[AGL] election talk

[Carolyn]

It is interesting what your Mother noticed when she was teaching. Our generation. I think always believed there was a key to be found good health and a successful life.‎ I remember when at UT one od Silber's classes had an assignment to offer to fix up homes and apt in poor areas like in Houston for the tenants or owners. It was to be done for free, I guess to prove or disproof nice surroundings improve people's behavior and ambition. Much was made of the fact the intending recipients refused to have this done explaining they were afraid the landlords woud raise their rents or kick them out if it looked better or was improved.  
   Good family life does matter when you read bios of successful people there was if not two at least one strong person in a kid's early life to set them on a road to success.   Last year or so a study came out saying kids who grow up in an environment of stress, fighting yelling all sorts of insecuties had an almost impossible time of achieving the ability to concentrate enough. On school academics.

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Subject: [AGL] election talk

Here’s an anecdote. My mother (1898-1979) taught 1-6 grades in a NYC 
Bored of Education school for 39 years. She told me that in the first 
grades, her black students were just as promising as the non-blacks but 
that the black kids turned off that track somewhere around the age of 7 
or 8. She retired around 1960.

The anecdote implies that it is the social culture of blacks that is a 
great part of their and our problem. What is the accomodation the rest 
of the country is duty-bound to make? I remember Martha Hartzog getting 
a gig in a Fed. program to subscribe black families to magazines way 
back in the ’70s. The talented tenth of W.B.Dubois has become the 30% of 
high functioning black citizens. In principle, Trump should get >25% of 
the black vote, >35% of the Hispanic vote. The Trafalgar Group polling – 
they correctly predicted 2016 – has Trump losing Pennsylvania and 
Wisconsin but winning Michigan and Minnesota. Their latest published 
poll of Ohio (Oct. 1 to 3) has Trump comfortably over Biden.

They used to say ‘as Ohio goes, so goes the nation.’ Is Ohio still 
considered a bellwether?