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“Through our collective work, advanced classes such as AP and Honors will have proportional representation,” read the letter. “Proportional representation is 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.”--John Handley High School, Winchester, Virginia |
If your high school children were outstanding students, but the school's administration told you that "Advanced Placement and honors classes [would be] at least partly based on skin color", how would you feel? This question is one that now faces parents of children at one Virginia high school - and yes, the school admits to this discrimination. In fact, they sent a letter to parents and bragged about it. Todd Starnes has the story.
Clearly, this high "school" in Virginia cannot possibly educate anyone, given that academic achievement is now measured by ethnicity rather than success at learning. Is this failure specific to this bigotted school, or is the problem more widespread?
From what Walter Williams tells us, the answer must be that the failure of American high schools to get their job done is widespread, and not at all limited to our high schools:
During a recent University of North Carolina scandal, a learning specialist hired to help athletes found that during the period from 2004 to 2012, 60 percent of the 183 members of the football and basketball teams read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. About 10 percent read below a third-grade level. These were students with high-school diplomas and admitted to UNC. And it's not likely that UNC is the only university engaging in such gross fraud.
This is a professor?
Bruce Bawer's The Decline and Fall of an Academic Nitwit takes aim at bigotted (and stupid) racist "professor" Kevin Allred, who taught a thoroughly useless course called "Politicizing Beyoncé”, and advocated shooting white students. For that threat, he was fired. And immediately hired by another "university". Allred's sorry tale isn't as important as Bawer's conclusions, however:
As for American higher education, it'll be OK, too. Fortunately for the college students of New Jersey, the nation's graduate programs are pumping out plenty of Ph.D.s capable of stepping into Allred's shoes and filling their urgent need for a professor with whom they can talk about music videos.
Whether they'll be able to write a coherent sentence, tell you what year the Civil War ended, or name the author of War and Peace when they graduate is, of course, another question.
Precisely.
I can hear @everittdmickey's response already: if it's not STEM it's a hobby. they can pay for their own damn hobbies. end tax support.. Amen.
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But no worries: in today's culture, a guy like this is bound to find a professional position worthy of his, er, gifts. As for American higher education, it'll be OK, too. Fortunately for the college students of New Jersey, the nation's graduate programs are pumping out plenty of Ph.D.s capable of stepping into Allred's shoes and filling their urgent need for a professor with whom they can talk about music videos.
Whether they'll be able to write a coherent sentence, tell you what year the Civil War ended, or name the author of War and Peace when they graduate is, of course, another question.
A Minnesota school educating students K-12 has instituted a new gender inclusion policy that offers absolutely no chance for parents to opt out as conscientious objectors.
According to The Daily Signal, Nova Classical Academy caved in to the demands of political correctness after facing a lawsuit from two aggrieved parents blaming the school's backward policies of not being inclusive enough on gender for the "bullying and hostility" directed at their transgender child and other gender "nonconforming" students.
The University of Minnesota offers a safe space that is open only to LGBT persons of color. Straight white people need not apply.
U of M’s Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life hosts the group Tongues Untied, described as “a space by and for People of Color who identify as LGBTQIA and/or Same-Gender-Loving.” The group is named after a documentary of the same name. It’s mission is to “connect students, staff, faculty, and the Twin Cities community” on issues of race, sexuality, and gender, unless your white and not queer or trans:
A Virginia high sent a disturbing letter to parents and students announcing they would be selecting students for Advanced Placement and honors classes at least partly based on skin color, a concerned parent told Fox News.
Martin Luther King, Jr. must be turning over in his grave.
And the totalitarian bullying from college Social Justice Warriors continues...
Some of the aforementioned bullies at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College, one of the country's most expensive and LGBT-friendly private schools, recently demanded that fellow students pay campus activists for their “emotional labor,” according to The Blaze.
Many students who manage to graduate don't have a lot to show for their time and money. New York University professor Richard Arum, co-author of "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," says that his study shows that more than a third of students showed no improvement in critical thinking skills after four years at a university. That observation is confirmed by the many employers who complain that lots of recent graduates cannot seem to write an email that will not embarrass the company. In 1970, only 11 percent of adult Americans held college degrees. These degree holders were viewed as the nation's best and brightest. Today, over 30 percent hold college degrees, with a significant portion of these graduates not demonstrably smarter or more disciplined than the average American. Declining academic standards and grade inflation tend to confirm employer perceptions that college degrees say little about job readiness.
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