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I have been watching 20/20 tonight and it has me so moved
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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 469781" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>I'll keep my eyes open for a rerun of the program although I have seen similar but less moving shows. Just recently I watched a Diane Sawyer special on the families in Apalachia. Either during the Kennedy or Johnson administration there was great focus on helping those families. In 2011 it doesn't seem like there has been any progress. A few outstanding teens were featured in their journey to reach the outside and excel in the "outside" world. Two had good grades, avoided drugs/alcohol, with at least one getting a football scholarship. There was great community support for them and they both sounded so confident. Subsequently they both were released from college because they just didn't have the basics down, the study habits, and the skills to compete. They returned to their families (one going to work in the mines he swore he would never enter) and the other getting a fast food job in a neighboring town.</p><p></p><p>It drives me nuts when people put down the lack of achievement in minority groups, the use of drugs or alcohol and in some groups the high criminal rate. Becoming an Abe Lincoln is just no possible in the society we have today. If all your friends and neighbors live an X lifestyle...that is the norm. The bonds of neighborhoods and family norms dominate choices. Your "comfort zones" are set at such an early age and breaking free is rare. It is all so sad and in my humble opinion almost hopeless. I'm sure I'll be moved by the program you saw, Janet. I might shed a tear or two. I know I will carry the emotions with me for quite some time. How I wish I could be optimistic. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 469781, member: 35"] I'll keep my eyes open for a rerun of the program although I have seen similar but less moving shows. Just recently I watched a Diane Sawyer special on the families in Apalachia. Either during the Kennedy or Johnson administration there was great focus on helping those families. In 2011 it doesn't seem like there has been any progress. A few outstanding teens were featured in their journey to reach the outside and excel in the "outside" world. Two had good grades, avoided drugs/alcohol, with at least one getting a football scholarship. There was great community support for them and they both sounded so confident. Subsequently they both were released from college because they just didn't have the basics down, the study habits, and the skills to compete. They returned to their families (one going to work in the mines he swore he would never enter) and the other getting a fast food job in a neighboring town. It drives me nuts when people put down the lack of achievement in minority groups, the use of drugs or alcohol and in some groups the high criminal rate. Becoming an Abe Lincoln is just no possible in the society we have today. If all your friends and neighbors live an X lifestyle...that is the norm. The bonds of neighborhoods and family norms dominate choices. Your "comfort zones" are set at such an early age and breaking free is rare. It is all so sad and in my humble opinion almost hopeless. I'm sure I'll be moved by the program you saw, Janet. I might shed a tear or two. I know I will carry the emotions with me for quite some time. How I wish I could be optimistic. DDD [/QUOTE]
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