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2010-11-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-11-10 05:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences

I recommend they study..... individual cultures and sub-cultures! Just so you don't bias the effort, begin with the Japanese. Then possibly Sweden or Norway, making your way to Germany. I would further recommend a study of not only how cultures exist and survive, but WHY they exist.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-11-10 06:13|| 2010-11-10 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Poverty alone may not explain the difference, but poverty and culture probably do, or darn near do.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-10 06:17|| 2010-11-10 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe this is purely poor parenting, My mother read us the "Little Golden Books" aloud as we grew, and when school time came around we could already read, and write. (Print, and cursive, The teachers were amazed, shows that many couldn't)
Mama gave us a "Jump Start so to speak.
We ALL(3) rated Genius and above, we considered it Normal.
We weren't oversmart, others were Undersmart or had NO preschooling So we effectively started school in the second grade

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-11-10 10:37|| 2010-11-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Obviously, the answer is racism. The article writes itself!

Posted by gromky 2010-11-10 13:37|| 2010-11-10 13:37|| Front Page Top

#5 There are many kinds of poverty, lack of income is only one. Lack of imagination, parental attention and lack of respect for learning are other kinds of poverty, much less responsive to infusions of taxpayer cash (the underlying goal of this article.) Learning to read is not rocket science.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-10 13:48|| 2010-11-10 13:48|| Front Page Top

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