Form math study groups. Do maths homework ritually everyday. Students are very susceptible to increasing incomprehension when they miss basic concepts in maths and science. It gets worse as the weeks pass. Many are doomed to lifetime failure.
Poverty is their destiny.
Unemployment their ambition. Mathematics is the great equaliser between black and white. There is no racism in Silicon Valley. Mathematics eliminates the advantages of birth and location. Do well at Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and your kinky hair will not matter in the best universities and job markets of the whole wide world.