There has been a black kid living with my neighbors for the last year or so and I finally got the story as to why. He was volunteering at the church they attend for a couple of years and then just stopped showing up. My neighbor, being the saint that he is, contacted him to find out why. Turns out he is one of thirteen kids and his mother claimed him as being mentally handicapped to get $600 a month from the government to care for him. He isn't of course, she just made him stay home from school to keep him stupid so he couldn't pass any of the tests he would have to take to keep the money coming in. She made him stop volunteering because he was learning too much and actually passed one of the tests. So now my neighbors are in the process of becoming his legal guardians. Really nice kid. My boys love him. These people are better than I ever could be.