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To: freedom44
It's difficult to concentrate on algebra when your mother is planning to smuggle you over the U.S.-Mexican border soon.

It's difficult to focus on civics when you fear that your part-time job mixing animal feed might become full time. . . .

It also is hard to learn when your classroom lights are burned out. . . .

A hard-edged reality intrudes in the classrooms of Technical Middle School No. 8 in Apaseo El Grande.

Oh please -- if all this were true then children in US in the 17th, 18th and 19th century could never learn anything.

If a family values education, their children will learn. If they don't the kids won't.

5 posted on 01/03/2004 9:26:57 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark
Oh please -- if all this were true then children in US in the 17th, 18th and 19th century could never learn anything. If a family values education, their children will learn. If they don't the kids won't.

True.

8 posted on 01/03/2004 9:31:00 AM PST by mtbopfuyn
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