[MayflowerMadam]

I’m guessing that most of the kids you mention came from families with a dad in the home. Too bad there aren’t more of them.

[Leaning Right]

> I’m guessing that most of the kids you mention came from families with a dad in the home. <

Actually, no. I taught in a very poor inner-city area. Most of the black families were broken. It was the grandmothers who kept things together.

I’d often have to call home when a black kid misbehaved, skipped class, whatever. If a grandmother answered the phone, I knew I had an ally, someone who’d be on my side.