Children from middle-class families generally are more successful in public schools than children from low-income families. Is the school system responsible for this problem, or is lower performance among low-income children a result of their home environment? The home environment has a big role in a child's education and if it is not supportive of the school environment, the student will not be as successful in school as the child whose home environment is supportive …showed first 75 words of 1742 total…

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