[Harry Doyle]

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.

I, nor Eddy Creek Bay ever said that it was the sole reason. Tell ya what, if you and I had the choice of going to 1 of 2 schools in hopes of building a successfull academic team, you take the kids that come from the disadvantaged homes by and large and Ill take the kids that come from the other (not saying I don't enjoy the kids from the rougher backgrounds, because I do. As a matter of fact, I take great pride and enjoyment of wanting the ones that nobody else wants, but reality is also reality).

You aren't the only one who has been in those streets, looking for and maybe even teaching those types of kids.

Of course there are exceptions to the rule(s), we all went to school with screw ups that came from both backgrounds, but BY IN LARGE, if I'm betting on who will become successfull individuals later in life, I'm taking the kids the kids from the schools I mentioned.

I choose not to live in 'Never Never Land'.