Max Security Prison's Debate Team Bests Harvard

[MentalGiant]

I wasn't thinking of extreme exceptions. I just meant generally.

That is, sadly, not an extreme exception. It's actually the norm in low income areas. Parents who can't earn enough to support their children or parents who are drug/alcohol addicted and neglect their kids. Children raising children (be it their own or their siblings). Young teens who have the burden of supporting their child/younger siblings/parent(s). Abusive/dysfunctional homes where teens are safer on the streets than at home. It is the exception to have good parents, functioning family, enough food/necessities and the ability to focus on things like getting exceptionally high grades/extracurriculars to get into college in many areas no matter how smart you are. There also isn't a lot of jobs, so these kids get caught up in crime and can't get out, even as adults.

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I also think theres a misconception that all is rosy and wonderful in the middle class all the time. Theres not poverty issues, but theres still pedophiles, abusers, narcissistic parents ect... that drive otherwise intelligent kids who may have had a bright future into drugs and street life. After all, it is SHAMEFUL to have an addict or criminal child. The rich simply disown them. And the parent would never admit they caused it. They may not come from poverty, but they end up an adult in an impoverished area, in and out of prison, living a life of crime nonetheless. And that ALSO drives up the number of high IQ individuals in prisons. Many DO come from the middle/upper middle classes.