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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by mmarq on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:51AM (#27568582)
Maybe it didn’t get worse, but it still demonstrate what’s the result and maybe the objective of these strict selection criteria: that discriminated minorities end up being excluded. Let it be children with foreign origin in Germany (which doesn’t stop after a generation) or whatever minority is being excluded from this very important American school.

And given that people leave high school barely capable of reading newspaper articles (otherwise Breitbart or the Daily Mail would even be a thing), I don’t see what this selection is for.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by throwaway210222 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:58AM (#27568613)
> that discriminated minorities end up being excluded. Let it be children with foreign origin in Germany (which doesn’t stop after a generation)

Except of course for the founders of BoiNTech: Uğur Şahin, and Özlem Türeci.

Included to the point they got German government-funded PhDs and then other native Germans helped co-found their company.

Perhaps you hypothesis needs more data and less feelings?

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by hef19898 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:38AM (#27569122)
Well, two people succeeding against all odds hardly qualify as data. Especially when every single PISA study tells you otherwise.

Unless, of course, you buy into all that dishwasher to millionaire you can achieve anything if you want but don't expect a helping hand BS.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by mmarq on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:31AM (#27569083)
The CEO of BioNTech was told to attend a lower level school, which wouldn’t have allowed him to go to university. He claims that if it weren’t for a German neighbour he would not have gone to a gymnasium. This is a form of discrimination.
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