If your IQ is 85, you’ll never master fractions or long division...fifth grade level. Making change is the very best that can he hoped for.
The average black IQ is 85. The average hispanic IQ is 87. That means half of them have an IQ lower than that.
And of course, it is sublime cruelty to forcibly detain young men and women with IQs of 85 or less in what amount to prison conditions until age 18, define “failure” as inability to master Algebra II, and restrain their natural affinities while claiming that it’s for their own good.
Inevitably, females get pregnant and males get violent. What else would you expect?
And it’s not racial, per se (although accurate ability measurement is very important).
I went to an all white high school with 468 kids on my class, 10% of whom (at least) were in what were called “non-regents” classes and the boys fought and stole and the girls got knocked up just like you would expect.
Now, make a school with a 12-year academic program where not 10% if the “students” are like that, but 95+% are, hire and fire administrators and teachers if they fail to “leave no child behind”, label the vast majority of the inmates (oops I mean students) failures, implicitly if not explicitly, and then you have what we have now.
When I was in college, I majored in math and worked as a paid math tutor for the college to tutor disadvantaged students. It shocked me that blacks were not only admitted to the college and enrolled in high-level math classes, but that they could barely understand fifth grade level math.
I worked hard to tutor this one black guy in his late-twenties, teaching him basic math because I told him he can't learn calculus without the basics. I felt bad for him because I thought he wouldn't survive economically. Then I asked him why he was there. He started out parking cars, saved his money and managed to buy his own parking lot, then made enough money to hire others. Freed up enough time to go to college to figure out that he needed math. Dumb, but rich!