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Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs (Benefits white students- "redesigned" to close gap)
East Bay Express ^ | 12-23-09 | Eric Klein

Posted on 12/27/2009 10:55:23 AM PST by civilwar2

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To: civilwar2

What a bunch of racist crap. As if there are no Asian students in this mix, but they single out the white kids. Its not much of stretch to compare the left in this country to Nazis and the Nazi jew obsession.


21 posted on 12/27/2009 11:43:22 AM PST by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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To: civilwar2
Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut. Have I got that right?
22 posted on 12/27/2009 11:51:23 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
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To: civilwar2

Surely, this is satire. Right?


23 posted on 12/27/2009 11:59:27 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (There is no "O" in Transparency.)
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To: civilwar2

An admission that pretending that something is so—including those Hollywood movies where the most brilliant scientist in the world is always played by Will Smith or Morgan Freeman—isn’t working.

Once again, life approaches Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s “Harrison Bergeron.”


24 posted on 12/27/2009 12:00:27 PM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
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To: thecodont

But, but ... ambition is unfair. It leaves the slothful behind. Can’t have that.


25 posted on 12/27/2009 12:01:22 PM PST by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: artichokegrower

Well, it is pretty clear that most parents who care about their children’s education will supplement it with summer science courses with labs etc.

This proposal will hurt poor minority kids the most. We have a progressive left wing nut in Maine that wants to eliminate all homework in the name of equality. The children of the well educated will still study and work at home.
It will reduce the upward mobility of the poor.


26 posted on 12/27/2009 12:12:45 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Two lab sciences are REQUIRED to get into that other famous Berkeley institution, UC Berkeley. They prefer three. So I guess Berkeley High students won’t be eligible to even apply.


27 posted on 12/27/2009 12:12:59 PM PST by californianmom
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To: FreeAtlanta

Well I as noted in a previous post, we have a “Progessive” elitist left wing nut in Bar Harbor who wants to eliminate all homework from the public schools. So this proposal is not surprising.


28 posted on 12/27/2009 12:14:15 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: civilwar2

Science classes are to be replaced by ebonics?

In all seriousness, parents who love their children must find a way to get them out of the government schools. Sacrifice some lifestyle if you must, but get them out.


29 posted on 12/27/2009 12:17:57 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: civilwar2
Science teachers were understandably horrified by the proposal.

LMAO!!!
If they vote Democrat then they should just STFU and take their medicine.

30 posted on 12/27/2009 12:21:21 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: civilwar2

Double the budget for Black & Latino studies and cut science, math and English. That will help the Black & Latino students get into college and get a good job.


31 posted on 12/27/2009 12:23:09 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Copenhagen Climate Summit; Shovel Ready)
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To: civilwar2

Wow Berkley and the creos at FR are in agreement......just say no to science


32 posted on 12/27/2009 12:25:11 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: civilwar2

Wow Berkley and the creos at FR are in agreement......just say no to science


33 posted on 12/27/2009 12:25:29 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: freekitty
Probably the IQ gap.
34 posted on 12/27/2009 1:01:58 PM PST by Wahoo82
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To: civilwar2

Eliminate everything but basketball!


35 posted on 12/27/2009 1:06:54 PM PST by Renkluaf
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To: bert
I see very little handwringing on this thread, about just how dangerous this is to science.

Oh well, thank goodness or whatever, they're not teaching [Gasp!] Intelligent Design.

36 posted on 12/27/2009 1:19:13 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: civilwar2

Heck, science labs actually demonstate that science is more than theory and consensus. We can’t have those nasty white kids growing up to ask questions of Al Gore and the climatologists. We need them to trust in government and Al Gore, like the rest of the world.


37 posted on 12/27/2009 1:30:04 PM PST by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: civilwar2

Cut all science and math classes at any school in Berkley.

Berkley students deserve to have minimum wage jobs.

They aren’t worth for the evil capitalist high paying professions.


38 posted on 12/27/2009 1:58:10 PM PST by Chewbacca (My gun has killed less people than Vice Pres Biden's motorcade.)
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To: californianmom
Two lab sciences are REQUIRED to get into that other famous Berkeley institution, UC Berkeley. They prefer three.

Still? And also two years of foreign language? And math through at least trig?

In this Day And Age? They haven't Progressed at all in the last 45 years?

How can that be? This is, after all, The Century of the Fruity Moon Bat!


39 posted on 12/27/2009 2:05:01 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Now they won’t even have the skills to split the coke or produce methamphetamine. Whitey and Jorge are working to keep the brother down.


40 posted on 12/27/2009 2:11:24 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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