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Re:Bill Gates: End teacher bonuses based on master's degrees... by gf44 on Saturday November 20, 2010 @04:59PM (#1925444)
"Their home environment and neighborhood is so shattered that what they need most is a stable day-to-day existence shielded from drugs, gangs, and criminal behavior."

You do realize you're talking out of your ass right? 99% of inner-city youths don't do drugs, aren't in gangs, and aren't involved in criminal behavior. Nice way to stereotype them though.

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Re:Bill Gates: End teacher bonuses based on master's degrees... by yummyfajitas on Saturday November 20, 2010 @05:53PM (#1925612)
99% of inner-city youths don't do drugs...

If true, this means inner city youth do drugs about 50x less than youth in general. (Not asserting any precision in the numbers, just throwing out orders of magnitude.)

http://www.teendrugabuse.us/teendrugstatistics.html

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Re:Bill Gates: End teacher bonuses based on master's degrees... by SkyMarshal on Saturday November 20, 2010 @05:41PM (#1925575)
You don't have to partake in any of that to be adversely affected by it.
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