Please don’t let facts get in the way of a great narrative!
Here we have the Paper of Record saying they want to blame kids’ suspensions on a year’s exposure of barely elevated lead levels in water — levels which by the way probably put the average Flint house in the 90th percentile, but surely not the 99th percentile of houses nationwide. But national statistics don’t make a good story, you need a lens to present it through. So Flint might be that lens, but this is the media getting high on their own supply.
The real question is the issue of crime 50 years ago when lead was far more common everywhere. We’re crime rates higher in the past when lead was more prevalent?
The destruction of the two parent family probably has more impact on crime than lead.
Here we have the Paper of Record saying they want to blame kids’ suspensions on a year’s exposure of barely elevated lead levels in water — levels which by the way probably put the average Flint house in the 90th percentile, but surely not the 99th percentile of houses nationwide. But national statistics don’t make a good story, you need a lens to present it through. So Flint might be that lens, but this is the media getting high on their own supply.