louisville while searching for a missing child, talking to drug dealers on the corners who were just as interested in finding them as I was, but only because they needed a new mule. I've got nothing to prove to anyone here, I was simply pointing out, as I mention in another post, that basing Doyle's theory of success on kids having smart parents is ridiculous.