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Re: Public Schools
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> You must have attended a public school if you don't understand that geentic
> superiority leads to economic success. My older kid goes to a private school.
> The parents are obviously genetically superior to public school parents.
Stop wallowing around in determinism if you expect to get anywhere.
> > And the reason it costs so much to send a kid to private school is that
> > everyone's already paying for a more expensive public school thanks to all
> > the taxes.
>
> Push vouchers. What's the cryptorelevance of your comments, anyway?
Without vouchers, you don't say anything about the intelligence of your
test subjects; to a _very_ large degree, intelligence isn't genetic. Or
it helps for the first five minutes, but after that you're on your own.
"The world is full of unrewarded genius..."
> > So if I'm economically successful it'll change my genes?
> >
> > I guess this is the famous Russian belief in Lamarkianism in action.
> No, on the contrary, sending poor kids to good schools on scholarships
> does not improve their genes. They tend to become drug dealers.
At the private school I went to this was not the case. Only the spoiled
rich kids were that stupid, although by your definitions, they should
have been smarter than that.
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