Uproar at NYC’s posh Dalton School after faculty issues 8-page anti-racism manifesto (drugs, ideology)
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Whether I'm and alumni or have children at the school is of no concern. It's about the dumbing down of America. This course is too hard for blacks to pass it so lets just eliminate it instead of actually preparing the kids for the hard courses kind of thing.
Having advanced placement classes in school can make a huge difference on whether a kid gets into a decent college or even into college at all. This is particularly important for lower income students who may need scholarships to afford college. I'm sure some of those kids are there on some kind of scholarship - if they are, they should strive to achieve.
And yes, private schools can do whatever they want but dumbing down classes or tests for kids should never be a policy at any school - public or private.
In NY, to pass a regent exam for graduation, you only need a score of 65. Where my son actually went to (public) school, a grade below 70 in anything was a failing grade. NY lowered the required score because too many kids weren't passing. Maybe they should focus on improving the schools instead.
I'm pretty sure other schools are doing the same thing in other areas but they don't make the national papers. And the worst thing about the whole policy is that it continues to hold back black children and then people can scream "income inequality" and "racism" is the problem. No, dumbing down of students is the problem. Start fixing it at the school level and everything else falls into place.
You clearly are not familiar with the school. There are no ap classes. Private schools do not require regents. If you care so much you should be better informed before giving an opinion.
You are pretty sure of not too much.
Classes are dumbed down all the time. Quite common so that lesser students can say they took the ap level - even when they don’t take the test.
It's both concerning and maddening that these "schools" insist that the curriculum be dumbed down to accommodate students of a certain color. I'm sure the staff sign on to this nonsense; their jobs are at stake, after all.
How reverse racist is this?
Stop the coddling. Stop the race baiting. Stop watering down the curriculums. In fact, I'm all for making it more challenging. Our world demands it.
Proposing is not enacting. They are not the decision makers. I know the school and I doubt this will come to pass.
Well, then they'll be called racist, because that's what happens.
Remember everyone making fun of Kansas for not teaching evolution in school (proposal)?
Well, it was proposed by a board that had a fundamentalist on it that got some buddies to run for the board and then tried to remove evolution teaching. They were immediately stripped of any power to do anything and nothing was enacted.
Did that stop late night TV and a host of others, many with political axes to grind.
Untrue.
There are however profound cultural differences and nuanced parenting differences, that are the actual culprits in the scholastic disparity between groups.
You deny that there are genetic differences between racial & ethnic groups?
There are documented hormonal, cognitive, physical, behavioral, and immune system differences between various racial & ethnic groups. There are certain medications you can give to European people that you cannot give to African people, due to genetic differences and the side-effects of such medications. There are numerous genetic differences among varying human populations.
"If the races did not differ in brain size, these correlations could not have been found. It must be concluded that the race differences in average brain size are securely established. As such, brain size-related variables provide the most likely biological mediators of the race differences in intelligence." https://www.researchgate.net/publica...keletal_traits
Intelligence (IQ) is probably one of the strongest factors that positively correlates with overall life success, financial success, and academic success. The average IQ of a nation is a really good predictor of its overall GDP & the average financial success of its citizens.
IQ predictions can be accurately made on the individual level and larger collective level (nation, ethnic or racial group)
The basis that so many factors (academic success, financial success, national GDP, etc) can be accurately correlated to IQ measurements is strong evidence that intelligence (IQ) is one of the best overall facets that can be measured to predict the success of an individual or a larger group of people.
Well, then they'll be called racist, because that's what happens.
Remember everyone making fun of Kansas for not teaching evolution in school (proposal)?
Well, it was proposed by a board that had a fundamentalist on it that got some buddies to run for the board and then tried to remove evolution teaching. They were immediately stripped of any power to do anything and nothing was enacted.
Did that stop late night TV and a host of others, many with political axes to grind.
Who is going to call them racists, you? The families who want their children to attend? Potential teachers that they can’t replace? Alumni funders who give money?
Anybody who matters?
"One of NYC’s poshest private schools is in an uproar over an anti-racist manifesto signed by dozens of faculty members with a sweeping list of demands.
The Dalton School — which boasts stars Anderson Cooper, Christian Slater and Claire Danes as alumni — is wrestling with eight pages of “proposals” to overhaul the staffing, curriculum and treatment of black students.
Yearly tuition for grades K-12 at the Upper East Side institution is $54,180 a year."
This is one of the demands that really set me off:
"Abolishing high-level academic courses by 2023 if the performance of black students is not on par with non-blacks."
So if the black students don't perform as well as white students, lets just kill the hard courses all together instead of teaching the kids to better prepare them for the hard courses. /s
Makes about as much sense as NY lowering the required scores for standardized testing because too many kids weren't passing them.
Look at the new Jim Crow, same as the old Jim Crow.
You deny that there are genetic differences between racial & ethnic groups?
There are documented hormonal, cognitive, physical, behavioral, and immune system differences between various racial & ethnic groups. There are certain medications you can give to European people that you cannot give to African people, due to genetic differences and the side-effects of such medications. There are numerous genetic differences among varying human populations.
"If the races did not differ in brain size, these correlations could not have been found. It must be concluded that the race differences in average brain size are securely established. As such, brain size-related variables provide the most likely biological mediators of the race differences in intelligence." https://www.researchgate.net/publica...keletal_traits
Intelligence (IQ) is probably one of the strongest factors that positively correlates with overall life success, financial success, and academic success. The average IQ of a nation is a really good predictor of its overall GDP & the average financial success of its citizens.
IQ predictions can be accurately made on the individual level and larger collective level (nation, ethnic or racial group)
The basis that so many factors (academic success, financial success, national GDP, etc) can be accurately correlated to IQ measurements is strong evidence that intelligence (IQ) is one of the best overall facets that can be measured to predict the success of an individual or a larger group of people.
The strongest factor is having 2 parents. Nothing else comes close.
Who is going to call them racists, you? The families who want their children to attend? Potential teachers that they can’t replace? Alumni funders who give money?
Anybody who matters?
It's 2020, apparently you don't understand how the extremely *woke* folks operate.
Ignoring demands leads to accusations of racism and protests.
Since they aren't people "that matter" then you are all good. Besides, the powerful peoples kids go there so you won't get piled on by politicians like has happened in the past.
Please note, I'm not saying it's racist...I'm just explaining how SJW 101 works. If you disagree, you are defacto racist...not logical but that's never stopped them yet.
P.S. Are you familiar with the NAACP's *relationship* with charter schools?
It's 2020, apparently you don't understand how the extremely *woke* folks operate.
Ignoring demands leads to accusations of racism and protests.
Since they aren't people "that matter" then you are all good. Besides, the powerful peoples kids go there so you won't get piled on by politicians like has happened in the past.
Please note, I'm not saying it's racist...I'm just explaining how SJW 101 works. If you disagree, you are defacto racist...not logical but that's never stopped them yet.
P.S. Are you familiar with the NAACP's *relationship* with charter schools?
Answering demands is not agreeing to the demands or ignoring the demands. Of course I read the headmasters most recent letter. He is not ignoring it but I would bet he will not allow many/most of the demands to be enacted. Some of the demands seem reasonable and some seem outrageous (to me).
Dalton is not a charter a school and I do not know it’s relationship to the naacp.
Pre marital sex attitudes, anti choice, insistence on a belief in god and Jesus, lack of testing for graduation requirements, limited resources for classified students. Any of these things would make me reject the school for my own children.
Is separating children based on race OK with you? The things you listed above have been a part of mainstream society for a long time, not just parochial schools, the demands being made by this faculty in the original article have not. Not only are these demands incredibly divisive to the children, they will be divisive to the faculty as well. How would you feel if the company you worked for was paying down all the student debt of the people of color in your office but you were excluded because you were white?
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