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You literally could not be more wrong. The basis for any child's success is the family unit. If a child has awful parents the child will fail. It does NOT matter how much money is poured into schools and programs. The city of Baltimore spends more per student than any other city in the US and pretty much comes close to leading the world in spending per student. Guess what? The students suck and are failing. The kids come from broken homes and a broken culture, so they simply can't succeed.
Now imagine the opposite. An Asian family comes to the US with nothing but the will to succeed and make their children a success. They can have their children in the worst schools in the country with the least spending, but if they instill in their children the value of hard work and education and have a strong family unit to support the child, then the child will thrive. Parenting trumps everything when determining the success of a child.
So dumping hundreds of billions into schools and teachers will do nothing without good families.
I understand, but you say the solution is to have kids with their families- but then you mention that their families are broken.
What I'm trying to say is that we need to raise an entire generation, reprogram an entire generation. It might not be possible but we need to try something else. What's been tried until now obviously hasn't worked.
We need to spend a generation of training and reprogramming in order for that generation to raise their own kids.