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A comment on How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco. Parent comment

Re:How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco by madeofpalk on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:46PM (#17433304)
...because the new demographics are significantly generically stupider?
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Re:How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco by tptacek on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:55PM (#17433332)
You can put a math prodigy in a room with me and I will have a harder time teaching them (anything) if their Spanish is good and their English is weak, because my English is good and my Spanish nonexistent. "Stupid" has nothing to do with it.
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Re:How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco by rayiner on Saturday June 30, 2018 @08:36PM (#17433436)
...because they’re being tested in a language their parents often don’t speak at home?
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Re:How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco by Gibbon1 on Saturday June 30, 2018 @08:19PM (#17433399)
Cause is easier to blame Mexicans and South East Asians than insufficient school funding.
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