text: Yikes, I got nothing to compare to that guy.     It's probably a bit unfair of me actually.  My kids went to a virtually all white school, which reflected the population.  The community was almost all employed by one of two major good paying corporations.   A very active council of churches as well as individual church programs.   Let's just discipline at home was very high, as was support and financing for extra curricular activities.  Never saw a school budget request not pass and the public school I think was one of very few non-union districts in the state.  Their were alternative Christian schools at all grads and home schooling was rare but not unusually so.     
   Pretty much a Walt Disney community. 
  
  I fully understand my experience is nothing like parents in tough urban neighbors or small communities in decline without much funding.   It is grossly unfair to compare my expectations to a parent in deep poverty, crime, assault......  Their first priority may be safety or ....