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Cut black dropout rate to 15%, schools told
Toronto Star ^ | Jun 18, 2008 | Louise Brown

Posted on 06/21/2008 10:42:21 PM PDT by forkinsocket

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1 posted on 06/21/2008 10:42:21 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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Educrat idiots continue to confuse problems of socio-economic origin with race.


2 posted on 06/21/2008 10:46:42 PM PDT by Scarchin (Romney for VEEP)
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But but but...I though Canada was a racism-free utopia...certainly that must mean that minority dropout rates wouldn’t be high...


3 posted on 06/21/2008 10:47:29 PM PDT by RockinRight (I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.)
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To: forkinsocket
Class, today's word is useless. Try to use it in a sentence like this:

"Public schools are useless."

4 posted on 06/21/2008 10:49:42 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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Simple enough solution here...just hand diplomas to the top 85.0%. Edict officially complied with... That way those socialist rat educrats will not need to: a) take any responsibility, b) do any extra work, or c) care.

...and since they will be showing such a stunning increase in graduation rates, a raise would certainly be in order...

/s


5 posted on 06/21/2008 10:59:08 PM PDT by Reagan80 ("Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem." -RR; 1980 Inaugural)
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Good luck with that. The schools are part of the problem, but the larger problem is that getting an education is considered to be “selling out to whitey.” Black honor students are beaten and even killed for being “too white.” That is the reality of the true racism in the West.

And it goes full circle. What do I mean? The same victimhood ideology that dominates the public schools in North America just feeds the victimhood mindset. Good if your are a libscum seeking power who needs an ignorant and beholden population, but bad for the underlying civilization. Of course, the libscum want to wreck that civilization because it is another barrier to acquiring power, so it comes full circle twice.


6 posted on 06/21/2008 11:04:08 PM PDT by piytar
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Racist Canadian pigs.


7 posted on 06/21/2008 11:05:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone (When Shall We Have The Courage Our Founders Had? It's Time For The 2nd American Revolution.)
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To: forkinsocket

Must be the cruel legacy of Canadian slavery.


8 posted on 06/21/2008 11:30:21 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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Must be the cruel legacy of Canadian slavery.

That's gonna leave a mark.

9 posted on 06/21/2008 11:35:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
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To: forkinsocket

Until children have two parents who value education and a society where the ignorant are not constantly rewarded with social back-ups, there will be no reason for the drop-out rate to improve.


10 posted on 06/21/2008 11:43:43 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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“Canada's largest school board is poised to set tough targets to chop the alarming 40 per cent dropout rate among black students to 15 per cent within five years.”

Well, well. Another 5-year plan.

They'll simply put the offending students in a warehouse I guess.

11 posted on 06/21/2008 11:48:15 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: freeangel
Until children have two parents who value education and a society where the ignorant are not constantly rewarded with social back-ups, there will be no reason for the drop-out rate to improve.

The schools are working on that, with new programs to convert single moms to lesbians who will then marry one another and provide two or more parents.

12 posted on 06/21/2008 11:52:43 PM PDT by roadcat
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“Must be the cruel legacy of Canadian slavery.”

Nah.

The legacy of American slavery wafts across international boundaries, continents and undoubtedly out beyond our Milky Way galaxy.

It also crosses time so that in the year 3547, “persons of color” will still be able to claim they are being held back by the taint of the Cruel Institution.


13 posted on 06/21/2008 11:53:02 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: forkinsocket

I would be banned for saying what I think about his issue....


14 posted on 06/22/2008 12:15:10 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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You are spot on. I would perhaps add also the “victim mentality” and note that their heroes are rappers who were former pimps, drug dealers and the like. I have no problem with mentors, but I would also like to see some discipline added with that. Also, instead of infusing the schools with low expectations; I would raise the bar and every student would be “expected” to excel.


15 posted on 06/22/2008 12:21:23 AM PDT by WildcatClan
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To: forkinsocket

Getting a good education means getting well-educated.

As we all know, that takes years of consistent hard work.

For over 100 years, valid IQ tests have been given all over the world. Blacks always score lowest of all. I interpret that as saying, on average, given equal hard work by all, blacks would still come out at the bottom. That’s just a fact, but anyone who voices it gets PC’d into silence.

I have read about the defeatism over education on the parts of black schoolchildren, which has metastasized into the “acting white” taunts directed at successful black students by the dropout-type black kids. The belief that they can’t compete succesfully in school keeps many from even trying, and their disdain for school is a face-saving affectation which too many black schoolchildren adopt.

Socio-economic problems are the most important, but I can’t see any other way to get black kids educated than to afford mentors, etc, such as proposed in the article.


16 posted on 06/22/2008 2:10:27 AM PDT by Randy Papadoo
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Cut black dropout rate to 15%, schools told

how the heck to they plan to do that? 4 periods of basketball? put SMOOTH and heavy hitters magazines in the study halls

17 posted on 06/22/2008 3:23:24 AM PDT by Liberty2007 (Here's Savage's analysis of the POTUS race: The “Afro-Leninist v. the sarcophagus”.)
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“Simple enough solution here...just hand diplomas to the top 85.0%.”

I bet that will be in effect what they do.


18 posted on 06/22/2008 3:36:07 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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“Africentric alternative school”
“special programs tailored for children”
“personal learning coach”
“train teachers to be more sensitive to the community”

All these “solutions” assume that the problem is with the schools, and not with the students.
None of these “solutions” will work, and the brain-weak liberals will meet again to try more stupid liberal “solutions” that won’t work either.


19 posted on 06/22/2008 3:54:03 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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Every time schools are told BS like this, they end up caught in some scandal to cheat and inflate grades.

The principal of my (now mostly black) HS, was recently caught making teachers change grades on exams for black kids. The school was getting attacked for a ~50% black graduation rate and had no way out. Most of these kids never go to class and their parents don’t care. Of course the Board of Ed thinks it’s all racism.


20 posted on 06/22/2008 6:49:12 AM PDT by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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