I mean, these are things that our kids see daily that are just there, and it's just unfortunate, but they're there. Well, for one thing, I'm one of the lucky parents who has a car, but 98 percent of Dixon parents don't. A lot of them don't even have enough money to catch a cab to go to a doctor. So when the child needs to go to the doctor, the principal has to go pick the parent up and the child up and bring them back. We've had parents who need rent money, too.
Teachers have to pitch in.
It's hard to compare a child with a single mom who's working every day with a child whose mother is home all day because her husband is a doctor or a lawyer or has some nice job. The Dixon mom is probably making minimum wage. If the bills get paid, food is on the table, she's lucky. That other mother can spend time during the day during things for her children. It's hard to expect these children from such different backgrounds to succeed the same.