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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 02 June 2011 07:27:23AM -2 points [-]

At the public high school I attended, more than 95% of the students in my graduating year went on to college. While the most mentally challenged students in the area were not mainstreamed and didn't attend the same school, there was no shortage of <80 IQ students.

Those two sentences are not very compatible.

Comment author: Desrtopa 02 June 2011 07:41:10AM 2 points [-]

The rates at which students progress to college have a lot more to do with parental expectations, funding, and the school environment than the intelligence of the students in question. My school had very good resources to support students in the admissions process, and students who didn't take it for granted that they were college bound were few and far between.

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