| Craan said: I wonder if the real mafoo actually knows any poor people? Now I am currently in my last year of high school, it is a public school, it is okay as far as education goes, there are about 1500 students attending, it is overcrowded, it is a public school, it is in a rural area, and it has students from a wide range of economic backgrounds from very very poor to pretty damn rich. Now what I have noticed is that students from better economic circumstances tend to do better and the poorer a family is the worse the student is going to do now there are always many exceptions but my point is not that people who's family have more money try harder often they don't. Most of the students, excluding those that do really well or really bad, put out about the same effort and yet the students from worse socioeconomic backgrounds do worse. Why is that mafoo? |
When I was in University I took several sociology courses because (although their research was highly questionable and most of their conclusions were unfounded) there were lots of interesting observations that were pointed out in these courses. The underlying assumption of sociology is that the difference between people in different social groups is primarily a factor of upbringing and society and not based in biology.
Now, I mention this because one of the studies that was presented to us demonstrated that by the time children were 9 years old there was a noticeable difference between the ability for children of middle class and lower class backgrounds ability to communicate effectively and co-operate to solve a problem; and the worst group of middle class children were more effective that the best group of lower class children.
I don't know your school, and I can't say for sure, but I wouldn't be that surprised to find that the wealthier the background of a student the more likely they were to seek out help from teachers, students, family and (potentially) tutoring services at all levels of achievement. To a certain extent money would play a role in this, after all tutoring isn't free, but the extra help weathier students were getting was rarely related to anything that directly involved money.
