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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone with lots of experience teaching intellectually capable students who have failed only because their work and family responsibilities as first-generation, low income undergraduates left them without the time and space to concentrate on their studies, I would argue that until we can support these students in making the most of their abilities, public funding shouldn't be available to intellectually incapable students (e.g. people with Down Syndrome) who because they come from middle-class homes consider it their right to attend "college" (i.e. outrageously expensive programs like this one at Vandy: https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/departments/nextsteps/)[/quote]

Not sure why you specified Down Syndrome. Many of the kids in these programs have high functioning autism, often socially awkward but with higher raw intelligence than many of heavily packaged kids. It’s telling that some of them sail into FAANG dev gigs that when so many parents of “normal” kids spend years unsuccessfully grooming their kids for those positions. [/quote]

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