"[snip]but the political fallout from having so many nonwhite youngsters fail would be immense."
OK, then make it fair at random fail white kids to make the numbers non-controversial and everything will be fine.
It is about equal opportunity not equal outcomes.
OK, then make it fair at random fail white kids to make the numbers non-controversial and everything will be fine.No, just have all the blacks and latinos list their race as white and all the whites and asians list theirs as black or latino. More black kids passing, less whites. To change a situation where blacks fare better that whites would obviously be racism, so it wouldn't be a "problem" anymore.