Merlin Dorfman wrote:
> In ba.transportation Frank F. Matthews wrote:
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>>Merlin Dorfman wrote:
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>>> I'm not getting through, am I, Stan? I keep asking you whether
>>>we should consider this a problem (and if so whether we should try to
>>>do something about it), or just assume it will fix itself, or just
>>>ignore it. And you keep describing (accurately or not) the symptoms
>>>of what I believe is a problem (and one that has, and will continue to
>>>have, serious consequences for the problem), and whose fault it is.
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>>OK! I'll bite. It's the problem of the local community. Thus it is
>>the responsibility of the community leaders. If they complain that the
>>kids won't listen to them then perhaps they aren't the actual leaders of
>>the community.
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> You two really disappoint me. I was expecting you to come up
> with some cookie-cutter solution--break the teachers' union, or
> throw all first-time drug offenders in jail for life, and that will
> solve all the problems in a matter of weeks. But aparently you
> just don't see the continued economic failure of this large ethnic
> group as anything that we need to be concerned about.
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Be concerned sure. Want to waste any time trying to interact with folks
who don't want outsider interference certainly not. You wander around
driving into walls if you want. I'm not interested.
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