What matters? Abilities or Connections? And where does social class fit in?

<p>Mini, it’s sweet to think that all these kids locked in these horrible situations will be saved by packing them off to boarding school, and therefore your spending prescription is the ticket. You might take a field trip to a juvenile lock up, a group home, or your local inner city classroom for a bit of a reality check. If you think money thrown at education can save many of these kids you are dreaming. Or, maybe you’re just fortunate enough to live in a place which escaped the Crack epidemic of the early '90’s (todays teenagers… poor impulse control, severe neurological disorders, some with psychosis or just violent- many with a host of learning disabilities) and the current crystal meth epidemic. Try hearing from a pediatrician about the prognosis for a crack baby. Some of these kids have had tens of thousands of dollars spent on medical interventions by the time they go home from the hospital, then receive tens of thousands more in therapies and treatment. Money can’t fix a 5 year old whose bedroom is a meth lab-- science and neurology and psychiatry don’t know how to put these children back together again, and you think the answer is Andover?</p>