Poor children are showing slower brain development than wealthier.

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  1. logical1

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    Actually Douglas MacArthur graduated first in his West Point class.
     
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    I agree. It seems to be the obvious explanation.
     
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    Good point. LOL
     
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    Education is the only way out for these inner-city kids too; but it has to be the right kind of schooling. They should be tested at an early age and counselled into the appropriate branch of education. Having a skill that you can make money with does a body good--unless of course these kids don't want to work. Then they should be cut off all social services.
     
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    I'd be willing to bet that diet and environment play a role in this. The cheaper and processed foods have who knows how many chemicals in them and if that's what your diet mainly consists of, it's not unreasonable to think it could stunt development. To what degree or by what mechanics, I couldn't say. Just a suspicion of mine though.
     
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    Please explain these studies, then:

    http://www.politicalforum.com/race-relations/418691-study-reveals-racial-iq-gap-genetic.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/showt...&p=1064281446&highlight=50,000#post1064281446
     
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    I think that is most likely a big part of it. But of course lots of other things too, which kind of makes me wonder at what motivated the study.

    The conclusions are going to all be highly speculative and all over the board.
     
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    Are we going to assume that wealthy people never eat processed foods or that poor people always do, though? If that's actually the case, I wonder if those processed foods serve as a comfort food for the poor as well, then. Pasta and other such processed carbohydrates are practically candy.
     
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    Well there aren't going to be any absolutes, but I think that the quality of food would be one vector that you'd find some differentiation on when comparing rich to poor. It wouldn't just count for what's eaten at home either, but also what's served at the schools and the social functions. I would imagine wealthier areas and private schools would have a better quality of food since they'd have more money to work with, but that too is just as assumption on my part.
     
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    they live in the same area?

    the most Asian populated states in the US are California, New York, and Hawaii, where as the most black populated states are Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia (the least Asian populated states are the south and the plains). Not only are they not living in the same areas, but they are mostly on opposite ends of the country.. Your argument is so nonsensical, you bring things about like single parents.. which also has its ties to poverty. If a single mom has access to daycare and a good schooling community, that will substantially help their child's academic scores
     
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    The study of American school children was taken in the US. It helps to read.

    And I didn't get the memo a German academic study is now meaningless due to geography.

    Good point.
     
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    We're both right made in the UK and published in Germany. You know they still got that Aryan Race thing going on.
     
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    One reason is that your great grandparents and the like weren't subjected to decades of pop sociology experiments that have dumbed down the generation X and 'millienials' in most public schools, no baseless social engineering taking precedence over learning, no quotas, no extra 'points' for being non-white, etc., etc. An 8th grade education actually meant achieving something up to the 1950's, which is as far a lot of people went, for economic reasons. With the Viet Nam war and the 'Great Society' programs came social promotions, ersatz pseudo-intellectual 'education' theories and seat warming all through the education system of most states.
     
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    If somebody on Stormfront posted 2+2=4, would that make studying arithmetic racist and advocating Nazism?
     
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    Someone somewhere, school staff your parents, or yourselves' trained you. You're lucky they did.
     
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    No; do you have an actual refutation to the study?
     
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    The facts is that most good students have a lower IQ, based on Japanese statistics.
    before japan tested IQ for many students

    --Example, if you can get a good mark in politics science, it does not you can be a politician, or you are good at anything. so only stupid people care about marks.


    and all WWII leaders are not good students. ( not even one of them).
    also Newton did not get good marks in school.
     
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    he was an exception.
     
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    Go back to my original post, I already did. All folks were born with a brain of limitless potential. Some flaws in the DNA cause a malformed brain and the wiring goes haywire, they are called crazy. Just look around you, there are smart and stupid people of everywhere due to their environment and culture.

    Wisconsin public schools increased their per pupil expenditures from $4,956 per pupil in 1998 to $10,791 per pupil in 2008.

    https://web.archive.org/web/2013070...aders-can-t-read-proficiently-despite-highest

    The state spends twice as much per pupil as the tuition at Messemer and what do they get for results? Poor results + abysmal parental participation = poor children showing slower brain development. Messemer is predominantly Black inner city students yet 85% go on to college, with millions in scholarships. So it's doubtful its genetics as the "study" you posted insinuates.

    Poor Asian children are going to the same inferior schools, yet they excel. You're taking a percentage and extrapolating it into something it's not. 2 kids living near each other in the same school district, going to the same poor neighborhood school, one excels the other does not....Why? Family unit and culture. Asians have a single parent household rate of about 17%, for Blacks the number is 67%. The Asian culture places a high value on education, the Black culture does not. To re-cap, Asian culture majority 2 parent households, value on education, excel in even poor neighborhood schools. Black culture majority 1 parent households, little value on education, fail in poor neighborhood schools. It's not that hard to see the causation........poverty and genetics ain't it.
     
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    Omar Bradley finished second in his class at West Point.
     
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    Because they haven't been brainwashed to blame yt for their failures.
     
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    So if poor children have slower brain development than their peers, does that mean the next Einstein is NOT going to come from the poor population?

    So they are not worth investing in?

    And their destiny is to become a low life looser?

    And social programs are doing nothing but just aiding in the growth of the surplus population?

    Or how morality is preventing us from putting them out of their misery? Okay, we don't need to do something so drastic, mental disability is not a death sentence. Well, we think we just need to pay a little more to make it all right but science says otherwise. The poor children are physically inferior to their peers. They can never recover.

    Well, they say the children might recover with LOTS OF MONEY going to prevent the brain deterioration during the critical formative years. But that's not going to happen. We all know that the budgets that would have to pay for programs to fix this are strapped for cash already. We just don't have the money or resources for this. And what societal benefit would we get from it anyway?
     
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    Wait, a person is lucky if their parents do their job? Huh? Don't you have low standards=)
     

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