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...said, 'you don't understand how remote Harvard seems to a Black student at an inner city high school,'" Williamson says...
Educational programs like the ones So mentioned, involving volunteer students from prestigious high schools going to inner-city schools, do not address the real problems any more than SAT revision. They help a very specific minority of "promising" students while ignoring the majority who will never get the same chances...
...offer to establish shelters for the homeless in lieu of prison time. Onetime Wall Street legal eagle and insider trader Martin Siegel asked for and received the chore of running a children's computer camp. Securities fraudster Michael Milken is awaiting court approval for his plan to educate inner-city youth, a proposal that appears to have contributed to his early release from prison despite an initial 10-year jail sentence...
...inner cities the scarcity of jobs and hope for the future invites kids to seek pleasure with little thought for the fallout. "You'd think AIDS would be a deterrent, but it's not," says Marie Bronshvag, a health teacher at West Side High School in upper Manhattan. Their lives are empty, she observes, and their view of the future fatalistic. "I believe in God," says student Mark Schaefer, 19. "If he wants something bad to happen to me, it will happen. Anyway, by the time I get AIDS I think they'll have a cure...
...says Margaret Pruitt Clark, executive director of the Center for Population Options, "that the streets are so violent that they are either gonna be dead or in jail in their 20s, so why not have a kid." Most striking, she adds, is the calculation that young women in the inner cities are making. "They feel that if the number of men who will be available to them as the years go on will be less and less, the girls might as well have a child when they can, no matter how young they...