I am sick and tired of hearing we don't provide academic opportunity for people. We have more opportunity here in this country than any place in the world.
If you want to rehash that canard, then let's discuss providing more athletic opportunities for white folks k-12 so more can get the 'opportunity' to play college football and basketball. Let's get some quotas for them. Then let's get offended if they drift off to the golf team and the synchronized swimming team.
“many of the underprivileged are not provided with the academic opportunities from pre-K through 12”
I’m sorry to say, it’s the reality. Our education system (and parents) lacks the ability or motivation to inspire children with the desire to learn. Inspire that desire and the rest takes care of itself. You can’t put out the fire of a passion for learning.
For many years I funded and coordinated a pre-school reading program. My philosophy is, if you create the desire to learn to read in children at an early age, they will love it and be readers the rest of their lives. If you wait until school begins and make them work to learn to read, they will view it negatively and resist reading the rest of their lives. I closed the program when Clinton’s Americore workers started the same thing at the local library competing directly against what I was doing. They lasted a short time and closed, but I was gone by then.