Political Implications of IQ Tests [Split from Topic "First time to the U.K. Strange...']

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If that is so, Minister Finley, then it logically follows that having 99% of those children go to the same schools would result in basically zero progress (for them at least).

Correct. That is precisely what happens. My experience is this: 80% of kids, regardless of their genetics or the parenting skills of their parents, start out in life pretty normal and with at least a modicum of intelligence. They then get royally fucked-up by going to school with a vocal minority of little bastards, who are allowed to do whatever they like lest their fragile egos should be bruised. Simply allowing those 20% to fail in isolation - which they would do regardless - allows the remaining 80% to succeed.

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Remind me again how your full privatization plan for the education system goes.

Those parents who care not one jot about their children’s happiness or future life experience will not send their children to schools that serve the needs of parents who do.

Ergo those schools would be the cheapest, ergo they would be the only affordable ones for parents at the lowest economic level, ergo the education of each child would depend on its parents’ financial situation – which it already does, but in your scenario the phenomenon would be amplified.