Wynton Hall @ Big Government:
The Florida State Board of Education recently announced that its K-12 academic achievement goalsfor math and reading will vary depending on a student’s race.
By 2018, the Florida BOE hopes to see the following reading outcomes:
- 90% of Asian-American students reading at or above grade level
- 88% of Caucasian students reading at or above grade level
- 82% of American Indian students reading at or above grade level
- 81% of Latino students reading at or above grade level
- 74% of African-American students reading at or above grade level
The goals for grade level proficiency in math show a similar breakdown.
CNN’s LZ Granderson says the differing goals reflect current reality:
The reason: the disparity in the current reading level. While 69% of whites reach that mark now, only 53% of Latinos and just 38% of blacks do. That’s a problem, not only in terms of students’ ability to get into college, but just having a workforce in the state that is literate. So though the percentages of the 2017-18 goals seem biased in favor of whites, the percentage increase seeks to aggressively address a major reading problem plaguing minorities.
This isn’t racist. This is recognizing that if this racial disparity goes unchecked, it could have debilitating long-term effects on Florida’s economy.
But Washington Bureau director of the NAACP Hilary Shelton sees it differently. Mr. Shelton says the lower standards for minorities reflect what President George W. Bush once dubbed the “soft bigotry of low expectations”:
Perhaps, if the members of the NAACP stop voting for Democrats (who have held control of the education system for decades, while standards have continued to fail to improve, especially in urban schools,) and start voting for Constitutional Conservatives, (Who want to see education standards rise,) then maybe their children will get a better education.
Ditto
there is the proof,
I think the problem is with the UNIONS PROTECTION OVER THE ONES
WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO TEACH, BECAUSE LACKING OF SKILLS
WHICH INVOLVE MANY MORE THAN A CERTIFICAT,
NOT THE STUDENTS WHO SHOULD BE EXACTLY AS MUCH GOOD AS THEIR BRAIN ARE
TO ASSIMILATE THE TEACHER SKILLS,
IF THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH, THEY ASSIMILATE LESS AND THE LESS SMART DON’T ASSIMILATE NONE AND FAIL BECAUSE OF THE TEACHER TOO LAZY TO GO THE EXTRA MILES BECAUSE THE UNION DOESN’T REQUIRE THEM TO DO IT, NOT THE SCHOOL DIRECTOR,
The improvement of the education of minorities was the ONE thing I thought Obama’s election would do for sure.
But it has proven too hard for them to get past the minority culture that despises being smart as ”acting white.”
All Obama has managed to do is make the food in the schools horrid.
Sad, but true.
This is the type of thing I mean when I talk about the racism of liberals. While they way they express it has changed, they are still racists.