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Originally Posted by TheNasty
I wonder why school systems have a problem getting teachers to teach in poor, urban schools populated by mostly black students. Hint, it has nothing to do with racism.
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The response to this, of course, is that it's not specific, individual oriented racism in the hatred of other sense of the word but rather the systemic, structural racism that's omnipresent in our society (I say that with as little value judgment attached to it as possible). That's more the problem I noted in my previous post, and, unfortunately, it's one that's a motherfucker to solve. So instead of trying to solve it, we gave up and said "we'll just compensate for lower scores/grades/aptitude by giving them a handicap." It works ok in golf. It doesn't do a good job of helping groups of people improve their situation.