Gotta disagree with this one. A friend of mine taught in Baltimore for a while - those kids never missed school because they got free breakfast and free lunch.
Ironically, this was in the paper today. “‘Loosie’ cigarette sales may be banned in Columbia.”
I did live in an area, while rapidly gentrifying, was right next to the ghetto. I would have to drive through the ghetto proper to get on the freeway,and you would see kids missing school all the time. I just checked our public school systems annual report, and the attendance rate for 2010 (the last year I could find) was 79.3%. So every single day, on average, 1 out of every 5 kids would not be in school. That is nearly beyond belief, if it didn’t come from the school systems own report.
After Hurricane Katrina, enrolling some of the displaced children in school was challenging because:
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Many of those kids did not know their real names; some of their parents didn’t either.
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Their parent(s) or guardians did not know what school the kids attended.
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Said adults also did not know the kids’ dates of birth or what grade they were in.
One thing I also read many times was that in the Ninth Ward, school attendance average 40% every day. That’s right, only 2 children out of 5 were in school on any given day.
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I’d like some citations for these statements.
Me too.
FOSTER parents who evacuated with their FOSTER children during Katrina didn’t always have the documents they needed to enroll their FOSTER children in new schools, and there was some confusion over who could and should get copies of those documents (like birth certificates and social security numbers) when the biological/legal parents could not be reached for consent to release protected information. cite: Children, Law, and Disasters: What We Have Learned from Katrina and the ... - Google Books Click on the link for page 8.
Of course, this got twisted around by racist assholes into tales of how stupid and ignorant the brown people are.
This entire thread is sickeningly racist. I’d expect better from the enlightened sdmb posters
I could be wrong but I don’t recall any mention of race, ethnicity or skin color in this thread. I may have missed it though.
Haven’t driven through many ghettoes, have you.
You’ve been here long enough to know better.
This isn’t just a ghetto thing. Scrap metal scavenging is huge. No matter where you live, scavengers almost certainly prowl your neighborhood every week on garbage night, looking for metal objects left out on the curb.
This can be a mixed blessing. Once, I left a broken fridge out by the curb on garbage night. (Yes, I took the door off.) The damn motherf*ckers stripped it right there! The plastic bins and trim pieces were scattered all over on my front lawn. It looked like a hurricane had just blown through :mad:
I didn’t really think it was. At least I hope I don’t live in the ghetto. But I’ve got the pirated DVD salesmen and car lots with giant barking dogs, Cash-for-Gold places, etc., so maybe I do, in fact, live in someone’s idea of a ghetto. I prefer to call it a working class city neighborhood. 
I’d say the same to anyone responding to PSXer. You should know by now that all he does is take the piss out of people.
I live in an apartment complex in a middle-class neighborhood, and we have metal scavengers in here all the time. There are a couple of “regulars”, and some of the residents even leave their returnable bottles and cans out for them; I assume they feel those people need the money more than they do. Once something lands in a dumpster, it’s considered public domain, so no, they aren’t stealing.
Do you plan on responding to the folks above who asked you for a cite?
… if bootlegged DVDs, BluRays and CDs are ghetto, then all of Spain is a ghetto. Do you think we might count as the biggest ghetto in the world? Does anybody have Guinness Book’s contact info?
There are official “top manta” lists, lists of bootlegged best-sellers (they’re called “top manta” after the manta or blanket on which the sellers display their wares and lists such as “top 40”).
You can tell if you’re in the ghetto simply by looking at the parking spaces.
If every space has a huge spot of oil, then you’re in the ghetto.
Oh, I knew what I was doing.
Or England. 