Posted on 02/09/2010 3:07:11 PM PST by jazusamo
Mr. Principal, you're either a liar, or stupid, or both. If you "bring everyone up" there will still be a gap.
So very true. I heard somewhere that liberals are addicted to the feeling of moral superiority but because they can’t actually BE moral in any traditional sense of the word, they substitute FEELINGS and become Berkeley residents.
If I understand......If blacks and latinos didn’t do well in math, history, English, wood shop, metal shop, etc.....they would get rid of the classes? Make the dumb, dumber sounds like the rule of the day. The state needs to step in on this one.
Shoot, liberals believe more in manipulating inputs to change the output than anyone. They just want to do it for everyone at once in an evil, collectivist, enervating manner.
Unfortunately in this case, "the state" is California. The legislature's probably studying the Berkeley program in order to make it mandatory statewide. :-(
I grew up in a suburb of Newark and being close to New York, boy did we learn. Trips to the Museum of Natural History, a trip to a Broadway play, a trip to Edison's laboratory, and history readings in science history, literature history, and broadway's history including visiting George M Cohens stature at Times Square sure did the trick!
Another of my teachers was the USA 1960 Assistant Olympic Swimming coach. I earned my Water Safety Instructor certificate by following his teaching paradigm.
D.O.T. First your must Do. Then you must Observe. then you can Teach. A DOT. com before the Internet!
Why couldn’t Thomas Sowell have been the “First African American President?”
This would have been the step towards a colorblind society. Instead we get the Racist in Chief Obama who will leave no stone unturned in an attempt to force the nation to bow to his version of colorblind - which means dragging down those who DO by forcing them to give to those who DON’T. Whether you are white or black, Obama wants to discourage hard work and reward those who merely suck off the system and bow to ‘the one’s” greatness.
If that’s true, they better get rid of basketball because white kids can’t jump. It ain’t fair. Everone knows that.....even Hollywood knows this.........since they made a movie about it.
Leave it to a Berkeley educator to come up with a hair brained plan like that, it really isn’t surprising.
I know. I love it! I always bring up the NBA when anyone wants to argue affirmative action. I’m honest because I oppose it in the NBA and everywhere else. Watch them squirm as they try to explain how they’re not hypocrites even though their support for the policy depends on whose ox is getting gored. Plus you can frame it as Asians vs. other minorities. Asians are discriminated against even more heavily than whites, so ask supporters to explain why the biggest losers in a program to help minorities, are minority!
We need thousands more like you had. I had several but I also had some duds and that was a lot of years ago.
I love Dr Sowell.
I doubt that the Berkeley school board or even principals can understand that clear sentence.
The retards in Berkeley are getting the government (and the education) that they deserve.
On the bright side, think of the money they'll save not having to travel to Sweden to celebrate Nobel Prizes!
Just saying...
In CA more and more of the educational dollar is going to underachievers and non-english speakers. It is being done at the expense of the accomplished students. Like many other states, people are leaving the underachieving districts and going to private schools or schools that have a high percentage of Asians and Europeans. Parents will look after their kids.
Don’t say “retards”. It’ll be a thread hijack for sure. I’m series.
LOL! Now that's funny, and true.
The point is to close educational gaps among groups, or at least go on record as trying. As with most equalization crusades, whether in education or in the economy, it is about equalizing downward, by lowering those at the top. "Fairness" strikes again!
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