5 Feet of Fury

Sailer explains to NYT: “The reason Gypsies in France (and most other countries) don’t get much education…”

is because they don’t much like education.

The comments are particularly informative.

The NYTwits found a representative Gypsy scholastic genius,* and whaddya know, she wants to be a lawyer specializing in getting bigger welfare payments for Gypsies! How sad that a brilliant Gypsy wants to use her talents merely for a fancier style of mooching.

Here’s mine:

A friend who lives in a gypsy-fied neighbourhood here in Toronto was informed by a neighbour, a teacher, that the gypsy kids never come to school on Friday, because Friday is “Stealing Day.”