I recall Oprah trying to work with girls in the cities gettos in obtaining an education and better life. She finally threw in the towel, and went to Africa to open schools there because the girls weren’t willing to work for what they want.
Consider that the attitudes she faced included those held by the education establishment where some want to teach what enhances race grievances rather than educate what opens up opportunities.
This was directly the cause for the failure of the Chicago Annenburg Challenge as run by Obama and other Ayers’ cronies. They could have invested in remedial education and practical skills.
Heck, for those completing remedial education here’s a pen old 1915 handbook that could have been combined with a surplus of old computers to teach basic programming skills concepts that could have really helped those kids: https://books.google.com/books?id=MB1BAAAAYAAJ&dq=workbench&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=1&pg=PA229#v=onepage&q&f=false
... but that isn’t teaching people social justice pabulum so....