Another Slap In The Face Of Black Folks

[PoliticalChic]

Reality is defined by actions, not by words.

Perhaps the single understanding that divides adults from children is understanding and seeing life through that prism.


1. Democrats that the term 'equal' applies to the group without whose vote they could never win a national election....well, that and Dominion voting machines.
Yet their actions belie that concept.
They constantly make special rules and regulations for black Americans.


3. Which brings me to today's ending the 'special' in NYC Specialized High Schools.
"NYC Kills Testing for Gifted and Talented Programs
You can’t have both equity and excellence. To impose the former is to abolish the latter. That’s why New York City schools are doing away with testing for their Gifted and Talented programs:

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday the city will start phasing out the entry exam.
Critics have said the composition of the programs do not reflect the city’s diversity.

The testing reflects aptitude, as it is intended to do. The very concept of aptitude is wrongthink. According to liberal dogma, if whites and Asians score higher on tests than blacks and Hispanics, the only permissible explanation is racism. If it proves impossible to contrive tests where whites and Asians do not score higher, this indicates that the very concept of testing is racist.
Actually racist NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza proclaims that educrats will “reimagine” how to determine which students would benefit from accelerated instruction — you know, the way riot–endorsing leftist radicals want to “reimagine” law enforcement in the name of Black Lives Matter.







4. Chancellor Richard A. Carranza

@DOEChancellor
Gifted & Talented programs serve a small percentage of children—but we know many more @NYCSchools students are exceptional. We must move away from the test & develop a system that reimagines academic and enrichment programming for our most exceptional students.
9:14 PM · Jan 12, 2021




5. Hot Air is appalled:

So if you’re going to do away with the admissions testing system, how do you replace that with something that produces your desired demographic result? If it just works out to be some sort of lottery, then why have an advanced studies program at all? You’re not going to randomly pick up the most advanced students. Further, how is that fair to the children? If a kid who isn’t able to score well on the placement tests suddenly gets shoved into a significantly more advanced program, they’re almost certainly going to flounder. Then you have to either boot them back to the regular school curriculum or dumb down the advanced class to the point where they can pass. If you follow the latter route, you’ve eliminated the benefit of having a gifted and talented program in the first place."

NYC Kills Testing for Gifted and Talented Programs

You can’t have both equity and excellence. To impose the former is to abolish the latter. That’s why New York City schools are doing away with testing for their Gifted and Talented programs: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday the city will start phasing...

moonbattery.com

 

[kyzr]

Maybe that's why so many are fleeing NY for better run states?
(Hint: Not CA)

 

[PoliticalChic]

Maybe that's why so many are fleeing NY for better run states?
(Hint: Not CA)

I've seen that for business purposes, but not for schools.

After all, there is still the ability to home school....we're a NYC family who home schooled.

You know that 'education' is hardly the main focus of government schooling.

 

[Gdjjr]

Authoritarians reimagine a lot- and not very well either.

 

[Gdjjr]

You know that 'education' is hardly the main focus of government schooling.

Sadly, education is merely passing on knowledge- IMproper education is rooted in lies and deceit, not truth- truth is constant, all else is merely knowledge which evolves-

 

[PoliticalChic]

You know that 'education' is hardly the main focus of government schooling.

Sadly, education is merely passing on knowledge- IMproper education is rooted in lies and deceit, not truth- truth is constant, all else is merely knowledge which evolves-

Excellent point!

Without character and morality, this is what education produces:

1. "One piece of the Krueger-Maleckova evidence involves 129 members of Hezbollah who died in action, mostly against Israel, from 1982 to 1994. Hezbollah is now designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Biographical information from the Hezbollah newspaper al-Ahd indicates that the fighters who died were, on average, more educated and less impoverished than the Lebanese population of comparable age and regional origin." The Myth That Poverty Breeds Terrorism

and......" a study by Charles Russell and Bowman Miller (reprinted in the 1983 book Perspectives on Terrorism) considered 18 revolutionary groups, including the Japanese Red Army, Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang, and Italy's Red Brigades. The authors found that "the vast majority of those individuals involved in terrorist activities as cadres or leaders is quite well-educated. In fact, approximately two-thirds of those identified terrorists are persons with some university training, [and] well over two-thirds of these individuals came from the middle or upper classes in their respective nations or areas."Ibid.


2. Fidel Castro was a talented student, and decided to pursue a career in law, entering the University of Havana Law School in 1945. After graduating law school, he opened a law office that primarily catered for poor Cubans, although it proved a financial failure.

Fidel Castro Biography - life, family, parents, story, history, school, mother, young, son, old, information, born

3. …men who belonged to violent Islamist groups active over the past few decades (some in jail, some not). Had those groups reflected the working-age populations of their countries, engineers would have made up about 3.5 percent of the membership. Instead, nearly 20 percent of the militants had engineering degrees. When Gambetta and Hertog looked at only the militants whose education was known for certain to have gone beyond high school, close to half (44 percent) had trained in engineering.
Today's Highly Educated Terrorists | The National Interest Blog

The National Interest: Blog

4. Pol Pot, was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge[3] and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976–1979. Pol Pot's leadership, in which he attempted to "cleanse" the country, resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7–2.5 million people…. he qualified for a scholarship that allowed for technical study in France. He studied radio electronics at the EFR in Paris from 1949 to 1953 Pol Pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

5. Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan, who had studied in Paris, wrote in his doctoral dissertation that the Cambodian economy and social structure would be renewed by tapping “the dormant energy of the peasant mass” against the cities. “Kissinger, “The White House Years,” p. 518.

6. Ernesto "Che" Guevara "the man was a mass killer. Hundreds were reportedly executed on his watch" Why Do people love a mass murder like Che? // Current

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (1928-1967) was an Argentine physician... Biography of Ernesto Che Guevara, Revolutionary Leader


As a young boy growing up, he had a passion for education, literature and philosophy. Mao Zedong
"he worked as a doctor. Che Guevara : Biography

7. Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, April 22, 1870….In 1891 he passed the law examinations at the University of St. Petersburg as an external student, scoring first in his class. He practiced law briefly in Samara before devoting himself to the revolutionary movement. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), 1870-1924

8. Bashar al-Assad is the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party, and the son of former President Hafez al-Assad. Al-Assad is a controversial figure both in Syria and Internationally… for his disregard for human rights, economic lapses, sponsorship of terrorism, and corruption. Bashar studied ophthalmology at Damascus University 1988 and arrived in London in 1992 to continue his studies. Bashar al-Assad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





9. Mao was a rebellious teen-ager. His father wanted him to be a farmer; Mao wanted more education beyond the village grammar school. Mao left home at age 13 to attend an advanced school in a nearby district and in 1911 arrived in Changsha, the provincial capital, to attend secondary school…. He tried law enforcement, business and history before settling on education, graduating from a teachers' training school in 1918. He departed for Beijing to attend the university. CNN In-Depth Specials - Visions of China - Profiles: Mao Tse-tung



10.Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri received his master's degree in surgery from Cairo University.... http://www.biography.com/people/ayman-al-zawahiri-241182



11. Nidal Hasan, Abdulmutallab and Humam al-Balawi are jihadists who were educated and came from privileged middle- and upper-class backgrounds. Hasan was an American-trained U. S. Army doctor, Abdulmutallab was a London engineering student and the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, and double-agent Dr. Humam al-Balawi was a member of the Jordanian professional class. http://frontpagemag.com/2010/wm-b-fankboner/the-educated-muslim-terrorist/

 

[PoliticalChic]

New York’s specialized high schools including Stuyvesant and the equally storied Bronx High School of Science, along with Brooklyn Technical High School and five smaller schools, have produced 14 Nobel Laureates—more than most countries. For more than 70 years, admission to these schools has been based upon a competitive examination of math, verbal, and logical reasoning skills.


Under the Wehrmacht....er, Democrat control, these schools will be gone.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Reality is defined by actions, not by words.

Perhaps the single understanding that divides adults from children is understanding and seeing life through that prism.


1. Democrats that the term 'equal' applies to the group without whose vote they could never win a national election....well, that and Dominion voting machines.
Yet their actions belie that concept.
They constantly make special rules and regulations for black Americans.


3. Which brings me to today's ending the 'special' in NYC Specialized High Schools.
"NYC Kills Testing for Gifted and Talented Programs
You can’t have both equity and excellence. To impose the former is to abolish the latter. That’s why New York City schools are doing away with testing for their Gifted and Talented programs:

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday the city will start phasing out the entry exam.
Critics have said the composition of the programs do not reflect the city’s diversity.

The testing reflects aptitude, as it is intended to do. The very concept of aptitude is wrongthink. According to liberal dogma, if whites and Asians score higher on tests than blacks and Hispanics, the only permissible explanation is racism. If it proves impossible to contrive tests where whites and Asians do not score higher, this indicates that the very concept of testing is racist.
Actually racist NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza proclaims that educrats will “reimagine” how to determine which students would benefit from accelerated instruction — you know, the way riot–endorsing leftist radicals want to “reimagine” law enforcement in the name of Black Lives Matter.




4. Chancellor Richard A. Carranza
@DOEChancellor
Gifted & Talented programs serve a small percentage of children—but we know many more @NYCSchools students are exceptional. We must move away from the test & develop a system that reimagines academic and enrichment programming for our most exceptional students.
9:14 PM · Jan 12, 2021


5. Hot Air is appalled:

So if you’re going to do away with the admissions testing system, how do you replace that with something that produces your desired demographic result? If it just works out to be some sort of lottery, then why have an advanced studies program at all? You’re not going to randomly pick up the most advanced students. Further, how is that fair to the children? If a kid who isn’t able to score well on the placement tests suddenly gets shoved into a significantly more advanced program, they’re almost certainly going to flounder. Then you have to either boot them back to the regular school curriculum or dumb down the advanced class to the point where they can pass. If you follow the latter route, you’ve eliminated the benefit of having a gifted and talented program in the first place."

NYC Kills Testing for Gifted and Talented Programs

You can’t have both equity and excellence. To impose the former is to abolish the latter. That’s why New York City schools are doing away with testing for their Gifted and Talented programs: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday the city will start phasing...

moonbattery.com

Poor kids can be just as smart as white kids

 

[PoliticalChic]

The mayor argues that relying solely on the test creates a “rich-get-richer” dynamic that benefits the wealthy, who can afford expensive test preparation.
The Plot Against Merit




Everything Progressives say is a lie.



"The poor students get into such schools through hard work and sacrifice—both their own and that of their parents.
The students typically attend local tutoring programs, which proliferate in Asian neighborhoods, starting the summer after sixth grade and for several days a week, including weekends, during the school year prior to the test.

The costs are burdensome for poor and working families, but it’s a matter of priorities.


.... in an NPR story last year: “Even the lowest-paid immigrants scrape up enough money for tutoring, because those high schools are seen as the ticket to a better life” for their children. Thus, one immigrant family featured in the NPR story had spent $5,000 per year, of the parents’ combined $26,000 income as garment workers, to send their three sons to tutoring.

Their oldest boy, now a student at Stuyvesant, said of his mother, who did not speak English and, like her husband, did not finish high school in China:
“Basically, she just worked every day . . . and saved up the money.”
The Plot Against Merit by Dennis Saffran, City Journal Summer 2014

 

[BULLDOG]

Reality is defined by actions, not by words.

Perhaps the single understanding that divides adults from children is understanding and seeing life through that prism.


1. Democrats that the term 'equal' applies to the group without whose vote they could never win a national election....well, that and Dominion voting machines.
Yet their actions belie that concept.
They constantly make special rules and regulations for black Americans.


3. Which brings me to today's ending the 'special' in NYC Specialized High Schools.
"NYC Kills Testing for Gifted and Talented Programs
You can’t have both equity and excellence. To impose the former is to abolish the latter. That’s why New York City schools are doing away with testing for their Gifted and Talented programs:

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday the city will start phasing out the entry exam.
Critics have said the composition of the programs do not reflect the city’s diversity.

The testing reflects aptitude, as it is intended to do. The very concept of aptitude is wrongthink. According to liberal dogma, if whites and Asians score higher on tests than blacks and Hispanics, the only permissible explanation is racism. If it proves impossible to contrive tests where whites and Asians do not score higher, this indicates that the very concept of testing is racist.
Actually racist NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza proclaims that educrats will “reimagine” how to determine which students would benefit from accelerated instruction — you know, the way riot–endorsing leftist radicals want to “reimagine” law enforcement in the name of Black Lives Matter.




4. Chancellor Richard A. Carranza
@DOEChancellor
Gifted & Talented programs serve a small percentage of children—but we know many more @NYCSchools students are exceptional. We must move away from the test & develop a system that reimagines academic and enrichment programming for our most exceptional students.
9:14 PM · Jan 12, 2021


5. Hot Air is appalled:

So if you’re going to do away with the admissions testing system, how do you replace that with something that produces your desired demographic result? If it just works out to be some sort of lottery, then why have an advanced studies program at all? You’re not going to randomly pick up the most advanced students. Further, how is that fair to the children? If a kid who isn’t able to score well on the placement tests suddenly gets shoved into a significantly more advanced program, they’re almost certainly going to flounder. Then you have to either boot them back to the regular school curriculum or dumb down the advanced class to the point where they can pass. If you follow the latter route, you’ve eliminated the benefit of having a gifted and talented program in the first place."

NYC Kills Testing for Gifted and Talented Programs

You can’t have both equity and excellence. To impose the former is to abolish the latter. That’s why New York City schools are doing away with testing for their Gifted and Talented programs: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday the city will start phasing...

moonbattery.com

So they will make their choice based on the student's academic history instead of the outcome of one test. What is the problem with that?

 

[DGS49]

In 1975 I applied for a "professional" position with the Federal Government. Although I was a veteran I had not yet graduated from college, so the Feds provided an avenue for me to get into an administrative career without a degree. Selection was primarily by the "Professional and Administrative Career Exam" (colloquially called the "PACE Test.").

The test was an aptitude and intelligence test that was scored on a percentile basis. I scored a 98, so with my 5-point Veterans' preference, I had a 103 out of 100. When a position came open in the area where I applied, the selecting supervisor was sent the top three applicants, based on PACE Test scores. The supervisor who first got MY scores was not keen to hire someone without a college degree, and he actually tried to talk the job down so that he could hire someone with a lower score, who had a degree. But I got the job and thrived for 5 years, until I got sick of working in government.

BUT...when Jimmie Carter came in, his minions were extremely sad that this system of hiring government administrators seemed to be EXCLUDING Negroes. They essentially never showed up among the top three scores that were referred to the selecting supervisor.

What to do?

Jimmie ordered the Office of Personnel Management to modify the PACE test so that the scores would be spread proportionately among the various demographic groups.

Needless to say, there is no such test, and OPM gave up the effort after a few years, but the OLD PACE test was doomed, never to return. When Carter killed the PACE test, the hiring criteria defaulted to college grades and majors, but as I understood it, they may no distinction among colleges. So a Harvard grad with a 3.0 QPA (assuming there are such people) would be evaluated lower than a grad from Washington County Community College with a 3.5. I can't say what they are doing now; I don't care.

People who are not very intelligent (e.g., teachers) are generally opposed to granting Benefits on the basis of high test scores. For obvious reasons. It is sad that New York City, which has thus far withstood the figurative siege by the Social Justice Warriors to water down the entrance standards to these exemplary high schools, has finally given up.

Is Dennis Prager wrong when he claims that The Left destroys everything it touches? The proofs are overwhelming.