Watering down the tests actually hurts blacks in the long run.
Gotta keep the plantation populated somehow.
“...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
It hurts all students and society.
This is an entirely bogus approach to “reading comprehension” that will just assure the bottom three quarters or more of our students drop still further in their ability to read.