It is a sad commentary when people mistake equality of outcome for equality of opportunity. Equality of outcome, by definition, means that someone’s opportunity has been artificially limited.
I can foresee the remedy. Whatever percentage of blacks that pass, that will be the number of whites that are allowed to pass.
Each spring a list will be created, and the list of whites will be trimmed from the lowest GPA until parity is achieved.
For example: if you have a 2.8 GPA but are unlucky enough to be in the bottom third of the list . . . see you next year!
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Blame everyone but the lazy students.
Ummm... hello. What is the school suppose to do? Are they suppose to shackle and chain the black students and FORCE them to do their school work - and to be in attendance each day, and to be dedicated students?
Ooppps can't mention chains and shackles in the same sentence as "black students"....
But in all seriousness - exactly what can they do? I have also witnessed the same comparison across the country (and here in our little local school district). Black students generally have a lower graduation rate. No amount of help, money, or resources thrown at the problem, it still carries through. If they don't want to finish school, they won't, period.
But I have also seen a trend in white students... That trend is for those who have the behavior disorder I refer to as "ethnically confused" (those that for some reason emulate the "gangsta" black culture) also are showing a decline in graduation rates.
So - what to do?
I taught in a rural school in TX, where we had many low income students. Some of them did fine, but many did not. The common thread I found was parents who did nothing to improve their children’s work ethic/grades/study habits/etc. When I contacted parents I got one of two reactions. Either, promises to see that they buckled down and studied (or turned in homework, I was appalled at the number who never turned in any homework, never did written reviews I provided and never turned in things we actually did in class). OR they would say, “I can’t do anything with him/her either.”
How can the school or teachers be blamed for this?
susie
The ACLU would be better off suing over the unconstitutional zero tolerance policies which contribute to this problem.