Posted under Affirmative Action & Education & Humor & Political Correctness
Now here’s an inspiring story — a Jamaican immigrant becomes a teacher, then rises over the years into the government educational system hierarchy, where she lowers the Black-White achievement gap. Educrats and politicians all over the nation swoon:
In addition to serving as Atlanta Public Schools superintendent, Dr. Beverly Hall is chair of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Urban Superintendents Program, where she serves as a mentor superintendent to participants in the doctoral program. She also is a member of the Teaching Commission, which develops specific policy recommendations to deal with the teaching crisis in America.
Dr. Hall is the recipient of many local and national honors, including the American Association of School Administrators’ 2006 Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award, the Martin Luther King Jr. “Ground Crew” Award, the Big Brothers Big Sisters Legacy Award and the Atlanta Urban Debate League’s award named in her honor, the Beverly L. Hall Urban Debate Administrator of the Year Award.
Here’s a video of Dr. Hall wowing Congress’ Education and Labor committee. Could the position of Education Secretary be far behind, where, from such a lofty fulcrum, she could move the entire education system?
But rumors circulated that her miraculous results were phony. Dr. Hall ordered an internal investigation that concluded there were no problems [?!]. However, a state investigation has revealed a wide-spread, coordinated effort to pump up scores:
Georgia investigators have found evidence of cheating at close to 80 percent of the Atlanta schools where they examined the 2009 administration of state tests.
The 48,000-student Atlanta district has been under a cloud for the past two years, ever since an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis found improbably high results on the state’s Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, or CRCT.
So now we’re looking at a criminal case against both Dr. Hall and her assistant Kathy Augustine.
Have we learned anything? When the next miracle worker proclaims he’s found the secret to making all children above average, will we believe him?
Of course we will. There’s something bigger at stake here than just a vast conspiracy to commit educational fraud. The real issue is the government’s commitment to equality, to the notion that all good things come from government itself, and that its citizens, especially schoolchildren, are its passive raw materials.
The issue here is not whether Hall broke a few rules. She did. But if Dr. Hall is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? Isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society, and its pursuit of diversity? Well, you can do whatever you want, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to condemnations against the United States of America!
Take it away, Otter:
roho on 06 Jul 2011 at 2:48 pm #
Why do people expect a different result?…..Nothing has changed since the 1964 Federal Decree on Civil Rights. Students are promoted to get them out of class, and employees are promoted to get them out of the department. Affirmative Action prevails in all areas of America, confirmed in the sitting POTUS. Standards no longer exist, except in professional sports, which is the only outlet for Americans to observe winners and losers in a struggle. Negroes found their niche in Professional Sports, so it is now Holy Ground, where all aspects of Academic Marxism is checked at the door.
George C. Wallace was right from the beginning.
Bede on 06 Jul 2011 at 4:52 pm #
In just the past six months it has come out that leftists have fabricated test results in numerous cities to “close the racial gap.”
Sailer on NYC obscuring test results:
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/08/triumph-fades-on-racial-gap-in-city.html
Sailer on the gap in general:
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/100829_weissberg.htm
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/061126_iq.htm
Sailer on when the gap won’t close, throw away the test:
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/01/chicago-considering-scrapping-police.html
Murphy on 06 Jul 2011 at 6:07 pm #
May be her story’s like this guy’s? Probably the greatest scam in ‘academic’ history.
http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2010/07/msm-sinks-ever-lower.html?showComment=1308106294569#c2431485348732172862
Weaver on 07 Jul 2011 at 10:34 am #
Give me Equality, or give me Death!
HarrisonBergeron2 on 07 Jul 2011 at 1:36 pm #
Murphy,
That’s a hilarious site. Thanks for posting.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 07 Jul 2011 at 1:51 pm #
Bede,
I’d forgotten how widespread this has become.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 07 Jul 2011 at 1:53 pm #
roho, Weaver,
Yep, Equality! That’s how they justify it. But just as in the Soviet Union and Khmer Rouge Cambodia, the only way you can maintain the illusion of equality is through force and fraud.
Bruce on 07 Jul 2011 at 8:54 pm #
It is impossible for a race of people with less inteligence score as well as a race with an IQ 15 to 20 points higher on average.
This educational fact was known and taught openly in graduate schools before political correctness was forced upon us by liberals with a different agenda.
The politicians and educrats will blame the results or lack of results on lack of funding but more $$$ can never solve this problem.
Blacks dominate in basketball and violent crime but not in academic acheivement.
DanPhillips on 08 Jul 2011 at 10:35 pm #
The Otter Defense is what every “conservative” interventionist responds with when the issue of blowback is raised.
Bruce on 09 Jul 2011 at 10:25 am #
The other Bruce is correct.
DW on 10 Jul 2011 at 3:52 am #
I’m not so sure. For years Blacks wee far better at being crybaby victims, but now Whites seem to have lapped them several times over. Gaps can be closed it seems