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To: one_less who wrote (3753)	12/4/2002 4:26:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

The teacher who complained was not refering to an individual problem he was addressing a general issue. OK. I'll agree with that. The complaint was that a disproportionate number of black students are disruptive. That creates an environment that makes it quite difficult for everyone. It is a circumstance schools should have, and used to have, the power to deal with. It was handled by suspensions, expulsions, and reform schools (basically jails for juvenile offenders that attempted to continue their education while they served their sentences). Now all except the last are effectively extinct. It has become impossible for schools to remove the irritants that keep them from functioning. (Actually, not totally impossible; just very, very difficult. Multiple long legal processes that take forever and that teachers and principals dread.) And I will still maintain that getting educated is ultimately each individual's individual responsibility. No one except you can stuff knowledge into your brain at any effective rate.