this is absurd Wrote:
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> The budget problems are not caused by the hiring
> of consultants. To be clear, I don't support the
> hiring of these consultants as I do not think they
> improve academic results. But they are not the
> cause of the budget pressures.
>
> The cause of the budget pressures and the cause of
> the achievement gap are the same. Our immigration
> policies have permitted large numbers of
> cognitively limited (in some cases, very much so)
> to reside in Fairfax County who require an extreme
> level of services, both social and academic
> services.
>
> Results are generally dismal because no matter how
> much money is spent it is very difficult to
> educate students with 80-90 IQ's to a level
> anywhere near competitive with middle class and
> upper middle class white and asian students, who
> have much better cognitive abilities, no matter
> the environment.
>
> The cognitive ability problem is not taught at the
> nation's education schools, as they labor under
> the delusion that (even if they ever concede the
> cognitive ability problem) that social and
> academic programming can make a difference. By
> and large it cannot.
>
> I don't think that means we give up on low
> cognitive ability people. But surely we should
> acknowledge the enormous costs our immigration
> policies place on our institutions, and at the
> same time acknowledge that for the mass numbers of
> cognitively limited people, the SOL teach to the
> same level as the kids with 125 IQ's will never
> work.
So you're saying The Bell Curve was right?