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Originally Posted by SackAttack
This is also an excellent point. That's not to take away from the resource issue I raised, but yeah - kids who are hungry, who don't get enough sleep because they live in a rough neighborhood, who have to get up earlier to take the bus to school because their parents can't drive them, or who have to walk to school and expend that energy (while still being undernourished), etc...those are all kids whose academic performance is going to suffer to begin with. Then you have the resource issue that limits the quality of the education they can absorb, so far as they're able to absorb an education at all.
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Kids that are hungry? Our poor are the fattest in the world. Waking up earlier than others is typically a sign of successful people. So I think you may be overstating that one. Walking and exercising is also misplaced here! I'll give you the rough neighborhood thing though...drugs and gangs are a huge problem for those who do not want any part of it.