[sit-rep]

I dare one to layout the following display...

Whites and Asians who listen to rap music? _________

Blacks and Latinos who listen to country and rock-n-roll? _______

I think the answer to number one will parallel the whites and asians who fall in with the failing blacks and latinos. I think the answer to number two, will show blacks and latinos who listen to country and rock-n-roll will be graduating in the top 50%...

Justa hypothisis...

SR

[cyborg]

My mother was playing Time-Life's 101 Classical Greatest Hits while she was pregnant with me. All of my life, I listened to classical,calypso, and country in that order. Gangsta rap addles the brain. I can handle only so much.

[bdeaner]

I dare one to layout the following display...

Whites and Asians who listen to rap music? _________

Blacks and Latinos who listen to country and rock-n-roll? _______

I think the answer to number one will parallel the whites and asians who fall in with the failing blacks and latinos. I think the answer to number two, will show blacks and latinos who listen to country and rock-n-roll will be graduating in the top 50%...

Justa hypothisis...

Are you having loose associations today or what?

Seriously, one's taste in music surely has no effect on performance in school. If there is any correlation between the two, it would be due to some third factor, e.g., black kids who listen to white music because they are adopted by white parents who live in wealthy neighborhoods with good school systems. But I know a lot of bright kids who like rap music. One of them is my younger step-sister, now a Senior in high school, who got a perfect score on her SAT and just got accepted to Penn.