t. carney

ok, so........we spent the better part of an evening trying to convince child #2 that minimal effort on her science project will not raise her current grade out of the basement......and that children who appear to be teacher's pets may look to be so because they put in maximum effort......typing minimum effort into google reaped a scholarly research article done in cleveland, ohio....with blacks in shaker heights, an east-side neighborhood in an area that used to be ultra-affluent....and is now middle class.......much was said about why white acheivement ranked higher than black in the same district to the same income level parents.......and i mention this only because there were theories proffered about effort that rang true, even in our little home situation that shouldn't involve race.......and i promise that when i feel comfortable verbalizing my take on these theories in a public forum i will do so......if one takes out race from each sentence and exchanges class status.......if only life were simpler............