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As part of Virginia's waiver to opt out of mandates set out in the No Child Left Behind law, the state has created a controversial new set of education goals that are higher for white and Asian kids than for blacks, Latinos and students with disabilities.
Here's what the Virginia state board of education actually did. It looked at students' test scores in reading and math and then proposed new passing rates. In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities.
Originally posted by SilentKoala
I don't know about anyone else, but if someone ever told me the bar should be set lower because of the color of my skin, they would be swiftly punched in the face.
Re-enforcing the false idea that certain races are inferior is not going to help the cause of class mobility, IMO.
They make the ethnic community support it by telling them they deserve an easier trip through life, and access to things in life, because they were oppressed.
Alarmed by these numbers, McEachin and members of the Legislature's black caucus denounced the new policy as a "backwards-looking scheme."
"If we don't demand the best of our children, we won't receive the best," says McEachin.
Originally posted by Trustfund
reply to post by Mr Tranny
They make the ethnic community support it by telling them they deserve an easier trip through life, and access to things in life, because they were oppressed.
If you read the article you would see that the black caucus is upset over it.
Alarmed by these numbers, McEachin and members of the Legislature's black caucus denounced the new policy as a "backwards-looking scheme."
"If we don't demand the best of our children, we won't receive the best," says McEachin.
www.vpr.net...
Affirmative action, which originally sought to repair the state-induced damage to blacks from slavery and its aftermath, has within one generation brought about a permeating state-sponsored racism that is as odious as the Jim Crow laws it sought to countermand.
In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities.
Originally posted by SilentKoala
As part of Virginia's waiver to opt out of mandates set out in the No Child Left Behind law, the state has created a controversial new set of education goals that are higher for white and Asian kids than for blacks, Latinos and students with disabilities.
www.vpr.net...
Here's what the Virginia state board of education actually did. It looked at students' test scores in reading and math and then proposed new passing rates. In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities.
I don't know about anyone else, but if someone ever told me the bar should be set lower because of the color of my skin, they would be swiftly punched in the face.
Re-enforcing the false idea that certain races are inferior is not going to help the cause of class mobility, IMO.
Originally posted by Mr Tranny
Originally posted by Trustfund
reply to post by Mr Tranny
They make the ethnic community support it by telling them they deserve an easier trip through life, and access to things in life, because they were oppressed.
If you read the article you would see that the black caucus is upset over it.
Alarmed by these numbers, McEachin and members of the Legislature's black caucus denounced the new policy as a "backwards-looking scheme."
"If we don't demand the best of our children, we won't receive the best," says McEachin.
www.vpr.net...
The Virginia legislative black caucus upset over it? You have got to be f’ng kidding me! Ooww the irony!!!!
After their confrontation with james webb six years ago, in regard to the subject. You would think that if anyone knew when to keep their mouth shut in a situation, it would be them.
Talk about being instrumental in creating a situation, then running around crying like you are the victim!
They publicly denounced webb because of his comments about affirmative action. They were the ones front and center, pushing affirmative action, and his criticisms of how it was being implemented(by them) were mocked, and he was derided.
You want to know what webb said?
Affirmative action, which originally sought to repair the state-induced damage to blacks from slavery and its aftermath, has within one generation brought about a permeating state-sponsored racism that is as odious as the Jim Crow laws it sought to countermand.
Yet, six years later, when the policies are being put into action that they were instrumental in creating…… They have the gall to cry racism! They are saying something now that they practically ran a person out of town for saying six years ago.
I could use the terms like…
Blaring hypocrisy.
Cognitive dissidence.
Shooting yourself in the foot.
Or just blatant dishonesty.
But all those terms would not really properly describe the concept going through my head right now.
Originally posted by xuenchen
Where do unequal standards end ?
8th Grade graduation ?
High School graduation ?
College ?
Oh wait......here it is
Job qualifications maybe ?
What do employers think about this ?
Huh? In what way is blatant racial discrimination comparable to affirmative action?
Unequal standards end when large geographic regions of the country get over their seemingly endemic racism.