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Geary Johansen's avatar

It's worth noting that the other aspect of the ideology is there are some solutions which they simply won't tolerate. In the UK, the London Challenge and other initiatives all but eliminated racial gaps in educational performance under exam conditions nationally at sixteen. One of the key factors in achieving this goal was the widespread adoption of far stricter school discipline across London, with the most excellent schools adopting the most draconian regimes. It seems those strict Catholic nuns who lifted an entire generation of American Irish up by their ears and into the middle class, after over a century of poverty and squalor, might have known something after all.

But try telling an American White Leftist that African Americans should have a choice between several of their local public schools and a charter school or two. Try telling them that, with the exception of the 2%, shunted off to high performing magnets, every schools academic results should be listed in league tables, with every parent offered a rank-choice for child placement- with the only criteria for which kids and parents get placed in the best schools in their catchment area, the kid's record of school behaviour and attendance. Try telling them that schools which fail consistently should be put in special measures, and have exceptionally high performing headteachers parachuted in to fix the problem- and if the situation doesn't change the school should be closed.

Liberals believe discipline kills creativity- if that were the case, why is it that almost every commercially successful creative is either a) incredibly driven, self-disciplined and hardworking or b) a thoroughly tormented obsessive?

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Spot on, comrade. In the words of the poet Nas, "You can hate me now, But I won't stop now, 'Cause I can't stop now, You can hate me now." Good soundtrack for the reimagined Hunger Games as the elites reap us as tributes: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/the-hunger-games-capitol-recasting-dc-swamp

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