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I am a parent, I base school decisions for my children on a variety of measures such as...
Curriculum used at the school (I go to the school and look at the books, I request the lessons plans from he previous school year that my child is entering that particular grade)
Credentials and experience of the teachers (I review certifications of teachers of my children, especially my youngest who is elemetary aged. I ask other teachers about that teacher, the principal and other parents. I also luckily am from a family of educators so many of my trusted former school teacher/administrator family members give me the low down on teachers as a result)
Test scores (based on our state standardized test and on nationally normed test like MAP and ACT/SAT, my son is in high school, his school is one of the best schools in the country based on various online databases like US News primarily due to high proficiency of graduates in math, reading and ACT/SAT scores)
Is it ranked in the US News Top 100?
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ETA: I wills state I looked at your former post with links. Like always, you seem to believe that one standardized test is indicative of a good quality education.
There's a reason for that, and it has to do with the extensive analysis (over 230,000 students at 214 colleges and universities) that was done to determine the benchmark scores required to reflect adequate academic preparation to take freshman level classes in college:
As an educated parent, I know that that is not the case, however, my son's high school requires all of their 11th graders to take the ACT. Due to having an outstanding curriculum, their students do well on all the tests that they take.
What's the school's students' average ACT Composite score?
Get over it. Hundreds of years of Wrongs have to be set right, and slavery, Jim Crow and decades of institutional racism lasted far longer than AA has till this point.
That might make you mad, but I've got nothing to do with that.
So one previous racism justifies current racism?
Racism is wrong, regardless whom is the target. Anybody disagrees with that is a racist!
You think, the enormous amount of illegal immigrants in our country is no threat to Black people or people in general?
Who's going to pay for their education, health care, welfare, unemployment, food stamps...? Our government currently has 17 trillion debt if you haven't noticed. Even if we could, why should we? Shouldn't we use our money more wisely like looking after our own citizens first?
How does that enormous amount of illegal immigrants impact our job market? Given blacks are amount the highest unemployed, would you not think the illegals would threaten the jobs available to blacks?
Nice try. I am well aware of where the largest groups of illegal immigrants originate. That does not change the fact that amnesty affects some people of African descent. And FYI, people of African descent have live in nations outside of Africa as well, including nations in South America.
As a first generation American of African descent, I am not threatened by illegals. In fact, I know not one legal immigrant or first-gen of African descent in my family or otherwise who feels at all threatened in terms of their career due to illegal immigration.
AGAIN, my point is to stop acting as though there are not immigrants of African descent, legal or illegal. Stop acting as though one cannot be Latino and of African descent. People of African descent are more diverse and consider more issues than many of your minds grasp.
Would Blacks even take any suggestions seriously? Or are they good with letting Dems keep their kids trapped in abysmally performing public schools to keep the teachers unions happy so their donations keep pouring in, etc.?
Red states and inner-cities generally have the worst schools.
How did I decide for them? I merely pointed out a very likely consequence of their voting if anybody have learned anything from the last amnesty.
"Black people know that voting Democrat is in their best interest," sure they do. I was listening NRP one day about why people voting for Sanders. Somehow the reporter pointed out the race for each interviewee. Each and every black person, men and women, said the reason they will vote for Sanders or Clinton is FREE STUFF, free college, free health care, more welfare, free this and free that.
Since you so want to tell them how to vote, why don't you step away from your computer and go hang out in an all-Black neighborhood, stand on a corner or outside a convenience store and approach real Black people and tell them what you blather on about here. Please, go, preach, and revel in all the praise you'll receive.
Or, go to the same place and start asking Black people why they don't vote Republican. You might learn something other than what you hear on your right wing radio and television stations.
Since you so want to tell them how to vote, why don't you step away from your computer and go hang out in an all-Black neighborhood, stand on a corner or outside a convenience store and approach real Black people and tell them what you blather on about here. Please, go, preach, and revel in all the praise you'll receive.
Or, go to the same place and start asking Black people why they don't vote Republican. You might learn something other than what you hear on your right wing radio and television stations.
What did you learn?
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