<p>@ alfredneuman and Invoyable:</p>
<p>What you’re saying is inconsequential to my argument. I’ll concede that socio-economic status is the determining factor holding back certain groups of people (lets be honest: blacks). I don’t think this is entirely true, but i’ll give it to you for argument’s sake. Fine, so we spend loads of money for better teachers, better schools, better facilities, etc (even though we’ve already spent 40 Trillion since the 60’s). So according to people like you, we wold’ve basically eradicated the achievement gap. OK, so oppurtunities are now equal. </p>
<p>It still doesn’t matter. We’ll still have a Bell curve of intelligence. So even in your ideal scenario, we still have half the population being below average intelligence. Thus, stupid people (those below average) shouldn’t be wasting their time in school. They don’t want to be there, they’re a distraction, and their worth to society is in fixing cars and taking out the trash (honest days’ living BTW).</p>