[TomGuy]

“We should challenge these students, we should challenge students in these schools to have advanced placement programs in these schools,” the former vice president said when discussing the need to improve America’s education system. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you cannot do it, poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”

Politicians have been arguing that for at least 50 years. It is nothing new. Then, they come up with some gimmick program that ends up being a failure. They complain. Eventually, they come up with another program that is also doomed.

And the cycle repeats.

[Jeff Chandler]

♬ Money makes the world go round ♬

[Teacher317]

“We should challenge these students, we should challenge students in these schools to have advanced placement programs in these schools,”

All schools have advanced classes... including Baltimore and their 5 high schools with zero students at grade level.

[jurroppi1]

Yet the poor disadvantaged are at higher risk for all kind and sort of failure or bad behavior. They want to have it both ways and the rubes eat it up.