Comment by vitehozonage
5 months ago
> From the start we assume that the gifted deserve more from public school, thus we call them "neglected" when they seem to be simply treated the same.
If you have a group of animals where most of them are dogs but a few are cats, then use statistics to justify treating them all like dogs, that is not fair to the cats, is it?
The issue is deeper than that: it's that we take some singular conception of what a dog is, and ruthlessly beat any deviation from that idealized dog out of all the individual dogs. Which ends up being every dog.
Well said. The unusual dogs are just beaten more