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With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race
According to a story at Northwest Public Radio, the state of Virginia's board of education has decided to institute different passing scores for standardized tests, based on the racial and cultural background of the students taking the test. Apparently the state has chosen to divide its student population into broad categories of black, white, Hispanic, and Asian — which takes painting with a rather broad brush, to put it mildly. From the article (there's an audio version linked as well): "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." (If officially determined group membership determines passing scores, why stop there?) Florida passed a similar measure last month.
Why isn't this even surprising?
The two american parties have long been to the very far right of European politics, with the Republicans being perfectly incapable of being a lawful party following the German constitution. From this point of view, Americans had the choice between Protofascists on the one hand and radical Nationalists on the other - with no realistic third alternative.
This kind of law is nothing but racist discrimination truely worthy of the apartheid regime the US still was under John F. Kennedy and a few presidents after and all before him. What else does it take to knock sense into Americans, to look into the mirror and see what they have become?
Now make up your mind whether this is "overrated", "troll" or "flamebait".
No it isn't. It's just making sure that blacks stay in their proper place with a lowered education more suitable to plantation and, in contemporary society, McDonalds drive-thru work. They don't need high standardized test scores because they don't need to be all that smart to keep their place in society. Do you expect them to be kept to the standards of their betters of higher-class white men? Do you know how unfair that is? Why don't we make you get a Ph.D. in astrophysics for your white collar sales job with IBM and then maybe you'll see a little clearer how we shouldn't tax the inferior negro brain, hmm?
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NAACP is anti-white on its face and in its name.
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