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Sorry, the high school nerd in study hall at 6pm is not doing anything to hold back the kid skipping class to loiter outside the 7-11.
About 80,000 Americans died as a result of communism in Korea and Vietnam.
By giving up on trying to teach the kids outside 7-11, that is akin to holding them back.
By giving up on trying to teach the kids outside 7-11, that is akin to holding them back.
The great thing about private school is that you get to choose your school.
As with anything private, competition makes it better.
They offer scholarships to the brightest kids from poor backgrounds. What else do you expect them to do?
Neither of those wars were going on in 1985.
People choose crime. Crime doesn't choose them.
Poor children have plenty of opportunity to study hard and get a college scholarship. It's easier for a black kid from the inner city with a 4.0 GPA who has worked hard to get in to Harvard than it is for a Jewish kid from Boca Raton with a 4.0 to do the same.
We already cater to the "disadvantaged." They just don't take advantage of it. Sorry, but more handouts are not the answer.
Inner city crime has nothing to do with educational opportunities. It has to do with making poor personal choices, and bad family life.
Can you point to any place in the world that privatizing school has resulted in a better educated society?
You will never pull everyone up to the same level without also pulling people down.
Things such as job opportunities and good educational opportunities are ways out of poverty. Just because the person lived in a poor family structure doesn't mean they are destined to chose a life of crime. Opportunity is the answer.
Things such as job opportunities and good educational opportunities are ways out of poverty. Just because the person lived in a poor family structure doesn't mean they are destined to chose a life of crime. Opportunity is the answer.
No it's not. School isn't for everyone. Those kids could leave the 7-11, walk to the school, walk to class, and actually sit down and learn something if they CHOSE to.
Nobody is holding that kid back. He CHOOSES to slack off. Society owes him nothing.
Opportunity is the answer-and yet you would deny parents from choosing better performing schools. Wheres the opportunity there?
No one said anything about everyone being on the "same level", just about pulling up people.
No one said anything about everyone being on the "same level", just about pulling up people.
So productivity is bad? Liberals kill me, lol.
The kid owes no motivation to a society that does not try to lead by example. That kids failings will become a shackle and weight that holds the rest of us back.
Then you aren't really going to change much. You might have more going to school, but everyone will end up in the same place.
Right, and what I'm saying is that PLENTY of opportunity already exists for disadvantaged youths. You ever hear the saying "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink?"
That rings true here.
The opportunities exist. Some kids just choose not to take advantage of them. They choose not to graduate from high school. They choose to sell drugs or rob a liquor store. They end up in jail because of their choices.... not because of anything society has done.
I'm not interested in holding back the kids that actually WANT to study and WANT to work hard so that we can cater to these kids who don't have that ambition.
It's not fair to them.
You mean schools choosing better performing students.
The kid owes no motivation to a society that does not try to lead by example. That kids failings will become a shackle and weight that holds the rest of us back.
The key is trying to keep them in school, and schools given the proper resources to help high risks students. The latter is practically non existent.
Those same kids are failing now.
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