Posted on 02/22/2011 11:46:50 AM PST by Sir Gawain
HUNTSVILE, AL (WAFF) - The US Department of Justice says Huntsville's school system has too many racial inequities.
The justice department sent a letter to the school system saying it expects the school board to address district-wide issues.
[Click here to read letter (PDF)]
The letter also makes it clear the DOJ is closely watching the school system.
Some of the issues include course offerings, student discipline and teacher placement.
I went to school there as a yut, and I can say for sure there were schools you wanted to attend for a good education, and others if you want to slide through and not work for the grade. One would know which was which by the racial makeup. Right or wrong, that is the way it was in the late 70s early 80s.
Can’t win for losing.
Tell the students to leave the ‘hood outside of the school doors, and you get in trouble.
Let the students bring the ‘hood inside the school doors with all its attendant “issues,” and you get in trouble for the consequences.
They should shut the whole school and dare the Feds to do anything.
Naturally they pick on Alabama to stir up sh!t all over again. I detest these people.
The letter (quick read) points out disparities in the racial makeup of gifted students. You can call them gifted, but you can’t make them gifted. What does DOJ expect?
Schools, including the “educators” in residence, have little to do with the quality of education.
It is all about the foundational and utterly essential, nuclear family experience. “Good schools” are INVARIABLY in areas that enjoy a preponderance of solid, monogamous, heterosexual core family units.
If the arrogant racist Holder REALLY wanted to address “inequities”, he should look into the abysmal state of the the black family.
But then, there’s no money to be stolen from whites in doing that, is there?
time for the schools to teach down. I bet applications to private schools in Huntsville is up or homeschooling.
There is going to be a Redneck Revolution!!!
Which Federal circuit serves Alabama. I think they’d be amused at Holder’s lame excuse for an argument if it actually got to the courthouse. Of course you cannot make students gifted if they just plain aren’t, and while being black doesn’t mean being biologically doomed to being more stupid than whites, it does mean it’s more likely you’ll come from a home where health problems and malnutrition carry the day, and those things do have an effect on intelligence. A more sane overseer of the situation would ask school administrators to look for reasonable explanations before casting accusations.
Of course black students, their ability, behavior and culture has nothing to do with it. It is only the white man that 'causes' this.
As long as most whites continue to spout 'race has nothing to do with it' and run away from race the Marxist will keep cramming this crap up our rear ends until our whole nation becomes Detroit.
Allowing lesser-talented students into 'gifted' programs, and likely at the expense of some smarter whiter students. That's my guess, at least.
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
Yeah, a sliding “giftedness” scale. I thought separate but equal was a constitutional abomination, and so did the USSC. The not quite so smart black kids who were statistically in the umpteenth percentile won’t be able to keep up with the “gifted” program so they’ll have to dumb that down. Where does Holder get off with this nonsense?
The DOJ has gone after SC for having too many minorities in Special Education classes. Now the situation is if a black child is struggling academically, they can’t get the help they need. This is usually followed by said child distrupting the class because they can’t do the work, then the teacher is fussed at for sending said disruption to the office.
This is the Justice Dept attorney who wrote this notice sent to Huntsville Alabama school district....another leftist apparatchik. I see nothing she has done in the dreaded private sector
link
YLD Member Spotlight:
Allison R. Brown
By Jason A. Grant
In May of this year, Allison R. Brown, who serves as the Professional Development Chairperson for the Young Lawyers Division of the Washington Bar Association, was inducted into her high school hall of fame in her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. This honor is one of many accomplishments that Allison has achieved in her young and impressive legal career, and as seen by all that she has done, it is well-deserved recognition.
Allison is a 1998 graduate of Howard University, where she graduated summa cum laude, and in 2002, she graduated from Harvard Law School, where she was an articles editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and a student attorney for the Criminal Justice Institute. After graduating from law school, Allison returned to her hometown of Indianapolis and served two judicial clerkship terms. The first was for Justice Theodore R. Boehm of the Indiana Supreme Court. Her second clerkship was for the then-Chief Judge David F. Hamilton of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, who was recently confirmed to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Her experiences as a judicial clerk influenced her decision to start Judicial Clerk, LLC, which assists law students and lawyers through the clerkship application process and educates minority law students about the value of clerkships.
Additionally, Allison works as an attorney for the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Civil Rights Division. This past March, Allison, along with other dedicated individuals in the DOJ Civil Rights Division, were successful in achieving a settlement agreement with the Monroe City School District of Louisiana to ensure that the district complies with Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
In addition to all of her career responsibilities, Allison also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Mentors of Minorities in Education’s Total Learning Cis-Tem (MOMIEs TLC), as a legal adviser for the National Council on Educating Black Children, and she and her husband are proud parents of two young children. As a young lawyer, Allison continues to do work that the founders of the Washington Bar Association dedicated themselves to do: advancement of jurisprudence and making this nation a more just society through the legal system. Allison R. Brown is indeed an example of the “social engineer” that Charles Hamilton Houston implored us to become.
Contrary to the belief of every Liberal, wishes and good intentions, cannot change fact and reality. You cannot ‘legislate’ someone to be smart. You can legislate that they be called smart. You can mandate their grades in school. You can even legislate that they will be given smart jobs. But, they will still always be idiots.
BTW, Holder is a criminal thug. He is as racist and anti-American as any Black Panther, which is why he will not prosecute them. I am sure that he would much rather be their defense attorney. He is imbued with the misguided notion that he is 'making up' for years of Black oppression by Whites. While this may be good or bad, one thing that is certain about it is that he is the exact definition of a person who should never be attorney general. He is a radical activist with a racist agenda of revenge on White America. (kind of like his boss, only worse)
Why don't we just make Farrakhan the AG. How could it be any worse?
What does DOJ expect?
Silk purses out of sows’ ears?
OMG do you mean they are actually insinuating it’s the fault of the white people in the school if black kids aren’t as intelligent thus can’t make it into the gifted program?
A convenient "Great Satan" enemy that they can rally against so as to take the focus off of themselves . . . plus some fines and civil money penalties in the shakedown that they use to help fund their political allies.
We need to take our country back from the evil and criminally insane. . . .
FUDOJ
And FUEH. It’s not the white kids fault that your black kids can’t make it on the honor roll. Stupid IDIOT!
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