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re: AP & Honors classes to be partly decided by skin color, not intelligence?
Posted on 8/8/17 at 7:43 pm to Crimson Wraith
Posted on 8/8/17 at 7:43 pm to Crimson Wraith
Just FYI. Todd Starnes is probably the biggest "fake news" columnist at Fox. He consistently writes inaccurate stories, makes them overly dramatic, and too often only presents one side of the story without much effort put into the other side.
He took a social media post some mother some months back about her son's school, and ran with the story as it was fact, when it wasn't. If he had attempted to get the other side of the story, like a professional, then that would have been avoided.
Anyways, this article is ridiculous:
Not only does it look like it could have been created by the parent, it's odd the parent went to Todd Starnes and not local.
But that I find to be the biggest red flag are the racial quotas in relation to the student population:
Virginia School Quality Report for John Handley High School
So with 13.1% African Americans enrolled, they are actually going to make their quota (12%) smaller than the enrollment. And the only group they are going to make larger is Hispanic? Then again why would they even make there quotas since it's actually not that far from their proportion of student population (46% white; 30% Hispanic; 13% AA; 2% Asian; 1% American Indian; 7% two or more races).
ETA: It's a vision statement reflecting the districts demographic profile, and racial quotas were deemed impermissible by SCOTUS.
He took a social media post some mother some months back about her son's school, and ran with the story as it was fact, when it wasn't. If he had attempted to get the other side of the story, like a professional, then that would have been avoided.
Anyways, this article is ridiculous:
quote:Why would AP classes be decided by intelligence? They are usually, or almost always based on achievement, and intelligence is an important part of that, but not the sole part. In other words, his title implies that one's IQ is the standard to get into an AP class. Gifted services and special education are pretty much the only time those are used in school. So that's a strange way to title it.
School: AP and Honors classes will be decided by skin color, not intelligence
quote:And here we go again. He posts a picture of the alleged letter:
“Through our collective work, advanced classes such as AP and Honors will have proportional representation,” read the letter. “Proportional representation is 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.
Not only does it look like it could have been created by the parent, it's odd the parent went to Todd Starnes and not local.
But that I find to be the biggest red flag are the racial quotas in relation to the student population:
Virginia School Quality Report for John Handley High School
So with 13.1% African Americans enrolled, they are actually going to make their quota (12%) smaller than the enrollment. And the only group they are going to make larger is Hispanic? Then again why would they even make there quotas since it's actually not that far from their proportion of student population (46% white; 30% Hispanic; 13% AA; 2% Asian; 1% American Indian; 7% two or more races).
ETA: It's a vision statement reflecting the districts demographic profile, and racial quotas were deemed impermissible by SCOTUS.
This post was edited on 8/8/17 at 9:12 pm
Posted on 8/8/17 at 7:47 pm to buckeye_vol
quote:
Just FYI. Todd Starnes is probably the biggest "fake news" columnist at Fox. He consistently writes inaccurate stories, makes them overly dramatic, and too often only presents one side of the story without much effort put into the other side.
When you can't defend the content, attack the source.
You be you
Posted on 8/8/17 at 8:10 pm to buckeye_vol
OMG. Such a viewpoint you have. Giftedness.
Posted on 8/8/17 at 8:36 pm to buckeye_vol
quote:
Just FYI. Todd Starnes is probably the biggest "fake news" columnist at Fox. He consistently writes inaccurate stories, makes them overly dramatic, and too often only presents one side of the story without much effort put into the other side
Sounds like the wapo mission statement.
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o with 13.1% African Americans enrolled, they are actually going to make their quota (12%) smaller than the enrollment. And the only group they are going to make larger is Hispanic? Then again why would they even make there quotas since it's actually not that far from their proportion of student population (46% white; 30% Hispanic; 13% AA; 2% Asian; 1% American Indian; 7% two or more races
Seriously. You're relentless desperation to be contrarian is starting to degrade your cognitive ability.
The reason is the same reason for every quota, because if it were strictly merit based a much larger percentage of one or two of those demographics would be represented in the AP and honors classes.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:45 am to buckeye_vol
Ah the "moderate" defending another bullshite left wing idea
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