Unequal Schools and Students

So there are powerful, hungry men around the rich and influential Epstein. Is someone surprised? Despite his creepiness, are those men, by definition, suspect?

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The first U.S. moon landing attempt in more than 50 years appeared to be doomed after a private company’s spacecraft developed a “critical” fuel leak just hours after Monday’s launch.
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology managed to orient its lander toward the sun so the solar panel could collect sunlight and charge its battery, as a special team assessed the status of what was termed “a failure in the propulsion system.”
It soon became apparent, however, that there was “a critical loss of fuel,” further dimming hope for what had been a planned moon landing on Feb. 23.

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Unequal Schools and Students

In his pursuit of more equity, Chicago's Mayor Johnson plans to dismantle his city’s selective-enrollment schools, thereby reducing competition among students and rendering all of Chicago’s school kids equal insofar as they would all be shackled to the same underperforming system.

Johnson’s board of education assured Chicagoans that the reforms it is pursuing won’t shutter the city’s selective schools. Rather, the plan is designed to dismantle the “stratification and inequity in Chicago Public Schools,” the board’s CEO said. The advantages enjoyed by high-achieving students in facilities with discriminating admissions policies amount to “educational apartheid,” read a statement from the Chicago Teachers Union welcoming the reforms. 

Educational apartheid.

This, of course, is really a war on merit.

The problem is that Johnson thinks the stratification is caused by the schools and their competitive system. That misunderstands the basic circumstances of life. The inequality is in the people. The diversity that is a characteristic and creative force in the species has become a curse.

The Left has decided to attack something everyone knows and believes:

Some of the kids are better students than others. 

These better students usually also have higher ambition, more energy, and better motivation. The distinction that develops among the students might be enhanced by better education circumstances but the basic reason is they are better students. The only way they can be stopped is with more aggressive, personal suppression. And one can only imagine what horrible ideas these very limited people might come up with.