"not the kids faults"? come on now
I know a mexican guy from compton that had all those circumstances, and was a tag banger and in a gang, then one day he was like "yo, i need to get out of here and make something out of my life". So he applied to a JC in sacramento, moved there, got his life in order and went to the JC. Then he transfered to UC Davis. He did all this with ZERO dollars to his name. ANYBODY can do something with their life.