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To: craig_eddy
They worry students from Spanish-speaking households -- 65 percent of Gilroy High's 2,300 students -- won't enroll in honors classes even if they can do the work because their parents aren't aware the classes exist and won't push their children to take them.

Uh-huh...
blank stare...

I suppose that they would prefer if the more "gifted" students be required to wear headphones that would randomly blair out loud noise to disrupt their train of thought so that they would not get too far ahead of other students and make the less intelligent feel bad.
5 posted on 07/09/2002 11:31:21 AM PDT by Dimensio
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To: Dimensio
Maybe those households should start speaking English like the rest of us and maybe then they would eventually be "aware" of the available honors program. This is soon worse than in Sweden where no grades are given to make sure we do not rank the students. I left Sweden for a reason, now I might as well return there because the grand old US of A is nothing more than a communist satelite nation soon.
30 posted on 07/09/2002 12:41:05 PM PDT by Jamten
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To: Dimensio
I think that Kurt Vonnegut's story "Harrison Bergeron" will eventually be a reality. The gifted will be forced to wear devices that make them less so in order to make everyone equal. Sounds like something libs would really go for.
43 posted on 07/09/2002 2:16:42 PM PDT by drew
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