Posted on 10/12/2012 10:06:07 PM PDT by River Hawk
Palm Beach, Fla. (CBS TAMPA) – The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race.
On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities, reported the Palm Beach Post.
The plan has infuriated many community activists in Palm Beach County and across the state.
“To expect less from one demographic and more from another is just a little off-base,” Juan Lopez, magnet coordinator at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Riviera Beach, told the Palm Beach Post.
JFK Middle has a black student population of about 88 percent.
“Our kids, although they come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, they still have the ability to learn,” Lopez said. “To dumb down the expectations for one group, that seems a little unfair.”
Others in the community agreed with Lopez’s assessment. But the Florida Department of Education said the goals recognize that not every group is starting from the same point and are meant to be ambitious but realistic.
As an example, the percentage of white students scoring at or above grade level (as measured by whether they scored a 3 or higher on the reading FCAT) was 69 percent in 2011-2012, according to the state. For black students, it was 38 percent, and for Hispanics, it was 53 percent.
In addition, State Board of Education Chairwoman Kathleen Shanahan said that setting goals for different subgroups was needed to comply with terms of a waiver that Florida and 32 other states have from some provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. These waivers were used to make the states independent from some federal regulations.
“We have set a very high goal for all students to reach in Florida,” Shanahan said.
But Palm Beach County School Board vice-chairwoman Debra Robinson isn’t buying the rationale.
“I’m somewhere between complete and utter disgust and anger and disappointment with humanity,” Robinson told the Post. She said she has been receiving complaints from upset black and Hispanic parents since the state board took its action this week.
Robinson called the state board’s actions essentially “proclaiming racism” and said she wants Palm Beach County to continue to educate every child with the same expectations, regardless of race.
Ummmm. What exactly are they trying to say here?
oh yeah, this is just so not offensive to all races mentioned.
this is real, genuine racism. guess all the libs think blacks are the stupidest people alive. gotta really lower expectations for them.
yeah, this isn’t offensive in the least.
The Florida State Board of Education passed... a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities..." To expect less from one demographic and more from another is just a little off-base," Juan Lopez, magnet coordinator at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Riviera Beach, told the Palm Beach Post... the Florida Department of Education said the goals recognize that not every group is starting from the same point and are meant to be ambitious but realistic.
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You can’t fix stupid.
“guess all the libs think blacks are the stupidest people alive. gotta really lower expectations for them.”
What part of the progressive agenda doesn’t say, out loud, and in public “all minorities are too weak, too stupid, too lazy, too pathetic to make it on their own, so we must make special rules for them so they have a chance in the competition that is life”. ??
Leftists/progressives/liberals... whatever name the cosmopolitan transnational communist international calls itself these days, are the most bone deep, knee jerk racists in existence. They are simply adept at hiding their nasty evil behind bland smiles.
“this is real, genuine racism. guess all the libs think blacks are the stupidest people alive. gotta really lower expectations for them.”
Well, the black community and white liberals want more Cynthia McKinney’s and Barbara Lee’s than Allen West’s and Condi Rice’s.
Sad part is black community leaders want the first and not the second.
Yet once they become age 18, their vote counts the same as anyone else.
Except it’s not that simple and it’s more insidious than that.
Marginal students are further challenged by the needlessly confounding teaching methods that the products of our ‘best’ ed schools and teacher unions impose on the system.
They are making sure they can hit their targets and get more money. Lower the targets. Easier to hit. Simple.
Yup, that state-sponsored racism is coming along great.
Funny that the school system can do this but if companies modeled their hiring practices on this state-approved plan, they’d be sued into oblivion by the “Justice” Dept.
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