Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals

[Locutus]

via smalldeadanimals:

Your Modern Educators, Hard at Work

The Florida State Board of Education has passed a new strategic plan:

For reading at or above the grade level, the goals are as follows:

- 90 percent of Asian students
- 88 percent of White students
- 81 percent of Hispanic students
- 74 percent of Black students

For math at or above the grade level, the goals are as follows:

- 92 percent of Asian students
- 86 percent of White students
- 80 percent of Hispanic students
- 74 percent of Black students


Proponents bearing the soft prejudice of low expectations have won. Game over.


story: Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals « CBS Tampa

 

[L Gilbert]

lmao Funny and unreal.
Isn't FL run by a Rep?

 

[taxslave]

The way I read it Asians are the ones being discriminated against.

 

[Kreskin]

Is Shrubs brother still Governor?

 

[Locutus]

via Zip:

CNN a-n-a-l-yst Defends Florida’s New Race-Based Academic Goals…

Try and follow this guy’s logic, I tried, it gave me a migraine. Update to this story.
Via CNN:

[T]alking about this and other topics related to race doesn’t make one a racist. But denying its relevance in everyday life has the potential to hurt everyone. For example, the Florida State Board of Education has recently come under fire because the academic achievement goals it set for minority students appear to be lower than the ones set for white students. By the 2017-18 school year, the board wants to have 88% of white students at or above the grade level benchmark for reading but only 81% of Latinos and 74% of blacks.

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.

Some think the word diversity is a euphemism for “anything but white,” but I don’t. I believe in the diversity of thought, which sometimes can play out racially, but not always. Having people from different geographic locations can introduce different insight and talent to a college campus or workforce, and variations of socioeconomic status bring in diversity as well.


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[tay]

Is Shrubs brother still Governor?

Yes mushrooms can keep one blissful........


I have personal experience with the Floriduh educational system. When I was in grade 5 we moved to Florida (father transferred/promoted) in 1969. After 3 weeks in grade 5 there I was given a test which after the result they installed me in their version of grade 7. My parents simply said that the florida system was different than the canadian system and I never thought much about it.






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[Liberalman]

Don’t need much education for high paying jobs like football, baseball, basketball, and hockey.

 

[Machjo]

via smalldeadanimals:

Your Modern Educators, Hard at Work

The Florida State Board of Education has passed a new strategic plan:

For reading at or above the grade level, the goals are as follows:

- 90 percent of Asian students
- 88 percent of White students
- 81 percent of Hispanic students
- 74 percent of Black students

For math at or above the grade level, the goals are as follows:

- 92 percent of Asian students
- 86 percent of White students
- 80 percent of Hispanic students
- 74 percent of Black students


Proponents bearing the soft prejudice of low expectations have won. Game over.


story: Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals « CBS Tampa

This seriously risks backfiring. Even a non-racist employer will now have to question competence based on race. If the problem is that blacks tend to be discriminated against in the workplace, or that their grades tend to be low owing to being born into poor or broken families, etc. then deal with the problem directly through job training for the unemployed, etc. not this way.

 

[L Gilbert]

Yep. Mach is right.
This does nothing to prepare non-white students for higher education and perpetuates the higher education levels to be populated by whites. Flatout stupidity. Attack the problem at its roots, don't attack it with a bandaid that has no adhesive.

 

[Machjo]

Worse yet, it risks feeding prejudices linking intelligence to genetics.

 

[taxslave]

Wouldn't the smart move be to have a program to get ANYONE with low reading and math skills up to an acceptable level?