Test Prep

[Unkotare]

What makes you think so?

Because I know how it works in some of the countries to which American students are frequently compared. Don't be a sucker.

 

[Unkotare]

I agree, it is. It's making up for 400 years of white preference and supremacy.

"Making up for" doesn't work, even if it soothes your pathetic 'guilt.'

 

[JoeB131]

It is not only about that. I can't believe you didn't even once experience this subjectivity on your own.

Oh, I definitely did. I lost a job opportunity to an affirmative action hire a few years ago, and when she did the job, she was utterly useless.

And you know what, I got over it. Eventually I got a much better job because being a white male, I am vastly advantaged in the job market. (Although being a college educated veteran also helps.)

You can't tell black people to work hard and then they never get any of the good jobs or opportunities.

 

[Unkotare]

... I lost a job opportunity to an affirmative action hire a few years ago,...

Sure you did, loser.

 

[JoeB131]

"Making up for" doesn't work, even if it soothes your pathetic 'guilt.'

Sure it does. Affirmative Action has created a black middle class...

It's not about my guilt. I am going to be fine no matter what. I've bounced back from every setback I've had in my life and I've had a lot of them.

Now, I could be a selfish prick and say "I live in a nice neighborhood, I have a nice job, a nice house, a nice car and things are going well. I've got mine, fuck you."

But other people having oppurtunities doesn't take anything away from me.

 

[JoeB131]

Sure you did, loser.

Actually, yes, I did... I was on a contract and was being considered for a full time position, and they hired an African American woman instead.

But then I got a better job because an Asian-American woman I was nice to over a decade ago helped me network into that position.

You approach the universe with good intentions, things often work out.

 

[Unkotare]

Sure it does. ...

Wrong.

 

[Unkotare]

...

It's not about my guilt. ....

That's ALL it's about.

 

[Unkotare]

...they hired an African American woman instead.
...

Because she was better than you, as almost everyone is.

 

[JoeB131]

Because she was better than you, as almost everyone is.

Actually, no, she really wasn't. If she was, she wouldn't have had to kept asking me how to do her job a year into it.

 

[Unkotare]

Actually, no, she really wasn't. ....

You need to keep telling yourself, loser.

 

[Grumblenuts]

The problems with standardized testing range far beyond concerns about affirmative action or who gets compared to whom elsewhere. Of course having standards is a good idea where practical, but we live in a country where education has increasingly turned into a commodity. Teaching to the test, meaning forget your culture or where you reasonably expect to live -- we're just going to focus on these ridiculously expensive, internationally standardized tests published by billionaires so that you're best prepared to work for any multinational corporation anywhere. And if you don't do well, the billionaires will see to it that your entire school is punished and that you're marked as a hopeless loser for life.

 

[Rogue AI]

Get over yourself, ignorant dope.

So this is what all the unions dues yields. Color me unimpressed.

 

[Grumblenuts]

Simply expressing disagreement teaches what?

 

[Unkotare]

Actually, no, she really wasn't. If she was, she wouldn't have had to kept asking me how to do her job a year into it.

You are, of course, full of shit.

 

[JoeB131]

You are, of course, full of shit.

Actually, she still asked me because everyone else was kind of sick of her not learning her job or spending half her workday on Amazon....

But, hey, at least she had a real job, unlike you.

 

[Unkotare]

Actually, she still asked me because everyone else was kind of sick of her not learning her job or spending half her workday on Amazon....

.....

No one believes you, clown.

 

[JoeB131]

No one believes you, clown.

Yet you seem awfully invested, DrippingPoop.

Have you told the school board about your fetish yet?

 

[Unkotare]

Yet you seem awfully invested, DrippingPoop.

Have you told the school board about your fetish yet?

Want to try making any sense at all, clown?