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bittoxic00 t1_jdmg6h7 wrote

He means if you take away all the good kids then bad kids become a higher percentage of students and the problem is worse (more visible). He’s upset he’s not teaching geniuses like in the movies he watched as a kid that inspired him to become a teacher and now has a difficult work environment

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Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdmg1la wrote

Same thing happened after the Civil War. Hardly anybody was actually punished, and Confederates quietly went back to their cities and became Mayor, Sheriff, Chairman of the School Board, etc. Jim Crow laws and the Klan really took off from there, and by the mid-1920s it had an estimated peak membership of 6 million. Eugenicists also got super popular at the time, and hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly sterilized under laws that we'd call proto-Nazi. And they literally were, because the Nazis copied some of these 1920s eugenics laws almost word for word when they took power in the 1930s.

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