[bryal]

> Much of the failure (or poor performance) of the public school system for low-income children is also a fault of the breakdown of family discipline and emphasis on education in the lower/poor classes.

You're not going to have as much time available for disciplining and raising your kids properly when you have to spend most waking hours of the day working multiple jobs, just to afford putting food on the table. The "breakdown of family discipline", as you call it, is just another consequence of being poor.

Seriously, there's just no winning for low-income households in the US.