So many issues w/the way this is presented here. First: Learning difficulties do not equal "low intelligence." One of the smartest officers I served with was functionally illiterate. Couldn't read nursery rhymes. He had a MS in electrical engineering.
https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1439353570994888706
Asked how he'd managed it: he could read equations like I read text—better, maybe. He'd developed a photographic memory. He asked classmates who were doing well to tell him what had been in assigned readings in classes that weren't math/physics/engineering.
A lot of the smartest, most capable enlisted people I worked with had some small learning difference that resulted in mediocre high school grades or an inability to sit through lecture classes in college. They enlisted when they fell through the cracks. Still amazing sailors.
I also don't like the implication here that middle-class kids somehow don't have learning differences. Higher family economic status often means one is better able to access resources & accommodations—but learning differences are found across the economic spectrum.
And while it may not have been intended, is the OP somehow equating race w/learning disabilities or low IQ here? B/c that would just be unsat.
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