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Dumbing down America one proportional student at a time.
The way to improve “disparate outcomes” is not to artificially manufacture rewards for academic outcomes that have not been obtained by the work of the students, but to work harder at improving the actual academic results wherever those results have not been achieved well in the work of the students.
The idiots in academia are flying opposite to Martin Luther King’s dream of a world where folks are judged on their own character and NOT on the color of their skin. Instead, they intend to judge students worthy and unworthy BECAUSE of the color of their skin, and manufacture rewards to some who have not achieved them academically. This is not “moving forward” it is moving backwards.
Just out of curiosity, where do Asians fall on that spectrum?
Just give blacks a degree for being black and call it a day. That’s the ONLY way to achieve “proportional representation” ...
Sorry, it seems you've missed the memos sent out over the last 40 or 50 years.
Job #1) Union member full-employment
Job #2) Political action committees
Job #3) Indoctrination of communist/leftist/progressive political views on defenseless children
Job #4) Train children to ignore their parents and place all trust in a loving, caring government.
Actual education in the subjects you mention is racist, sexist, and/or homophobic.
Mark
Sorry, it seems you've missed the memos sent out over the last 40 or 50 years.
Job #1) Union member full-employment
Job #2) Political action committees
Job #3) Indoctrination of communist/leftist/progressive political views on defenseless children
Job #4) Train children to ignore their parents and place all trust in a loving, caring government.
Actual education in the subjects you mention is racist, sexist, and/or homophobic.
Mark
Liberal teachers-putting the “duh” in “duhgree”.
When this handout is done, and it is a handout, to a culture that has come to absolutely expect them, then employers will suffer as they are now. They simply will not be able to hire qualified candidates and our competitive edge against the world (in particular, China) will be lost.
All because of the suicidal political correctness.
And when the selected student fall behind and don’t do very well in these more advanced classes then what?
Why do parents still have their kids in the government schools? I don’t care what kind of sacrifice it takes, put the kids in private school or teach them at home. One of the reasons the left is so keen on universal pre-school and government run daycare is to start propagandizing the kiddies as early as possible. The increase in taxes to pay for that also forces more moms into the workforce. The entire system is geared towards raising little statists. Get you kids out.
Wonder what the parents of Indian and Asian students will do. They are not usually so vocal on these matters.
Thankfully that can NEVER HAPPEN at the public school which my children attend. NEVER!!!
Why? Because MY PUBLIC SCHOOLS is staffed by men and women who just love children, and would NEVER do anything to harm the prospects of white and Asian children, why NEVER!
It only happens at THOSE SCHOOLS, the ones in those hick towns, like in Virginia, but it can NEVER HAPPEN in my public schools because they are just so wonderful and caring.
(how FReepers rationalize sending their kids to public schools, despite everything they read here)
Most teachers are liberal unionists, led by socialist union bosses.