&gt; <i>How can nothing have changed about the school?</i><p>When you take away having to deal with problems, good things happen. LOTS of resources can turn toward creating academic achievement. That&#x27;s how. In my town we have a scourge of overachievers who should be told to go fishing. That&#x27;s the extent our problems.<p>The real issue is what causes the problems in poor school districts: Is it being poor? Being black? Are the people who blame &quot;black culture&quot; right? Or is it how we treat the poor and black people, from a very young age?