'different learning styles'

This is a phrase that ed-school leftists seem quite enamored of.  What exactly does it mean?  What does it mean to say that inner-city youth aren't stupid, they simply have different 'learning styles' from suburban white and Asian kids.  I've never heard any specifics as to how these people's 'learning style' differs from that of other people.  Moreover, I've never heard any indication that this different 'learning style,' whatever it is, is remotely as effective as that of other people.  If the only difference between one 'learning style' and another is that one is more effective than the other, you should simply ditch the ineffective one, n'est ce pas?

how suicidal are we?

How suicidal as a nation are we that we would subsidize the least successful among us to reproduce?  Our welfare system should be providing strong-- and successful!-- incentives for these people NOT to reproduce.  I think the taxpayer would be much more amenable to providing a reasonable 'floor' of income, housing, etc. and the social services to support it, if he could also be assured that the number of children would be limited to, say, one for a single mother or two for a married couple on welfare.  Then we could concentrate on trying to help these people and their children make their way in the world.  But if they are allowed--or even encouraged, by higher benefits-- to dig the hole they're in even deeper by having more children, the prognosis is unavoidedly grim.  We can't allow these people to reproduce us into being a third-world nation.

synthesis

My right-wing views on reproduction and my left-wing views on environmental issues meet at this point.  We probably can't have a planet on which virtually everyone enjoys a Western middle-class standard of living and still have seven billion people living on it.