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.

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

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                                                          - Warp

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