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In article <2be4jd$5tc@gap.cco.caltech.edu> hough@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Susan Hough) writes:
    >... the good teachers and caring principals didn't disappear;
    >you just have a mass exodus of students whose parents _cared_
    >about their education, and a mass influx of students whose
    >parents, for the most part, don't. Or maybe some parents do
    >care, but are unable to battle societal pressures that
    >devalue education. Before you all flame me for being racist,
    >let me finish-- there are enormous societal problems in our
    >inner cities & we want to just dump them into a public
    >education system and say, fix them. We sent our manufactoring
    >jobs to Singapore and Mexico so that you & I can buy cheap
    >consumer goods. We moved the affluent folks out to the
    >suburbs, where you and I sheltered from deteriorating
    >inner-city conditions. We offered up $4 minimum wage jobs and
    >no affordable childcare for poor women. Then we sit back and
    >wonder why inner city culture seems not to value human
    >life...

Close to the mark. When we offer money (AFDC) to women to enable the natural
urge to have a baby, thus ensuring a financial incentive to NOT have a family
and to not have a family in the first place (no welfare check if married),
creating an "instant gratification ghetto male" system, what else do you
expect?


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There are actually people that STILL believe Love Canal was some kind of
environmental disaster. Weird, eh?

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