Like Schools Everywhere, The Nation’s Report Card Is Dumbing Down To Hide Racial Disparities

The Federalist ^ | October 21, 2020 | Auguste Meyrat

[libertylover]

Watering down the tests actually hurts blacks in the long run.

[bk1000]

NAEP

N****s Ain’t Educated Properly?

[1Old Pro]

School choice, competition, merit pay. Otherwise we keep getting lousy results that cost too much.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Attendance diplomas are next.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Gotta keep the plantation populated somehow.

[dfwgator]

Two ways to make people equal: Lift people up, or take people down. It’s clear the approach our education system is taking.

[lgjhn23]

“...Watering down the tests actually hurts blacks in the long run....”

That it does, but really it hurts everybody.
When I had my HVAC business, I would normally hire summer help out of the local trade school with the understanding that it was on a 2-week temporary basis based on performance. I didn’t care what race they were, and/or what their grades were in school. IF they couldn’t correctly wire a thermostat after two weeks of being shown/explained with direct on-the-job training by a seasoned tech and understand how it functioned, they were of no use to my business, and I’d cut em loose and go get another one. The ones that understood it were my future potential candidates for permanent employment once they were out of school.
FWIW, many of em would just quit after the first or second day on the job as they couldn’t take working outside in the heat all day. Seems they all wanted computer desk jobs. This was not the industry for them...LOL

[DownInFlames]

No, breathing diplomas.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Reading well seems mysterious and arbitrary, depending more on students’ background and personal habits than on anything they learn in class.

That's hardly mysterious and arbitrary - do the parents make the kids read books or do they let them watch modern Leftist-themed cartoons all day?

[pinkandgreenmom]

For reasons I cannot fathom half the time, at 50 I have decided to go back to school and get a masters in elementary education (my undergrad degree is in international finance and I was a practicing corporate mergers and acquisitions attorney for 8 years prior to having kids). The main goal in every class I have taken so far is diversity and cultural sensitivity. Between that and the emphasis on “social constructivist learning” and “it isn’t the answer that matters but the process by which a student got there” I am thoroughly disgusted.

[Chgogal]

American universities need to be “defunded” and “reimagined”.

[Grampa Dave]

This is why the good private schools have very long waiting lists of children, whose parents will pay anything to get them into those private schools. Those good private schools can basically charge whatever they want to charge.

Our California Grand kids had excellent k-8 public schools.

Their 9-12 public schools went to hell by allowing anyone with a pulse and a minority status to come to that school.

One of their mother’s relatives had been through this B$ in the east coast with his kids. So, he footed a large part of the cost, and we helped.

That enabled those kids to basically get into good colleges.
One had to go to an out of state school as a white kid who made a single b in her entire life. She got a 25$K per year scholarship at an excellent STEM school back east. Her bro was offered to attend several out of state and instate engineering schools. I told him to make up a binder of his offers to show the Cali interviewers. He was then accepted by the school he want to go to.

He has several friends from the local public school taking online basic courses from the local community colleges.

[hanamizu]

Attendance diplomas are next.

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In some school systems that ship sailed long ago, except now some don’t even require much in the way of attendance.

[MarkL]

The Kansas City MO Public School district went almost a decade without being able to meet minimum state requirements, and have had "provisional accreditation."

They did finally meet full accreditation in 2016, but last year it came out that the school district had been falsifying their records, and as of 2019, they lost their accreditation AGAIN!

You may remember that 60 Minutes did a story on a school desegregation case in KC, that included a federal judge imposing taxes on the taxpayers (eventually reversed by the SCOTUS, but the judge then threatened to hold the members of the city council in contempt if they didn't re-enact the tax.) More than One BILLION dollars were spent over the next decade or so, and the desegregation goals, let alone the hope of improving education for students were never met.

Mark

[mware]

The schools in Newark NJ are staying remote until Jan 23, 2021.

[Grampa Dave]

I was not aware of KC’s public school problems.

Your story can probably be replicated in most public schools across the nation.

[Chode]

this won't stop till a certain segment of the population is reduced to slapping it's forehead and grunting while it points to things they want...

[Deplorable American1776]

Parents, avoid Child Abuse, Homeschool your children!!

[Svartalfiar]

and “it isn’t the answer that matters but the process by which a student got there” I am thoroughly disgusted.

Well, when learning the process is pretty important - without it, there is no answer. That said, if the answer isn't correct, that would lead me to say there's a 99% chance something in their process was wrong too!