[Jim Noble]

The most urgent problem for the American education system has a Latino face. Latinos are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic minority in the country, but, academically, they are lagging dangerously far behind their non-Hispanic peers

Why is this a "problem for the American education system"?

What else would you expect?

Education is not something that is done to you, like penicillin for strep. It's something that students do themselves (with guidance, of course), to the natural limits of their interest and aptitude.

One look at Mexico, or Guatemala, or El Salvador, and you would predict that their citizens would lag substantially behind Euro-Americans, whatever the "system" does or does not do.

[Moltke]

Education is not something that is done to you, like penicillin for strep. It's something that students do themselves (with guidance, of course), to the natural limits of their interest and aptitude. One look at Mexico, or Guatemala, or El Salvador, and you would predict that their citizens would lag substantially behind Euro-Americans, whatever the "system" does or does not do.

Exactly! Some just don't have it in them. Liberals ignore the basic facts, and it all goes downhill from there. Like trying to fasten a screw with a hammer...