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To: Teacher317

>>There is NO shortage of minorities in the organization that writes the SAT test.<<

I remember a classic example of a “racist” test question: (something like) “a grape is to bunch as a boat is to (answer: regatta).

The “analysis” was that most inner city kids have never seen a boat, much less seen a regatta. Well, I grew up poor in the barrio and I 100% guarantee I never saw a regatta until I was in college. How did I know what one was? I READ BOOKS!

I guess reading books is racist now (and it was then).


13 posted on 09/26/2011 6:34:42 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (California: Making Texas more Conservative one voter at a time)
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To: freedumb2003

“I guess reading books is racist now (and it was then).”

That’s actually the whole point of the verbal SAT - to see how well read you are.


58 posted on 09/26/2011 8:45:06 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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