Posted on 01/03/2010 10:27:06 PM PST by neverdem
These people are insane.
Simply insane.
So! Instead of laboratory science we will have community organizing.
Here's the answer as to "why," right here...
Mark
They will vote for Democrats, so guess who it benefits?
Most school districts do one of the following:
1) Water down classes to the point that they are worthless
2) Fudge the test results
3) Assign grades by race, with blacks given higher letter grades than whites.
All three of these maneuvers are causing public education to collapse, at least with regard to its ostensible purpose.
Most conservatives believe that if blacks were treated "equally", and furthermore were motivated (properly) to work hard and to adopt functional school behaviors, that they would succeed where they now fail, and, specifically, that they would have success in the upper grades of academic high school.
Most educators behave as if they know this is ridiculous.
The public schools have been given a mission to give an "equal education" to blacks. The meaning of this is a little vague - equal inputs, or equal results? But the mainstream conservative position seems to be, with equal inputs and proper conduct/student management, that the results will be equal enough to sustain the enterprise.
The Berkeley School Committee knows, obviously, that this is false. Given their mandate from a very broad spectrum of society, including conservatives, to demonstrate equal results across races, what else are they supposed to do?
They’ll “educate” these liberals to the point where they won’t have a clue which end of the pistol the bullet exits. Disassembling and cleaning a rifle will take the better part of a week and parts will be left over. New marksmen stances will be invented where they’ll be taught that cranking your arm like a windmill while firing your weapon will make the bullet go faster.
Good for us.
What a tragedy.
“No Child Left Behind” has been replaced by “No Child Gets Ahead”.
Un-F’in belivable!
And that’s the town I was born in.
Berkeley has more than 40 private academies, and they are all even crazier than this.
Equality of outcome on steroids.
Sorry to hear it. That is truly pathetic.
Can you keep an eye on this for follow ups? Thanks
People are not seeing clearly here. Science LABS are waaaay more expensive to conduct than say, minority studies, or some lesbo stuff:
You need to have chemicals, to take inventory constantly, to have microscopes and other easily lost, stolen, or breakable stuff.
It is also considerably more likely that the person teaching a hard science class is considerably less liberal than the other teachers, sort of like the football coach.
By canceling science class they claim their motive is to make things more equal for minorities, and I do believe that is PARTLY their motive —they will make alll kinds of noise about that. But the reality is much more tangible; they want the science lab money for themselves and for the really ideological, lesbo core-faction —the people who REALLY matter to Berkeley educators.
Just 3 blocks uphill from BHS, Berkeley is dominated by a huge school of science & engineering. Further downhill in Berkeley along the canal and especially 3 miles south of there in Emeryville is dominated by many nano/bio startups, but that doesn’t matter to these EduCommies.
They want their own little machine to run in tip-top form, and now that California’s big pie is smaller, they have to make choices between the kids’ future or them.
We all know what their choice is, eh?
Any parent, who choses to live in Berkley, has opted to live in a terrible place to raise their children.
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