She makes every rube White-Bread mistake in the books as she earnestly pursues her goal. How she gets through to them is by emphasizing that, despite their poverty and lack of resources, that they are not victims as long as they exercised what choice they actually had. She pointed out to them that by merely attending school and trying to graduate, that they had made a choice quite different from many of their contemporaries and were thus subject to ALL the ramifications of that choice. The students end up training her in return, but I won't give away the rest of the story. Suffice to say that this movie is a very good illustration of what I have been talking about.
Blacks are victims of Whites, women of men and all children of their parents.
We seem more interested in assigning blame for our problems than in solving them. Here's the deal, as Mad Max Perot would say. Ever since World War I, the War to End War, both liberals and conservatives have been busy as beavers assigning ever more responsibilities and duties to the state. Of course, in battling with one another over the spoils of this reallocation of resources and responsibilities from the people to the state, they have also repeatedly charged one another with all the failures of this abominable approach to governance. It is WE, the people, who have allowed this state of affairs to become reality.