[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Too many times when you try to bring the disadvantaged up to your level, they often end up pulling you down to theirs.

[catnipman]

“Too many times when you try to bring the disadvantaged up to your level, they often end up pulling you down to theirs.”

in fact, most of the time: look at the ghetto gang-banger fashion and killer rap music that white kids adopt when they associate with ghetto black kids ... it’s NEVER the other way around ...

one of my best friends from back in the day eventually yanked his kids from public school and paid to send them to private school when they started speaking Ebonics when they came home because their “English” teacher spoke Ebonics ...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

6. You’ve got it. DC is an educational jungle and it is hard to clean out a jungle. Been there, done that.

[zeugma]

Too many times when you try to bring the disadvantaged up to your level, they often end up pulling you down to theirs.

That is because destruction is much easier than building.