We know what works to change cultures, but it has to be done from the inside. The Harlem Children’s Zone has been a phenomenal success. It started with teaching parents to just talk more to their babies. http://hcz.org/our-programs/the-baby-college/
I don’t believe that everyone should go to college, but the real problem is that so many poor kids are entering school already years behind their UMC schoolmates.
And @zoosermom thanks so much for your work as an LLL leader. Unfortunately some UMC whites that were part of our LLL council was dominated by UMC homeschoolers. My LLL leader though was great. We had women in our group who were breastfeeding despite serious opposition from everyone in their family and she was really great about being supportive of whatever they could manage in the face of such negativity.