What I find particularly significant is that the children of Trackton learned a highly complex language without any of the concerted cultivation or one-on-one coaching that middle class kids received. This is important because, as we will see later, there are problems that come with concerted cultivation that are now calling it into question (Rosenfeld and Wise 2000; Levine 2006). So it is not simply a matter of teaching these same techniques to working class parents, as many professionals would advise. The children of Trackton also learned essential rules of human interaction within their
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