[rdcbn]

A big component of this loss of fine motor skills is due to drug and alcohol abuse during pregnancy,especially in the welfare classes

Fetal drug and alcohol syndrome is epidemic in the black urban welfare ghettos and poor fine motor skills are one result of fetal exposure to drugs and booze

So are low IQ, attention deficit, poor reasoning capability, poor impulse control and poor anger management skills

[Mouton]

Unfortunately most of them seem to grasp the concept of operating a trigger or knife.

[EinNYC]

So are low IQ, attention deficit, poor reasoning capability, poor impulse control and poor anger management skills.

You just described most of the urban ghetto students I've seen. They get in their own way when it comes to academic success because of these things. Many times you have to coax them not to just walk out of the classroom or to remain in their seats. You have to ask them to open their notebooks and encourage them to read short passages. When I was a kid in school, I read everything, everywhere. You couldn't keep me from reading. These kids act like it's a death sentence to have to read a few passages and then--oh horrors!--write a few paragraphs. You have to specify that the paragraphs must consist of complete sentences, too. It's very sad. And you have to wonder how these kids are possibly going to replace US.

[redgolum]

My youngest was born at 35 weeks, after having the water break at 15 weeks.

We have had a battery of testing to make sure Little Bear is ok. She just had a check up yesterday. The only concern? She doesn’t color. My wife told the doctor that the last time we gave a one year old crayons, she tried to color the dog (and he let her!), so that one is on us.

Little Bear will throw a ball, put shapes into slots, and loves legos. All things the occupational therapist told us she shouldn’t be able to do till age 3 or so because of the stressful pregnancy.

I think the difference is we work with her, and don’t just let her lay on the floor watching TV. Same with he older sister, though they did say she had “Fine motor issues”.

The issue was she wanted to go to recess, and the test person said she could go once she was done. So she stopped drawing and ran outside.

[T-Bone Texan]

You referenced the ghetto class as primarily possessing these pathologies, and that is accurate and correct.

Another way to look at this is issue is “it is simply one more problem that can easily be fixed with white taxpayer’s money.”