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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119994)	12/29/2000 2:23:29 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 769668

ask how many special education students are enrolled in the school. What do you mean by "special education students"? Kids whose native language is not English? They had lots of those- -probably 50%. Eliminates that as an excuse for the poor academic achievement of a certain group in the US. Handicapped and retarded? Don't know? But are you trying to imply that, in spite of the enormous prenatal and pediatric medical advances in the last 40 years, and the increasing availability of it, we now have a higher percentage of mentally retarded children in the US than 40 years ago? Do you have any statistics to back that? Are you SERIOUSLY proposing that as an explanation? Look, why don't you just admit, at least to yourself, that you're wrong about this? Re: "Should we start learning Arabic?" I suspect the school has achieved a culture for academic achievement... as opposed to the language per se. But your point is taken. You missed my point. If this were to become true of the Islamic world in general, they are going to OWN you and your country. They're not whining and they're not taking excuses. They want performance. And they're getting it. Understand one thing: I am not in favor of maintaining the status quo in public education. I advocate major, sweeping changes in those public schools which, for whatever reason, aren't cutting it academically. Let me guess. You also want major funding increases, right? In spite of the fact that that is not the determining factor in outcome and that ALL it really does increase staff pay and the size of the bureaucracy. You don't improve the performance of a bloated bureaucracy by feeding it; that just makes things worse. Read the links in this post: Message 15084866

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