“That’s really over thinking this.
Back 60 years ago and way back even farther, this was the norm, here, in the USA. That’s when kids were still skipped, flunked, and there were even middle schools where the bright kids did thee year in two.
Mixed classes and “mainstreaming” extremely handicapped children has ruined American education even worse than all of the PC crapola.”
They had Eugenics in the USA. It was the law in many states and only taken off the books a few decades ago though it hadn’t been used since the forties. Hitler was the reason it was stopped...yet he supposedly copied from us.
The thing about how America used it/thought about it and the Hitlerian concept, is that neither America nor England ( where it was also a big deal ) didn't carry it out to any extent. It was just talked about a lot; though those with mental incapacities were often sterilized here.
This article is from a British paper about Brit schools, so extrapolating it to America isn't really workable;especially since most schools, both public and private, with the exception of Catholic schools, no longer require the wearing of uniforms.
Great tag line. : )
Back in 2007-08, I was in a kind of fear that Shrillary could become the first female president, then Obama Drama happened - - -