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It’s not a soft bigotry.

It’s a joyous, “you’re so great,” type of bigotry.

It’s a bigotry that slaps you on the back when you fail.

It’s 13 years of smiles followed by the abyss.

If you ask me, one should hold everyone equally accountable.

Pitying children is no way to help them, and one must maintain high expectations.

Some of the youth we serve will grow up to be far more valuable members of society than many of the adults who feel sorrow for them today.

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Martin Rochester illustrates this truth in his excellent book, Class Warfare, which documents the decline of rigor in education.

People are people.

Genitalia or skin pigmentation is irrelevant.

For more first hand accounts of this eventuality, see the following articles written by Ari Kaufman and Joshua Kaplowitz.

FP: Would you advocate a wholly private system of education?

Chapin: Never.

Sorry to alienate my fellow libertarians here.

I am definitely for vouchers and I don’t think they go far enough on their own.

If we want great schools, then the best thing to do is to create an income ceiling for those attending the public ones.

If the rich want to send their kids to state scho...

“We’re a heck of a lot further along than we were 30 years ago,” said Dr Paul R McHugh, a psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

In the past decade, scientists have come to recognise that Genetic faults It was long suspected that alcoholism was at least partly inherited because of its presence in some families and not others.

But studies of addicts in Baltimore, Japan and elsewhere have shown that methamphetamine users, heroin addicts and other habitual drug users share similar variants of dozens of brain receptor genes.

One day, scientists say, genetic testing could enable drug counsellors to warn parents if their children carry an unusually high risk of addiction, or tailor existing treatments to individual drug users.

But the ultimate hope, of course, is that the So far, the development of new addiction treatments has lagged far behind the basic science.

“There have been modest, incremental improvements...

''This is a first step in a revolution in the field,'' said lead author Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, a neurologist and psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., in a telephone interview on Wednesday.

''We are trying to get a handle on brain mechanisms for complex social phenomena.'' The finding has no immediate clinical implications, although it might eventually help lead to new drugs to modify behavior, the scientist said.

''I don't want this to be seen as gene that makes people violent,'' Meyer-Lindenberg said.

''It's naive to expect that you can give people some drug and they would be nonviolent.'' The work centered on the monoamine oxidase A gene, which is associated with impulsive aggression in animals and humans, according to studies of behavior.

A 2002 study reported that, among people abused as children, those who carry a particular version of the gene were more likely to victimize other people later in life.

The gene is used by cells to make an enzyme that breaks down serotonin, a chemical that carries signals between brain neurons.

In examining 142 people in the study, 57 had a version of the gene that makes less of the enzyme and allows more serotonin to be present Advertisementduring development of the brain.

Brain regions associate...