On 30-1-2010 17:29, Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>    since, AFAIK, most black people go to the exact same schools as white
>>>    people do.
> 
>> I don't think this is necessarily the case. Children here go to close 
>> schools. Schools are funded by property tax.  Children of poor parents go to 
>> schools with less money to pay teachers and books than children of wealthy 
>> parents. Minority parents tend to be more poor, in part because they're less 
>> educated.  So it's sort of a vicious circle that needs to be broken. If you 
>> just say "teach everyone the same", it doesn't happen, because the money 
>> isn't there.
> 
>   Ok, maybe that's so. However, as it turns out, the perceived problem in
> the fireman test was related to literacy. One would think that literacy is
> such an ubiquitous subject matter in all schools, that at least *that* would
> be the same for everybody (after all, it's hard to teach anything to anyone
> who can't read and write properly), and if someone doesn't learn how to read
> and write properly, the problem is not in the schooling system.

Why don't you go find a job as a teacher in a primary school in a poor 
neighborhood? You seem to be better qualified than the current teachers.

>   So if the perceived problem with the test was indeed related to literacy,
> I think my objection stands.

I don't think so.

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