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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It has nothing to do with innate intelligence and no one said that. You seem to want to lash out at everyone who says something that is not perfectly PC.
It has to do with the cumulative effects of not having the exposure and enrichment that many middle-class or wealthy white people can give to their children and simply changing the admissions criteria for a program like this is not going to fix the problem. They need to completely blow up the program or start thinking in a more creative way about solutions.[/quote]

What's the practical difference between "poor/black/Latino kids are innately too dumb to get into the magnet program" and "poor/black/Latino kids are too dumb to get into the magnet program due to their disadvantages"? Either way, you seem to believe that the only way to increase the number of poor/black/Latino kids is to admit kids who aren't qualified. Why do you believe this? Why don't you believe that there are bright kids out there who are poor/black/Latino?

If you consider this "lashing out" and "PC", well, ok. I can't do anything about that.[/quote]

Whoa. How did you jump from a PP who was saying that more needs to be done to help increase the numbers to accusations that there is a belief that there are no bright kids who are poor/black/Latino. [/quote]

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