[blam]

I still can't believe this is happening.

All this will do is destroy the education of those students who want to be 'correctly' educated.

Get your kids out of these cess pool public education facilities.

[Albion Wilde]

The unavoidably racist and thoroughly demeaning implication is that black students are not capable of “showing their work” or “getting the right answers,” and so teachers must lower the academic bar or remove it altogether.

There was a wonderful film in 1988 called Stand and Deliver, about a teacher in a Los Angeles Hispanic barrio school, Jaime Escalante, who inspired his students to excel in advanced mathematics. He believed in them and taught them discipline and self-confidence, and they surprised all the nay-sayers by scoring high on standardized tests.

We adopted his Spanish-inflected coaching words in our house to encourage ours to do well in school: "Ju can do it. Ju're d' best!" Oops. I guess that was racist cultural appropriation, even though it was affectionate and admiring of Escalante, and it worked.

Never mind.