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 ...
Community activists? What does the POTUS think?
Yes pathetic. So are they going to adjust qualification tests for jobs and promotions to a lower score for blacks also?
12.5 million phones from all carriers subsidized @ approx. 10 bucks a month per phone.
Couldn't even give the business to a US firm.
Problem is, this has been flying under the radar for awhile and started long before Obama....back to land-line days.
Government employees are the only large unions in this entire state.
I now understand why my local Superintendent of Schools suddenly announced her immediate retirement.
Fire every damn one of these FDOE assholes!
Divide students by family income in $20,000 increments:
$20,000
$40,000
$60,000
$80,000
etc, and get your base scores and target scores accordingly.
That would be interesting, no?
This will not be allowed to stand. They will be apologizing for their temerity in a week.
The racism of low expectations. Liberal nirvana.
If I were black and had kids in school, I would be furious.
Well, it seems that the way to make everybody equal, is to make blacks feel very deficient and incapable, while Asians become the superior race. White and Hispanics should feel somewhat superior to blacks, but not by much.
Essentially, the way to make blacks feel better about themselves, is to call them mentally deficient. Nice!
A black woman I work with (my daughter works at the same place) has elementary aged children. My daughter said one day they were in her office and her daughter was trying to read (I think she’s in first grade) and was struggling with some words. Her mother told her she was “dumb as hell”. How in the world can a mother talk to her child like that and expect them to learn?
By the way, I have heard the mother read and she, too, is “dumb as hell”!
But don't you dare call any race inferior.
Most of the youngsters from Asian or African immigrant families are working their backsides off to get ahead. I have honors students who have only been in the country a few years but they're making headway, learning, and achieving. Big, big contrast. These kids simply don't accept a lower standard for themselves. I wish all our students would follow their example.
Uhh, go take a look at The Bell Curve. It is a rational concept. Which is a very politically incorrect thing to say, but it is also reality, and there you have it.
You are right, the evidence indicates that it is a rational concept. You can get in a lot of trouble for pointing this out, but it’s where the evidence leads. Look what they did to Dr. Rushton up in Canada.
Black Pride:
“It’s Official! - We’re the most stupid people in the country!”
OK,
So Asians make the most money, then Whites, then Hispanics and lastly Blacks.... is that alright then ?
of course not.
People will rise to what is expected. If you expect less you get less.
well, i guess there's always affirmative action...
Numbers be what numbers is.
If they were smart about this, they would do what police and fire departments across the nation have been forced to do - - give each of these democraphics a different test based on its stupidity level.
And every time a black voter pulls the lever for a Democrat, the racism of low expectations is exactly what they are voting for.
So screw them.
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