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Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals
tampa bay cbs ^ | 10/12/2012 | staff

Posted on 10/13/2012 7:01:34 PM PDT by tobyhill

The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race.

On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities, reported the Palm Beach Post.

The plan has infuriated many community activists in Palm Beach County and across the state.

“To expect less from one demographic and more from another is just a little off-base,” Juan Lopez, magnet coordinator at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Riviera Beach, told the Palm Beach Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampa.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discrimination; floriduh; naughtyteacherslist; quotas; racialdivision; racism; reeducationcenters
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1 posted on 10/13/2012 7:01:38 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

PATHETIC


2 posted on 10/13/2012 7:04:53 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: tobyhill

Somebody tell me why this isn’t institutional racism.


3 posted on 10/13/2012 7:06:25 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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To: tobyhill

Michael Gerson would be so proud?


4 posted on 10/13/2012 7:07:51 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: tobyhill

I assume that 95% across the board would somehow be racist.


5 posted on 10/13/2012 7:08:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: tobyhill
Well, the math quotas might be working. Monique could count 6 Obamaphones she was hording in her purse, plus 30 more Obamaphones at home, and could calculate that it took 5 minutes to get each new phone.

Woman hoards "30" Government Life line phones or Obama phones

6 posted on 10/13/2012 7:09:47 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: tobyhill

Get the unions out of teaching and do the dam job.


7 posted on 10/13/2012 7:13:58 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
Get the unions out of teaching and do the dam job.

But our dams are working... :)

8 posted on 10/13/2012 7:16:08 PM PDT by wastedyears (The First Law of Heavy Metal: Not all metal is satanic.)
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To: tobyhill
This is just wrong at too many levels

Unless, one predicates that genetic predilection for
superior or inferior cognitive skills are a rational concept,
but I thought that one was buried long ago

Imagine the uproar that would occur if
gender disparities were institutionalized

9 posted on 10/13/2012 7:16:38 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Mrs. Don-o

If there were no baseline of unequal achievement among groups, then different goals would be stupid. On the other hand if one group is performing poorly at say 50 percent and another group is performing very well at perhaps 90 percent, you tell me how they are going to be performing at the same level next year.

If the board wants to set standards permanently low for a group, that is a travesty. If the board wants to grant special privileges to an underperforming group, that is unequal treatment.


10 posted on 10/13/2012 7:17:50 PM PDT by jimfree (In Nov 2012 my 12 y/o granddaughter has more relevant&quality executive experience than Barack Obama)
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To: unixfox

This could very well have HUGH blowback


11 posted on 10/13/2012 7:22:01 PM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: SkyPilot
WOW! Unbelievable. I know the USF can't cover the cost of all the phones being given away so I'm also sure ALL taxpayers are paying for it.
12 posted on 10/13/2012 7:22:19 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obamacare, the final nail in the US coffin.)
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To: tobyhill

racists


13 posted on 10/13/2012 7:24:02 PM PDT by jjw
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To: tobyhill

This is so outrageous as to be almost unbelievable. All, and I mean all, goals should be based on potential not race. If nothing else, this is telling some groups that they are so stupid that they need help making the grade.

I equate this to signs that are in English and Spanish ... tells those of Hispanic origin that they are to stupid to understand English. Why not signs with every language on earth?


14 posted on 10/13/2012 7:25:50 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: tobyhill

Democrats should just go ahead and give blacks 20 acres and a mule.


15 posted on 10/13/2012 7:26:30 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Hey Obama! All you have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled us with a terrible resolve!!)
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To: tobyhill
I can't find the metrics on this.

Different passing grades for whites vs. blacks vs. Hispanics ?

16 posted on 10/13/2012 7:28:42 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ->The Jayson Blair administration)
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17 posted on 10/13/2012 7:29:47 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: doc1019
...this is telling some groups that they are so stupid that they need help making the grade.

School: Teacher Helps Students Cheat Because She Says They’re ‘Dumb As Hell’

18 posted on 10/13/2012 7:32:03 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: tobyhill

Paging Abigail Thernstrom!


19 posted on 10/13/2012 7:33:56 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: jimfree
Your point is well-made. We have to try for some improvement in every group, no matter where their starting point.

I wonder how it would look if they divided students' scores by sex rather than by race?

Or by nationality? (Polish, Irish, German, Lithuanian ancestry) Or by religion? (Cathoic, Baptist, MOrmon, Jewish...)

Or --- HEY! this would get people's attention--- by zip code:

33820
33822
33901
33930... and so forth

With all the different target scores for different geographic neighborhoods. Wouldn't that shake people up?

Why is it always race?

20 posted on 10/13/2012 7:33:58 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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