[barb-tex]

Latino is not a race, the correct term is “spainish surname” and they are classed as “white”. If yo daddy be named Jones and yo mammy be named Lopez, you could miss out on a lot of Obama Largess. The national Teachers Unions make a convenient whipping boy, but the teacher is like a soldier on the front lines who is given defective ammo and weapons and is blamed for the defeat. When you have the likes of Teddie, et al, writing the curriculum, it makes little difference of good teacher, or bad teacher. Policy determines how hard you can grade. If they would lay off the teachers, and beat on the politicians, something might change.
barbra ann

[Kenny Bunk]

Barb,
The Federal bureaucracy uses the semi-official "Brown Paper Bag Test" for "Spanish surnamed" individuals. The bags come in different shades, so only a Federal Bureaucrat is qualified to say. Incandescent vs Fluorescent Office lighting may, or may not be a factor.

IOW, King Juan Carlos is definitely not an "Hispanic," for Federal entitlement purposes, neither posasibly, are the stars of telenovelas. Penelope Cruz might or might not be, depending on the state of her suntan.

Now take Geraldo Rivera (please.} He is the offspring of a Jewish woman, married to a Puerto Rican fellow, somewhere in the Jose Ferrer range of pigmentation. However, he is a Democrat, and has self-identified as an Hispanic and also as a "person of color." He worked the racket well enough to get his breakthrough job on NY TV.

However, if he were living in New Mexico, it might nave been a different story. In re the Obamba Largesse: it is a tint-based program. He didn't invent all this, but he will extend it as a ssystem of more and more government control.

Keep up that tan, Gonzalez, and dye that hair!

[kabar]

Latino is not a race, the correct term is “spainish surname” and they are classed as “white”. If yo daddy be named Jones and yo mammy be named Lopez, you could miss out on a lot of Obama Largess.

How is that distinguishable from Hispanic. And since when does being just half Latino disqualify you from receiving affirmative action, minority business set asides, etc. That is not the way our EEO laws are written.

The Census Bureau has created the phony category of non-Hispanic whites so that the USG can provide minority rights and benefits to whites [Hispanic].

Success in school is probably more dependent upon your family situation than it is the quality of the teachers or the schools. If you are born in a poor family to a single parent you are more likely to drop out of school.