Posted on 02/08/2023 10:32:26 AM PST by artichokegrower
Oceanside, California is a beautiful seaside town and home to a working-class community with a median per-capita income of $37,366. The city’s two largest public employers are: Oceanside Unified School District (OUSD), a public K-12 school district, and Camp Pendleton, a major U.S. Marine Corps base.
OUSD has a diverse student body, of which 60% are of Hispanic descent. According to the 2022 California Smarter Balanced results, only 28.73% of OUSD students could do math at the grade level and only 41.2% had English proficiency. For the 2021-22 school year, the California Department of Education calculates that over 62% of OUSD students qualified for free or reduced-price meals.
Recently, a diverse group of concerned parents and citizens in OUSD have organized to confront their school board representatives with growing evidence of questionable teaching practices and materials in the local schools.
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Public schools in California are a dumpster fire.
I live in Santa Cruz County a ways up the coast from Oceanside
This is from our county office of education
February is Black History Month, and the COE Racial Equity and Justice Initiative website is sharing new and updated resources including a video from Dr. Ibram X Kendi on talking to your kids about race.
And I wonder what has been spent in this district to provide this “education.”
“60% are of Hispanic descent.”
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I’m sure a big part of it is terrible schools, but keep in mind the average IQ in Mexico is 88. So it’s probably more than just lousy schools.
Hate to say it, but you are right. I taught for 16 years in Los Angeles. Those kids grow up without a book in the house. The parents do absolutely nothing toward education at home. They know nothing but sports, snacks, and video games.
The controller and operations manager of my company are both Hispanic. They each make a six figure salary. You are playing into the game plan of liberals by diverting the conversation on what is happening in our schools
Public schools in California are a dumpster fire.
They have been for at least 2 decades.
Our grandkids in Eastern Contra Costa county had good school from grades 1-7.
8th grade became a nightmare for the kids as black and brown thugs ruled the next 5 years in the public schools.
So family members/us helped the parents to send their kids, our grandkids to good Catholic private schools. That enabled them to basically go to most California colleges and every out of state college they applied to. Our granddaughter got into an outstanding 4 year RN program east coast school, 25 K$ per year scholarship. She passed the National RN test on her first try. She is now working as an ICU lead rn in an excellent hospital.
Her younger brother will be graduated this spring in an excellent 4 year engineering school. He has a great job offer from the company, he has worked for while attending college. He was accepted at every good California and out of state college/program, he applied to.
Most of their local peers are still messing around with so called California colleges and no jobs nor degrees.
I’m not trying to divert anything, just being real. I don’t hate Hispanics (or any other group for that matter), I have blood relatives who are Puerto Rican whom I love dearly. But as Trump once said, Mexico isn’t exactly sending us their best, on the contrary, we are getting the most desperate and least educated and skilled. This is likely to have long term negative effects on our society. I know this is an uncomfortable subject for many, but ignoring reality isn’t a good idea either.
The average IQ of a central American is around 80-85.
People who achieve that level of success live on the higher end of the IQ curve. If you posit that it takes an IQ of 135 or better to earn an MD and overlay IQ curves by groups, you will see how many of each group populate the 135 or better threshold. That is the measure of whether a particular group is "underrepresented" in a particular endeavor. Just because a person meets the minimum IQ criterion doesn't mean they have an interest in pursuing an MD or other higher level degree. It isn't the gross percentage of each group as a part of the whole. That is the common fallacy pushed by the DEI crowd.
Schools are an involuntary participation operation. You get the full spectrum. When you do that in a classroom, the class slows down to the speed of the poorest performer. Being able to sort classrooms by capability would be a net benefit. It won't happen because the concept that "we are all created equal" prevents it.
I'd guess the average IQ of an illegal Mexican immigrant is 88.
Mexico has castes of much lighter-skinned Castizos and white European Mexicanos blancos who make up positions of privilege, leadership, and affluence. Pretty much par for the course of all Latin American countries and I'd bet they score much higher on IQ tests.
They're not the ones jumping over the border.
Indeed, they're practicing a policy of "Make Mexico Great Again" that involves shipping their illiterate, unskilled, 88-IQ underclass to the United States.
I agree much of it has to do with the environment these kids are raised in. If the parents respect and value education and instill that value in their children, odds are those children will perform much better in school. The high school I went to back in the 70’s was over 93% black, and I remember how the black kids would mock other black kids if they did well in school for “acting white”. With an attitude like that it’s no wonder so many of those kids did poorly.
I remember from decades ago that most (95%) of Ph.Ds and M.D.s were Stanford-Biney 120 IQ or higher. I realize the exact number is not your main point but if there were a 135 IQ cutoff for medical school we’d still lose a significant percentage of doctors. I also recall the mean IQ for university-level instructors (including professors, untenured teaching staff, etc.) was 128. I was in psychometrics at the time (the neuropsychological definition of psychometry, not the extrasensory one!).
Stanford-Binet
I read somewhere the average IQ of a medical doctor was 125. And that as one’s IQ rose over 130, there was a decreasing correlation between IQ and financial success. So 125 seems to be the sweet spot.
Been to Oceanside a couple of times in the late ‘70s when my brother was in the USMC. It sure was nice.
Great article.
The lower-economic folks always have to bear the brunt of the elites’ high-flown but stupid social change ideas that the mucky-mucks can afford to insulate their own families from.
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