Posted under Affirmative Action & Education & Race
After years of stubbornly trying to implement pie-in-the-sky goals that assumed all children are above average, one state school board has decided to give reality a try:
The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race.
On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent.
Naturally, this evoked the expected howls of protest from the usual suspects:
But Palm Beach County School Board vice-chairwoman Debra Robinson isn’t buying the rationale. …
Robinson called the state board’s actions essentially “proclaiming racism” and said she wants Palm Beach County to continue to educate every child with the same expectations, regardless of race.
Handy word, “racism.” In this case, Robinson is using it to defend the old “anti-racist” policy of penalizing teachers and dooming children to failure in the name of upholding ideological bias. “You’re equal, dammit! Act that way!”
The cult of egalitarian multiculturalism is collapsing before our eyes.
Karen on 13 Oct 2012 at 8:42 pm #
Maybe the school board has started reading P. Rushton and intelligence studies.
Weaver on 14 Oct 2012 at 4:22 am #
I think I fear equally what comes after this cult, but it is nice to say we were right all along.
Weaver on 14 Oct 2012 at 4:29 am #
Which is to say, I doubt people will clamour for a return to tradition and ethnicity. Such would be a return to Monday, and it’s Thursday already! The next day is Friday, not Monday!
HarrisonBergeron2 on 14 Oct 2012 at 2:19 pm #
Karen,
Wouldn’t that be nice? My guess – and it’s just a guess – is that they proved Churchill right when he said you can count on Americans doing the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 14 Oct 2012 at 2:20 pm #
Weaver,
Every generation has its fight. This one is ours.
Karen on 14 Oct 2012 at 2:36 pm #
It will be interesting to see how long it last – and what the results are if it does last. I wonder if the Kansas City School System will be watching…
roho on 14 Oct 2012 at 10:55 pm #
Weaver…….I think that you are right.