In chapter 15 in The Nurture Assumption, Harris poses several questions she believes reasearchers should be asking such as "how can we keep a classroom of students from splitting into two dichotomous groups, pro-school and anti-school?"
i don't think it's realistic that all children be pro-school. I don't think it's that simple, anyway. The U.S. school system is faulty- actually it's not; it's set up to fail students, at least a portion, and it works quite well. Consistently, schools in impoverished districts are lacking sufficient funding. As a result, some schools are without certain "necessities" such as books, extra-curricular opportunities, and enough good teachers. children are not given equal education but they are all compared by the same standardized tests (which, when consistently failed by any one school district, implies major "adjustments" to the district such as firing the experienced teachers and replacing them with new ones, and drastically cutting funding- putting students at an even larger disadvantage) That is no coincidence. The school systems are modeled from our economic system, which imposes a vast socio-economic gap. School systems reflect society and are tools to produce functional members of society. So, i think it would demand a restructuring on our economic system, built on even ground, to "keep a classroom of students from splitting into two dichotomous groups, pro-school and anti-school."
