Florida to Grade Blacks and Hispanics differently from Whites.

[Yuppie Grinder]

http://www.alternet.org/florida-grade-black-students-different-scale-white-students
Racist as hell.

[hetz]

That's idiocy. It's a mockery of education and school standards.
Lol what's wrong with America that, despite all these billions, they still can't set-up a half-decent educational system?

[Ocean Seal]

And then they ask us why we can't achieve.

[mew]

would like jimmie higgins to comment. reminds me of things he as said about how capitalists don't really need skilled, educated workers as much anymore as the economy shifts to more service sector jobs so they're doing things like this to the school system more and more.

[l'Enfermé]

This sounds like something from The Onion.

[Jimmie Higgins]

would like jimmie higgins to comment. reminds me of things he as said about how capitalists don't really need skilled, educated workers as much anymore as the economy shifts to more service sector jobs so they're doing things like this to the school system more and more.

Wow. Yeah I want to read more about this. My knee-jerk thought is that this is what happens when the absurd logic of national bureaucracy meets the absurd logic of the local bureaucracy. The attempt to re-organize public education from the top (undoing the post-war concepts of public school and education being open to everyone) is definitely the backdrop for this in my opinion though.

Bush and Obama's impossible standards for local schools and the whole "race to the top" where schools are being "rewarded for achievement" + material neglect and 30 years of reducing funding + structural racism = the local schools thinking, well there's no way to make up for this, so let's just fudge the numbers.

When bourgeois pretensions of reason and rational logic come head-on to the absurd illogical material reality in capitalism.


While numerical-based goals are important for school districts to get funding and function, these kinds of blowups are examples of the shortcomings of a numbers-based, testing-based approach.Yeah, ya think?

[Jimmie Higgins]

That's idiocy. It's a mockery of education and school standards.
Lol what's wrong with America that, despite all these billions, they still can't set-up a half-decent educational system?We had something like that at one point. In the 1960s, UC Berkeley cost a few hundred a year because the whole idea of the California public university system was that they could be open to anyone regardless of class (of course race was probably still a different matter). Now? $10,000+. That's not just inflation.

It's "won't" not "can't" and it's an organized attempt from the top. People like Bill Gates are a part of this attempt to bring neo-liberal logic to the public education system - it already largely has*, actually, it just hasn't been privatized/charterized yet.