Florida Board of Education approves race-based academic goals

[ScubaCinci]

Wow...while everyone preaches racial harmony and treating everyone equally, we continue to see things like that that do just the opposite. You can't teach kids that they are the same and just as good as the next student and then hold them to a different (sub)standard. No wonder this country and schools are so effed up.

http://thegrio.com/2012/10/12/florida-education-board-approves-race-based-academic-goals/

The criticism is about the disparity between each group’s goals. According to the plan, the state wants 90 percent of Asian, 88 percent of white, 82 percent of American Indian, 81 percent of Hispanic and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level by the year 2018.

For math, the state set goals of 92 percent for Asian, 86 percent for white, 81 percent for American Indian, 80 percent for Hispanic and 74 percent for black students.

Edited October 15, 2012 by ScubaCinci

[jbot]

that's got to be pretty upsetting for all you non-asian people.

better luck next year.

[magley64]

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[redkow97]

I saw this yesterday on Facebook. I assumed it was from TheOnion...

[Jst2fst]

[Bad324]

oh joy my girlfriend should get a kick out of this

[ReconRat]

I suppose the alternative is to set goals equal, resulting in high numbers of students failing to move up and having to repeat a grade level. End result would appear to be "lifers" in high school, and a broken education system that wouldn't be able to afford the overload of students. Students repeating grade levels would eventually give up and drop out, and nothing would be gained.

Goals were no doubt set on existing averages, and the truth will hurt.

Although the thoroughly liberal response should have been low goals for everyone with entitlements for failures. Resulting in excellent success rates in graduation... of poorly trained high school students. I think that's about what we have already.

[redkow97]

how is it not racist to expect less from some ethnic groups? Isn't that a blatant acknowledgment that certain races are academically inferior to others? As such, this should be an unconstitutional policy for use in public schools, no?

the government is legally bound to not discriminate, thus it cannot expect more from asians than any other race. The only (legally acceptable) answer is to lower the standards for all races, or simply fail people who don't meet the existing standards.

Why is the latter such an issue? It's not really a "standard" if you're creating artificial equality.

[ReconRat]

Goals should be set in between. Some succeed, and some fail. I think that's the way it used to be, back when K-12 students got a pretty decent education. If something is wrong, it's the educational system itself, not the students so much.

The increasing number of entry level college students that need a year of remedial reading/writing/math study in order to even enter college, pretty much gives an indication.