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 ...
PATHETIC
Somebody tell me why this isn’t institutional racism.
Michael Gerson would be so proud?
I assume that 95% across the board would somehow be racist.
Woman hoards "30" Government Life line phones or Obama phones
Get the unions out of teaching and do the dam job.
But our dams are working... :)
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
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.
This could very well have HUGH blowback
racists
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?
Democrats should just go ahead and give blacks 20 acres and a mule.
Different passing grades for whites vs. blacks vs. Hispanics ?
School: Teacher Helps Students Cheat Because She Says They’re ‘Dumb As Hell’
Paging Abigail Thernstrom!
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?
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