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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Cool story bro.

The problem is you are too low brow to intelligently consume the information and reach a rational conclusion. You are the reason we can't have a rational discussion. You are the reason liberals will deny everything and fight with censorship, name-calling, and lies.

It is not reasonable or justifiable to claim this represents all black people. It is not necessary or proper to become emotional and turn to blind racism.

Your conclusions are not supported by the facts. And you should save some of that anger and disgust for your own behavior. It does far more harm than those kids.

[–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Except it IS supported by facts but they hide them. When I went to school and they streamed classes based on ability the top three classes in every subject were all White and Asian kids. Class 4 had all the black kids in every subject.

So what did they do? They stopped having ability based classes and mixed all the kids together. The purpose of that to set education standards to the lowest common denominator so no race stands out as under achieving.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, that sucks. But there is the belief that surrounding the dumb kids with dumb kids puts them at a greater disadvantage. Kids take a lot of cues from thier peers, if they don't see other kids doing better than them they don't try as hard.

But my point was that talking about this in that manner- screaming racial slurs- is incredibly stupid and counter productive. The feelings over facts crowd runs the school system and when you push them into thier shells with that kind of shit it becomes impossible for even other, far more intelligent and rational, people to make any kind of inroads.

I'm all about taking the schools out of the hands of people who take that approach. But that can't happen then the other side can show the parents OP's speech and use that to claim the "teach to ability" side is just irrationally racist.

[–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But there is the belief that surrounding the dumb kids with dumb kids puts them at a greater disadvantage.

Probably because most of the unruly kids who disrupt the class are also the gang members and other dumb kids who don't want to learn. Mixing them in with the intelligent kids does not prevent them being disruptive. What it does is allow them to interfere with the intelligent kid's education.