Dude, I’d say you are a prime example of the US school system. In case you haven’t heard, the Human Genome Project has proven that there is no biological basis for the concept of race. The human cell has about 100,000 genes, only six out of the 100,000 control skin colour. And everyone has the same six, including the genes for black skin. Let me put it simply for you, Mr. James Watson Wannabe: the color of one’s skin has NOTHING to do with one’s IQ.

Oh and by the way? In a county of 125,000 total population – the one referred to in the article -I’d hardly consider any of the public schools “inner city.”

Asher: WTF are YOU talking about? Did you read and/or comprehend the article? Take your genetic racism on down the road.

I read the article, but unlike the person who wrote it I actually know what’s going on when I see stories of superstar educators rescuing inner city kids. As I said before, this is just smart people recognizing the sliver of talented kids in inner city schools and helping them utilize their innate potential. The faulty inference is that this sort of program is generalizable to large numbers of “at risk” youth. It isn’t.

There is a vast array of inherited traits in the human species and it is not distributed evenly among different populations; i.e. different races are genetically different. That’s not racism, it’s reality.

Asher: WTF are YOU talking about? Did you read and/or comprehend the article? Take your genetic racism on down the road.

I have been involved in one of these programs for nearly 20 years.

Perhaps you misread my comments or you decided not to deal with the content.

There are countless inner city schools full of kids of the people who couldn’t comprehend the warnings in New Orleans before Katrina hit and then went “shopping” through store windows afterwards.

The schools that are populated with their kids are facing an enormous task. However, the NEA, the politically correct schools of education, the MSM, the government egalitarians and citizens in general are willfully blind to attacking the problems head on.

Head Start, school breakfasts and lunches, tutoring services, mentoring and a raft of welfare programs have not made a measurable dent. Washington DC has an enormous per pupil income, but physically decaying schools and not much to show from their educational programs.

Perhaps you would send your child to a building full of teachers trying catch up kids who attend irregularly or teachers trying to calm kids down or teachers who put the cooperative student in charge of working with struggling students, etc. Most parents send their kids to school to learn, not to become social workers or sit back and watch the teacher play games with a student throwing fits.

You have to divide to conquer this problem.

All those stories you hear of the Ortiz’s rescuing inner city kids? Yeah, there is a percentage of inner city kids who have decent IQ’s, so what Ortiz does is find kids who have a 95+ IQ and, voila, magic. No, he’s not working miracles, he’s just selecting kids with some decent degree of innate ability.

Ortiz probably was gifted with a well-above average IQ, but what’s interesting is that when you visually assess all of those “superstar” Hispanic educators in barrios they all look very white. Ortiz is clearly well over 50 percent European ancestry, and the average IQs of different “hispanic” groups is directly correlated to their average percentage of European ancestry/DNA. Cubans are at almost 100, they’re around 85 percent European, while Amerindian Guatemalans are around 85, often more than 75 percent non-Euro.

http://www.unr.edu/features/08-09/dfs/

Silly boy, there is no “America” any longer, other than the historical accident of lines on a map. The left is out to conquer you, and to the victor go the spoils. There is a cagefight underway between right and left and only one of us is coming out alive, and, hopefully, you will comprehend this before your conquest and enslavement.

If by “fight” you mean to demonize all who disagree with you and call them your enemy and hate them, then you are no friend of conservatism… that would make you a fascist.

Demonize? No, silly boy, conquer. Conquer them, or they will conquer you. BTW, about two years ago I began openly calling myself a fascist, of the a-racial sort, ala Mussolini. Conservatism is an ideology, and one that has little value for the survival of the type of life in America that considers itself “right of center”.