Stupid Parents raise Stupid Children Options

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/09/time.cover/index.html

That basically sums it up.

I am sorry folks, but if you are too god damned fucking stupid to figure out how to get a highschool diploma from a public school you should just shoot yourself and be done with it.

I mean for fucks sake, all you gotta do is show up to class and you get a diploma, and you don't even really have to do that half the time.

It seriously just makes me laugh when people are like "Oh gee! This is a problem!"

If they're too dumb to graduate then let them fucking drop out, they can make a nice career outta shining my fucking shoes.

[GOB]

That relationship sounds spurrious to me.  I would venture to guess that the true relationship is that more educated parents are more likely to have books in their homes, and that more educated parents are more likely to raise more educated kids.

well, i don't have the book right in front of me, so any explanation i could give on here doesn't do justice to any specific information in the book. you would seriously have to read it (at least the noted chapter) to get all the details as to what kind of data he was using to form his conclusion.

i see what you are saying, though, and it's exactly what is discussed within the chapter. i really didn't get it much merit until i read everything and saw what he was trying to say. the general belief is that more successful (highly educated) parents spend more time with their young children teaching them to read and practicing on a regular basis than a less successful (lesser educated) parent. while this may be true, the children of those surveyed scored no differently based on that variable alone; the differences came in whether or not there were books available in these homes, showing that the actual reading wasn't the factor everyone had thought, the availability was.

it gets moderately complicated when it talks about how the school your kids go to makes no difference in the end because you'll learn if you want to learn. there was an example of how in one city neighborhood, there was a limited chance of families getting to send their kids to a "better" school in the suburbs. of the families that applied, there was no difference in performance of the kids who got to atttend the "better" school and the ones who were stuck in the ghetto; it's just there to show that the people who applied, mostly lower-income families, were interested in furthering their education and becomming successful, and the crappy school wasn't going to hold them back.

it talks about a lot of other stuff, much more than the 2 things i mentioned here. it's kinda difficult to explain. the book explains everything really well.