Comments on: What to do about America’s education gap http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2006/12/03/what-to-do-about-americas-education-gap/ Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:41:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: evicious http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2006/12/03/what-to-do-about-americas-education-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-7252 evicious Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:53:11 +0000 http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2006/12/03/what-to-do-about-americas-education-gap/#comment-7252 Well, what is your opinion on this particular passage? "Middle-class children become used to adults taking their concerns seriously, and so they grow up with a sense of entitlement, which gives them a confidence, in the classroom and elsewhere, that less-wealthy children lack." Perhaps poor parents take their children's concern just as seriously but they are not able to effectively address those concerns. I think the issue may not be "entitlement" -- it's not about whether we think we deserve something. It's more about whether we think we can HOPE for something. Well, what is your opinion on this particular passage?
“Middle-class children become used to adults taking their concerns seriously, and so they grow up with a sense of entitlement, which gives them a confidence, in the classroom and elsewhere, that less-wealthy children lack.”

Perhaps poor parents take their children’s concern just as seriously but they are not able to effectively address those concerns. I think the issue may not be “entitlement” — it’s not about whether we think we deserve something. It’s more about whether we think we can HOPE for something.

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