Supersize that SAT score?

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 04:43 PM 4/5/01 +0000, Justin wrote:
>W, what planet are you from? Do you really think it will fix the problems of 
>low scholastic acheivement of people raised in poverty by illiterate 
>parents, who have no job prospects and no future, whose friends or 
>girlfriends are pregnant at 14 and whose friends or boyfriend are in jail at 
>16, to make the school year longer? --jks

No, but it would substantially reduce the negative impact of these
environments on kids at a rather low cost.  It is like malaria drugs -
surely they do not eliminate unhealthy environment, but they substantially
reduce the risk of getting sick and are quite cheap.

So if the choice is between a radical but expensive (=difficut to
implement) or a provisional but cheap (=easy to implement) solution - my
answer is "the latter."  "Better" is often the worst enemy of "good" - as
history documented time and again.

wojtek