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misterferguson t1_j9k6lbm wrote

Reply to comment by WickhamAkimbo in Parents fume over Governor Hochul’s charter school expansion proposal | amNewYork by barweis

>shitty people like criminals and violent students as victims (of police, bad teachers, society, etc) instead of perpetrators and react by failing to protect innocent people from them.

Further to this, they fail to account for the fact that most people who grow up in those same communities with those same headwinds don't become criminals. I.e. the notion that criminality is predetermined given one's circumstances is clearly proven false by those who suffer the same BS and rise above it.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_j9kuipo wrote

[citation needed]

Please show us the proportions of kids who thrive in that environment and those who fall into the cycle.

This smacks of “I have a friend who grew up in the hood and he’s alright. Why can’t the rest of them be like that?”

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