Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

On 05/11/2024 01:18, rbowman wrote:

Being the new hire I saw a lot of the D section. They were ineducable. To
put it plainly they didn't give a shit and their parents didn't give a
shit. They were marking time until they turned 16 and could get working
papers. To further clarify, there was one black kid. The rest were run of
the mill white trash. I did have to relieve the black kid of his straight
razor. The white kids knew better than to play with their toys in class.

 
I have seen similar.
In the context of their lives and their parents lives education is
completely meaningless.
I had one such schoolmate in my class at primary school. His dad was a
pig farmer. All he wanted to be was a pig farmer. But he was in his own
way a nice gentle well behaved kid. He just didn't see the point of
learning Latin...