# i cant' rite or due math buti shud grag, no- gradyu, no-get teh dipolma neway

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**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-rite-or-due-math-buti-shud-grag-no-gradyu-no-get-teh-dipolma-neway/343803 "2006-02-10T03:49:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-rite-or-due-math-buti-shud-grag-no-gradyu-no-get-teh-dipolma-neway/343803/101 "2006-02-14T16:25:22Z")

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Most of the African immigrants we see today are members of the upper classes- which like members of the upper classes anywhere are going to be well-spoken, easy to educate and palatable to Americans. It’s no more reasonable to compare them to, say, a Guatemalan refugee (who may never have had a chance to go to school at all before now) than it is to compare a kid from the failingest failing public school in the ghetto with a kid from a private school in a rich area.

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