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Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals
tampa bay cbs ^ | 10/12/2012 | staff

Posted on 10/13/2012 7:01:34 PM PDT by tobyhill

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampa.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discrimination; floriduh; naughtyteacherslist; quotas; racialdivision; racism; reeducationcenters
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To: tobyhill
The plan has infuriated many community activists in Palm Beach County and across the state.

Community activists? What does the POTUS think?

21 posted on 10/13/2012 7:33:58 PM PDT by Gamecock
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To: unixfox

Yes pathetic. So are they going to adjust qualification tests for jobs and promotions to a lower score for blacks also?


22 posted on 10/13/2012 7:43:22 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: tobyhill
USF went into the red in 2011 for paying for the phones & service.
Safelink is onwed by Ameican Movil and is a Mexican teclcom.

12.5 million phones from all carriers subsidized @ approx. 10 bucks a month per phone.

Couldn't even give the business to a US firm.

Problem is, this has been flying under the radar for awhile and started long before Obama....back to land-line days.

23 posted on 10/13/2012 7:48:09 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ->The Jayson Blair administration)
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To: tobyhill
Florida is a “right to work” state.

Government employees are the only large unions in this entire state.

I now understand why my local Superintendent of Schools suddenly announced her immediate retirement.

Fire every damn one of these FDOE assholes!

24 posted on 10/13/2012 7:48:34 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: jimfree
Or here's one: Income.

Divide students by family income in $20,000 increments:

$20,000

$40,000

$60,000

$80,000

etc, and get your base scores and target scores accordingly.

That would be interesting, no?

25 posted on 10/13/2012 7:50:29 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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To: jimfree
Actually, what it is doing is instituting realism into the system.

This will not be allowed to stand. They will be apologizing for their temerity in a week.

26 posted on 10/13/2012 7:50:33 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: tobyhill

The racism of low expectations. Liberal nirvana.


27 posted on 10/13/2012 7:56:37 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: mazda77

If I were black and had kids in school, I would be furious.


28 posted on 10/13/2012 7:58:16 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: tobyhill

Well, it seems that the way to make everybody equal, is to make blacks feel very deficient and incapable, while Asians become the superior race. White and Hispanics should feel somewhat superior to blacks, but not by much.

Essentially, the way to make blacks feel better about themselves, is to call them mentally deficient. Nice!


29 posted on 10/13/2012 7:59:07 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Libloather

A black woman I work with (my daughter works at the same place) has elementary aged children. My daughter said one day they were in her office and her daughter was trying to read (I think she’s in first grade) and was struggling with some words. Her mother told her she was “dumb as hell”. How in the world can a mother talk to her child like that and expect them to learn?

By the way, I have heard the mother read and she, too, is “dumb as hell”!


30 posted on 10/13/2012 8:03:13 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: tobyhill
The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race.

But don't you dare call any race inferior.

31 posted on 10/13/2012 8:13:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: tobyhill
I teach in an urban, racially mixed high school. Many of our students are from African or Asian families while others are from families that have been here for generations. It makes me angry to see the low academic achievement of many of these kids. I'm dealing with 15 or 16 year old students who read at a mid-elementary school level. They don't have the capacity to read textbooks or write coherent sentences, let alone understand high school science. They've been done a terrible disservice by a community that cossets them and promotes them from grade to grade when they haven't learned even the most basic skills. Most of them plan to go to college. I expect that with AA programs, they'll be accepted somewhere, given grants or loans to pay for it, and end up with diplomas and government jobs.

Most of the youngsters from Asian or African immigrant families are working their backsides off to get ahead. I have honors students who have only been in the country a few years but they're making headway, learning, and achieving. Big, big contrast. These kids simply don't accept a lower standard for themselves. I wish all our students would follow their example.

32 posted on 10/13/2012 8:19:13 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: HangnJudge

Uhh, go take a look at The Bell Curve. It is a rational concept. Which is a very politically incorrect thing to say, but it is also reality, and there you have it.


33 posted on 10/13/2012 8:20:50 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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To: FreedomPoster

You are right, the evidence indicates that it is a rational concept. You can get in a lot of trouble for pointing this out, but it’s where the evidence leads. Look what they did to Dr. Rushton up in Canada.


34 posted on 10/13/2012 8:28:49 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: tobyhill

Black Pride:

“It’s Official! - We’re the most stupid people in the country!”


35 posted on 10/13/2012 8:35:09 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few, and let another take his office.")
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To: tobyhill

OK,

So Asians make the most money, then Whites, then Hispanics and lastly Blacks.... is that alright then ?

of course not.

People will rise to what is expected. If you expect less you get less.


36 posted on 10/13/2012 8:44:55 PM PDT by mike_9958
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To: tobyhill
and the RATS expect them to be able to get a JOB with that kind if degree???

well, i guess there's always affirmative action...

37 posted on 10/13/2012 8:50:53 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: tobyhill

Numbers be what numbers is.


38 posted on 10/13/2012 8:52:16 PM PDT by WackySam (Obama got Osama just like Nixon landed on the moon.)
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To: tobyhill
...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.

If they were smart about this, they would do what police and fire departments across the nation have been forced to do - - give each of these democraphics a different test based on its stupidity level.

39 posted on 10/13/2012 9:01:36 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: chessplayer
The racism of low expectations. Liberal nirvana.

And every time a black voter pulls the lever for a Democrat, the racism of low expectations is exactly what they are voting for.
So screw them.

40 posted on 10/13/2012 9:08:59 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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