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2008-03-02 Britain

UK eligious schools 'show bias for rich'

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Posted by lotp 2008-03-02 13:47|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Pooh. The complaints within the article are that the religious schools select against the non-moneyed and those students with learning disabilities. So, too, do the religious schools in the U.S. Their goal as a group is to give a religious education to normal to normal-bright students whose parents are invested in making sure they succeed. Sadly, there are more poor parents who, for what ever reason, are not capable, willing or prepared to ensure that their children succeed. Learning disabled students, regardless of their parents' willingness to push them, require more effort on the part of the school and the home to enable those students to succeed.

For that matter, religious schools rarely are prepared to deal with the 1-2% of students who qualify as intellectually gifted, either. In the U.S. intellectual giftedness is classified as a learning disability, because what those students need in order to be taught and learn successfully is so different from what normal and normal-bright students need that they are often enough struggle in the regular classroom.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-02 20:26|| 2008-03-02 20:26|| Front Page Top

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