[noobiangod]

"minority scores"

I wonder if those include the Asians and Indians with 4.0 GPAs?

[Gordongekko909]

I wonder if those include the Asians and Indians with 4.0 GPAs?

"Bush's home state of Texas - once cited as a model for the federal law - excludes scores for two entire groups. No test scores from Texas' 65,000 Asian students or from several thousand American Indian students are broken out by race. The same is true in Arkansas."

[mlc9852]

I doubt it - lol.

[Tulane]

My college roomate (from Sri Lanka) would respect this question!!! The "test-are-biased-whites-argument" drove him nuts (1600 on the old SAT).

[Betty Jane]

Each child's scores are confidential. But the percentage of success and failure must be known. The problem comes when you have a handful of minority students in a school. Let's use Asians, for example.

Say there are 10 Asian kids in a school. The results for the test go out to the district residents. The school hit an 88% passing rate. But three of the ten Asian kids performed poorly. It's not going to take a whole lot of detective work to figure out who the three are.

30% of the minority group are below grade level. The whole school could be penalized because of 3 specific kids, who happen to be minority. The vitriol those kids face could be horrendous.

By the way, I think kids should be tested, but the racial classifications have to go.