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Posted by JayMan on Thu Jan 5 10:25:16 2012, in response to Re: OP-ED: What Americans keep ignoring about Finland's school success, posted by SMAZ on Thu Jan 5 04:21:01 2012. The whole basis of the US education system is the separation of income classes, not education.No, that's not its goal, but it is an inevitable consequence of equality of opportunity. The more non-genetic barriers to success are removed, the more genetic forces play a role. Society has sorted itself along genetic lines, something that Charles Murray (co-author of the infamous book The Bell Curve) laments about, that the cognitive elite is pulling away from mainstream American life. Half Sigma goes even further to equate this new elite to the SWPL crowd, which I think is partially correct, but being a liberal, I don't particularly care if this group is unfamiliar with what's going on in middle America.... ;P The premise of the upper-class white American parent is to make sure that their kids, no matter how stupid, never mix with the riff-raff (of any race) at school or outside of it and they will do whatever it takes to make that happen, whether it's paying overpriced private school tuition, crippling property taxes for exclusive communities or sky-high real estate prices in urban neighborhoods where their local schools fall within the "right zoning". THAT is what nobody wants to talk about. I'll talk about it, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I wouldn't want my kids associating with lower-IQ people of any race, be they Black, Latino, Asian or Redneck. But, see above. |
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