21.4.03

NOT IN MY BACK YARD. Highered Intelligence is dismayed with a mom who doesn't want students from less-successful schools transfered into her daughter's class in a successful school. The mom might be disguising her real fears with her appeal to class sizes, but she does have a point, as Highered Intelligence notes: the act of sending a few kids from less-successful schools into successful schools might provide the proper example of success for those kids, on the other hand it introduces the bad habits the less-successful schools have instilled (or reinforced?) in the kids transferring. [Highered Intelligence's closing aside is interesting. Eerie it might be, but how else might one expose kids who have otherwise seen only dysfunctional habits to the habits of effective people?]

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