cus they have useless degenerate parents

and is that their fault?

How would that be fair to the kids?

that's society's fault for failing kids

Exactly.

lol, no

it's their parents fault

It's actually the governments fault for not helping the struggling parents.

people reach there full intellectual potential in there early 20s

it's genetic

Well, I reached mine.

Time to retire.

those kids, learning less in the summer, it's because they have stupid parents

they will be stupid too

pretty much no matter what

it's not stupidity. i have another statistic

I mean... not that I'm against year round school

i have 2 statistics

did you hear what I said?

america has one of the smallest number of school days among first world countries

yeah... so...

yet we are the best country on earth

lol

That's a good one.

one of the most OBVIOUS solutions to the gap between middle and working class students is to shorten summer vacation

meh...

what if during the summer, it's not the enviroment but just kids returning to their natural tendencies?

the minute you get a moron away from school he's just never going to touch another book, or do anything to expand his mind

Fuck that, I played video games all summer.

or it coudl also be that the smarter kids just retain the knowledge better over the long term

Best summers ever.

maybe they are all playing video games all summer

Then I went to boot camp my last summer as a kid...which was pretty awesome.

some kids jsut retain the knowledge because they are more intelligent

Sorry...BCT.

It's like summer camp with other psychos.

...and guns.

It's annoying carrying an empty M16a2 everywhere you go.

@Arch_NME I object to that statement, because while some, but not all students, will commit themselves to learning over the summer, sure, not as much as regular school, but regular nontheless.

The equal opportunity thingy is bullshit.

@Deleted User how does that contradict anything I said?