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Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls
theodp writes: In a press release Tuesday, the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) announced it was teaming with Lifetime Partner Apple and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on its Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to engage 10,000 girls in learning computing concepts. "Currently, just 25 states and the District of Columbia allow computer science to count as a math or science graduation requirement," explained the press release. "Because boys get more informal opportunities for computing experience outside of school, this lack of formal computing education especially affects girls and many youth of color." HUD, the press release added, has joined the Commitment to Action to help extend the program's reach in partnership with public housing authorities nationwide and provide computing access to the 485,000 girls residing in public housing. "In this Information Age, opportunity is just a click on a keyboard away. HUD is proud to partner with NCWIT to provide talented girls with the skills and experiences they need to reach new heights and to achieve their dreams in the 21st century global economy," said HUD Secretary Julian Castro, who coincidentally is eyed as a potential running mate for Hillary Clinton, whose daughter Chelsea is the Clinton Foundation's point-person on computer science. Last year, Chelsea Clinton gave a keynote speech at the NCWIT Summit and appeared with now-U.S. CTO Megan Smith to help launch Google's $50 million girls-only Made With Code initiative.
So you're saying boys are being discriminated against when it comes to computer science? People are saying such as ‘boys aren’t good at math or technology'
Get your head out of your ass sometime.
So you're saying boys are being discriminated against
Actually yes, this is exactly what this story is. Two siblings of opposite sexes now have unequal opportunities purely do to sex. Sorry little poor boys, your sister is more worthy than you. If you can show me anywhere where there is actual discrimination against girls, I'll concede the point, but I bet you that you can't find a single example.
So you're saying boys are being discriminated against when it comes to computer science?
I'll go much further than that. I'm saying NO ONE is being discriminated against when it comes to computer science, not by race or gender anyway. This has been the case for decades now. I can't remember a single story of a racial minority or woman being denied admission to any mainstream CS program on the basis of their race or gender since the 60's. Though with all this pressure to *favor* them, I expect this will change soon (unfortunately).
The issue now isn't about stopping discrimination. It's about some SJW's wanting to force society to look exactly the way that SJW's think it SHOULD look like. According to them, there SHOULD be an even racial/gender split in CS. If females and minorities refuse to play along with this and choose CS as a major, then the CS programs themselves should be forced to encourage them to enter CS at the expense of evil white males--even if it means excluding deserving white males and actively discriminating against them. Society should be FORCED to act and look the way that liberals want it to.
This isn't about fighting discrimination, and hasn't been for a very long time. It's about imposing social engineering by force.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
No, this would be akin to a community with many soup kitchens that tacitly serve men first and one comes along and says "Why don't we give some soup to women"?