"strabo" wrote in message
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But it's simply not true that kids are not as smart. For example, the
decline in SAT scores that have been reported off and on over the last
few
decades have been accompanied by a higher *percentage* of kids actually
taking the SAT. More kids who are down the line academically take the
test.
It used to be mostly the top kids who even took it. They don't often
mention
that.

And the high college dropout rate reflects this.

How so? What are the comparative percentages? Do you know anything you're
talking about, or are you just making it up as you go along?


"Smart" is not appropriate. There are numerous tests and
surveys with which to make comparisons. I suspect the potential
is similar. The three key reasons responsible for today's low
education scores a incompetent teachers; minority performance;
inadequate curriculum.

Tell us what you're basing these assertions on, strabo. You keep making
these sweeping claims.

The performance and graduation rates of inner city schools are
deplorable. Some schools refuse to flunk failures and instead
pass them through graduation. Most of those that do graduate are
functionally illiterate.

Is that a problem caused by the schools, or by the parents?

Ed Huntress