New law that PASSED in Virginia: Asians have to score in the 80s, blacks in the low..

[BrothaZay]

40s..

I cant find an article about it but i heard it on the NPR radio

Since 'teachers' are having a hard time getting kids up to standard by the end of the year, the VA schoolboard or whatever it is passed some rule breaking up the standard by race, if I remember correct it was

Asians had to pass with atleast a 84
Whites had to pass with atleast a low 70 something
Hispanics had to pass in the 50s
Blacks had to pass in the 40s
Mentally handicapped kids had to pass in the 30s

EDIT: Heres the LINK

Firestorm Erupts Over Virginia's Education Goals : NPR

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.

 

[Sweet James]

link the article fakkit.........

Not saying that it's not true; cause they passed something like this in Florida, but I think your exaggerating the test scores.....

 

[Gunshi]

i saw you on an episode of judge judy recently..... she took your ass to court for keying her car and stealing her ps3..... smfh
i got that shyt saved, gonna get it on youtbe soon

 

[unit321]

So basically, you want a neg rep train run today?

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Edit: Nicca you were really on judge judy?

 

[BrothaZay]

i saw you on an episode of judge judy recently..... she took your ass to court for keying her car and stealing her ps3..... smfh
i got that shyt saved, gonna get it on youtbe soon

I gave her my ps3. She said she had to spend her paychecc on something important and needed the ps3 for money to help her mom. Then I realized she didnt live with her mom

 

[The Nigerian]

While I think Brother Zay is a b!tch he isn't telling tall tales in this thread. The "soft bigotry" of divided expectations is a huge subject moving forward in the South. Check out this story from Gawker:

'Soft Bigotry' and the New Fight for Affirmative Action

Soft Bigotry’ and the New Fight for Affirmative Action
Cord Jefferson
In Florida this month, the state board of education approved one of the most controversial sets of educational achievement goals the country has seen in quite some time. In an effort to close the racial achievement gap that plagues much of America, the board decided to use that gap to set parameters for what it expects children of different races to achieve over the next six years. Breaking from George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind," which demanded uniform achievement goals for all students in an effort to avoid "soft bigotry," Florida is now going to have racially stratified educational targets in math and reading. In other words, black children performing more poorly than white children won't just be tolerated, it will be the rule.

For something deemed "soft bigotry," this sure seems pretty hard.
The Florida board says it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Latinos, and 74 percent of black students to be reading either at or above their grade level by 2018. For math, the proficiency goals are similar: 92 percent of Asians, 86 percent of whites, 80 percent of Latinos, and 74 percent of blacks (currently, only 38 percent of Florida's black schoolchildren read at or above their grade level, while 40 percent perform at or above their grade in math). Naturally, because this is a discussion about children and race, people are outraged. Juan Lopez, a magnet coordinator at a predominantly black middle school in Riviera Beach, called the board's decision "a little off-base." "Our kids, although they come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, they still have the ability to learn," he told the Palm Beach Post. "To dumb down the expectations for one group, that seems a little unfair."

Palm Beach County School Board Vice-Chairwoman Debra Robinson, who is black, was less gentle with her criticism. "I'm somewhere between complete and utter disgust," she told the Palm Beach Post, "and anger and disappointment with humanity."

While Florida argues amongst itself about how best to educate children of all races, in Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court is taking on the issue itself with the affirmative action case Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin.

Back in 1988, Texas state legislators installed a system in which high school graduates in the top 10 percent of their class are guaranteed admission to any state university of their choosing. Those students now make up nearly 80 percent of U.T.-Austin's incoming freshman classes. But because that plan wasn't doing anything for the school's diversity [PDF], U.T. Austin decided to choose the rest of its students through what it calls "holistic review," a process which considers an applicant's race as one factor amongst many.

Abigail Fisher, the young woman at the center of the Supreme Court case, graduated in the top 11 percent of her class in 2008 and was rejected from U.T.. She's now suing the school with the help of the Project on Fair Representation, a right-wing nonprofit legal defense fund that exists to attack racial preference laws. Fisher claims that she was denied entrance into U.T. not because she wasn't talented enough, but because she is white. She also argues that because she was forced to attend Louisiana State University instead of U.T., she wasn't afforded the same career opportunities she'd have had otherwise.

"I probably would have gotten a better job offer had I gone to U.T.," she told the NYT early this month.

U.T. has responded that its holistic review is in full accordance with the law (and they're right, as stipulated by the landmark 1978 Supreme Court case University of California Regents v. Bakke, and again in 2003's Grutter v. Bollinger). In 2003, the Supreme Court's majority ruling, authored by the now retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, stated that the U.S. Constitution "does not prohibit [Michigan law school's] narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body." It also looked toward a future in which race-based affirmative action will outlive its usefulness: "The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary."

Nine years into that 25-year window, affirmative action is less important than it once was, but it's still extraordinarily relevant. A 2007 New York Times magazine article explained just one of the ways California's barring of affirmative action in 1996 negatively impacted many black students attempting to get into the state's elite colleges:

The law says that universities can't consider race, even though race has an enormous effect on the lives of applicants. California's best high schools offer so many A.P. and honors classes - which confer bonus points on a student's G.P.A. - that the average G.P.A. of white and Asian freshmen at U.C.L.A. is now 4.2. At many of the largely black high schools around Los Angeles, it is sometimes impossible to do much better than a 4.0, because of the relative lack of A.P. classes.

Despite some hiccups along the way, and despite Fisher's personal complaints, affirmative action—where it's still legal—appears to be working. In 2010 enrollment at post-secondary institutions was 14 percent black and 61 percent white. Thirty-five years ago those numbers were 9 percent and 83 percent, respectively.

We've also started to think differently about the perceived goal of affirmative action. Whereas once it was considered necessary to right the historical wrongs of slavery and subsequent oppressive forces like Jim Crow, the Grutter decision made clear that the primary reason for affirmative action should be "obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body." In other words, affirmative action has become less about penitence to minority communities—particularly black Americans—and more about the student enrichment and breadth of knowledge that can be gained from putting together a lot of disparate experiences into a sort of learning potpourri. One reason for the shift in justification may be that it's more palatable to people who might otherwise complain that America shouldn't be giving preferential treatment to minorities. "Affirmative action isn't about being good to blacks," we can now say cheerily. "It's about making education better for everyone!"

The juxtaposition of Fisher's U.T. grievances with Florida's declaration that it's going to take a while to dig black children out of the hole they're in makes for an interesting muddle of conflicting ideas. On the one hand, affirmative action in its original iteration straightforwardly acknowledged that historically oppressed blacks deserve some precedent at universities in order to level the playing field. The new affirmative action is more indirect with its critique of history, but it still endorses the idea that most college campuses are too white, and that the learning environment suffers because of it. On the other hand, when Florida says outright that inequities have made it so black students as a whole are hobbled and can't achieve the way their white counterparts can, black leaders instinctually reel at what sounds like the wisdom of The Bell Curve. So where does the goodness of affirmative action end and the ugliness of Florida's new racially divided policy begin? At what point does accepting the realities of what centuries of discrimination has done to the black community turn into new discrimination based on insultingly lowered expectations?

Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides in Abigail Fisher's case, it's unlikely affirmative action is going anywhere anytime soon, even if it's technically outlawed. As Stanford law professor Richard Thompson Ford wrote in Slate last month, "[W]hen an admissions or hiring decision involves multiple subjective factors, its very hard to know whether or not race, per se, was one of them." Essentially, affirmative action will remain, because even if it does exist, it's nearly impossible to prove it's being used. What will also remain, unfortunately, is Fisher and her ilk's belief that if they lose in life it was because a black person somewhere cheated. To them, it's simply not conceivable that a nice white college applicant from Texas was inferior to other black and Latino applicants, and so they decide that someone somewhere needs to get sued in order to stop giving the minorities an unfair advantage.

[Image by Jim Cooke, eraser photo via Shutterstock]

This post has been updated to note the current reading and math levels of Florida's black students.

I don't know how to feel about this. I just know that it is disheartening to know that Black students are doing so poorly.

 

[BrothaZay]

link the article fakkit.........

Not saying that it's not true; cause they passed something like this in Florida, but I think your exaggerating the test scores.....

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[The Nigerian]

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I think the jig is up for black failures. America isn't putting up with excuses and will publicly humiliate you if you don't live up to society's standards.

 

[BrothaZay]

I think the jig is up for black failures. America isn't putting up with excuses and will publicly humiliate you if you don't live up to society's standards.

I know yall may disagree but I think we honestly can kind of use this to our advantage

Not everyone is meant to go to college, but if this will help more black kids graduate then it can be an advantage. I know the premise of it is bad and from a moral stand point its wrong, but nikkas dont check what your GPA in HS was unless your going to college, as long as you passed.

 

[DaChampIsHere]

Education Standards Divided by Race in Florida, Virginia

http://rt.com/usa/news/florida-hisp...]Black Breaking News and Headlines - The Root

Under the approved strategic revision, 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of whites, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of blacks will be expected to read at or above their applicable reading grade levels in future tests. For math scores, they expect 92 percent of Asians, 80 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of blacks to excel, suggesting that some races warrant a lower bar than others.

I've been hearing a lot about this, it seems like some black people eat this shyt up though.

It's like they are saying "Hey. We know you aren't that good of a parent, we know your children aren't that smart, we also know that they are bad and our teachers are tired of dealing with them. We are going to focus more on our children of other races and if your children and you decide to get it together, great, if not, so what? We didn't expect you to anyway"

Honestly, what is the education system really good for? I swear, I'd never let my child go to a regular public school. These systems out here are shytty.

This is what happens when black people continue to make excuses for each other as to why we can't do things. Not only do we start lowering our standards, but people start lowering their standards for us.

They are trying to passively curb our children's potential for greatness, passively encouraging us to be substandard because of our "backgrounds", because of "racism", etc. Don't be fooled. Stuggle never stopped any one from being great. Even though they keep trying to implant that idea into black kids heads. Laziness and a lack of desire have stopped many people though.

 

[The Nigerian]

I know yall may disagree but I think we honestly can kind of use this to our advantage

Not everyone is meant to go to college, but if this will help more black kids graduate then it can be an advantage. I know the premise of it is bad and from a moral stand point its wrong, but nikkas dont check what your GPA in HS was unless your going to college, as long as you passed.

Everyone will be aware of the situation. A "Black" diploma will automatically be worth less than any other persons. This is not a good thing. It reinforces very public, very destructive notions of Black inferiority.

Truth be told, I would not send my kid to any public school at this rate. If given the choice, I would home school my children. If not that, then they would be sent to a Catholic school. Public schools are poison for black youth.

 

[Boolean]

the 40s

some of you nikkas are DUMB

 

[The Nigerian]

I wish they'd just break people down by income level. Seriously, this race sh!t is mental poison.

 

[OC's finest]

this shyt is so racist all around, smh.