So much of education is also a part of the social dynamic of the community. Speaking from personal experience, I dropped out in grade 9 and didn't go back to school again until I was 19. By then, I already had a kid, I was living on my own The thing that gave me success was my parents' expectations of me. My parents are both university educated. They always expected me to go to school and all of those things.
One thing that I've heard is a best practice across the country is engaging parents as career coaches and getting them involved right from the beginning of their children's education. One thing we don't see very much in our schools is parents' involvement at the school—going to parent-teacher interviews, and all of those types of things—which really is the core of how well a student is going to do growing up, despite all of the challenges in the community. Much of the programming that is needed to do the proper outreach just doesn't exist. That's one view.