The Advocate page 6B
Stephanie Triche
3/4/2008
This article, while an interesting point of view, is a bit strange to me. The author questions the community and talks about its lack of support for young struggling students. The article starts off saying that maybe schools arent the reason for our childrens failures, rather the lack of community efforts are. He talks about how the majority of students in east Baton Rouge are in impoverished families or single-parent households. He continues to tell us that we the community should offer mentoring programs to give children a better chance at acedemic success. While I agree that we should help out those less fortunate in our community, i think that the auhor neglects to point out the lack of interest in the childrens on parental units. I think the author would have needed to do a little more research to make his point convincing.
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I agree. There can be many organizations out there, but that doesn't mean that the kids will go to it. Kids are more interested in hanging out with their friends than learning about the civil war.
It sounds like the author is writing this from a personal experience. His opinions sound like he knows what he is talking about, but he does not actually know the facts.
I also agree that the there needs to be a recognition of the lack of interests in these programs and solutions on how to fix that. But it is good to see that the author had a passionate view of helping kids.
This article points out a growing issue that a stronger community would better children. However, I do agree that a lot of the success of the child depends on the parents. I agree; I would love to see some statistics on this issue.
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