"Racial Equity" Is Really Just "Benevolent Racism"
"Racial equity" translates to denying students an education through removing minimum standards for college admission. (What's the motivation to get education if you think you can get a cushy job as an athlete? And then, whoops, you get injured, & you can barely read or do basic math.) Benevolent racism!--though it's anything but benevolent.
Joanne Jacobs writes:
"Student-athletes" will not need minimum scores on standardized tests to eligible for Division I and II sports under a proposal by an NCAA task force, reports Mark Schlabach for ESPN.Dropping scores is "part of the NCAA's eight-point plan to advance racial equity," writes Schlabach.
Many colleges no longer use SAT or ACT scores for admission, noted the National Association of Basketball Coaches in July 2020. "The tests are again being recognized as forces of institutional racism."
...So the plan is to admit unprepared students who will play football or basketball and leave college without a degree.
In University Days, James Thurber recalls an Ohio State classmate, a star tackle on the team, who while "not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter." Bolenciecwcz had to pass economics to stay eligible for the upcoming game.
One day when we were on the subject of transportation and distribution, it came Bolenciecwcz's turn to answer a question.
"Name one means of transportation," the professor said to him. No light came into the big tackle's eyes.
. . . "You may choose among steam, horse-drawn, or electrically propelled vehicles," said the instructor. "I might suggest the one which we commonly take in making long journeys across land."
There was a profound silence in which everybody stirred uneasily, including Bolenciecwcz and Mr. Bassum. Mr. Bassum abruptly broke this silence in an amazing manner. "Choo-choo-choo," he said, in a low voice, and turned instantly scarlet. He glanced appealingly around the room. All of us, of course, shared Mr. Bassum's desire that Bolenciecwcz should stay abreast of the class in economics, for the Illinois game, one of the hardest and most important of the season, was only a week off.
"Toot, toot, too-tooooooot!" some student with a deep voice moaned, and we all looked encouragingly at Bolenciecwcz. Somebody else gave a fine imitation of a locomotive letting off steam. Mr. Bassum himself rounded off the little show. "Ding, dong, ding, dong," he said, hopefully. Bolenciecwcz was staring at the floor now, trying to think, his great brow furrowed, his huge hands rubbing together, his face red.
Rest of the story at the link. Tragic that we're calling it progress to keep some students from any need to get an education.
Just a further spread of the Ghetto Culture. Already in many city school systems there are no standards. Oregon is apparently removing all graduation standards for High School. So, other states will follow suit, and CRT is becoming doctrine at the US Department of Education. There’s nothing “benevolent” about creating a permanent underclass.
Wfjag at October 17, 2021 6:36 AM
If you dumb school down for the dumbest/least-motivated kids, it will be nothing at all. Kids will be non-educated. Already companies are complaining that college graduates cannot write a sentence or do basic math, at a time when work is increasingly complex. This reflects a simple giving up on education combined with woke racism--the woke belief that blacks simply can't do anything, can't be educated, can't get ID to vote, can't get to a polling place AND the belief that white people are simply given high-paying jobs without qualifications. Better to burn the whole country down than to admit that a) inner city schools stink and b) intact families and culture matter for child success.
cc at October 17, 2021 9:34 AM
Apprently nobody has noticed that the NFL is ~70% black, and that teachers are only interested in keeping their jobs.
The first standards lowered were those for teachers. Now our reward for paying no attention, even revering teachers as if they were special, is idiot children, who will be arrested for playing outside - and the FBI will investigate someone protesting to the school board.
It is only necessary that you do what Big Brother says, brother. Unorthodox thoughts of ownlife can only lead to thoughtcrime.
Radwaste at October 17, 2021 10:02 AM
Personally, I’m not seeing where the benevolent part comes in. I just see racism, straight up.
Isab at October 17, 2021 10:32 AM
OK he can't have been so dumb to not know they meant a train after they all made train noises... toddlers know that! Was he shy or embarrassed or something?
NicoleK at October 17, 2021 11:00 AM
I'm pretty certain it's all fiction, a Literature version of a Polish joke.
Fayd at October 17, 2021 11:56 AM
OK he can't have been so dumb to not know they meant a train after they all made train noises... toddlers know that! Was he shy or embarrassed or something?
NicoleK at October 17, 2021 11:00 AM
You assuming the guy actually knew what the word transportation meant.
I have seen a certain type of panic that takes over when people are in a stressful situation. It literally can crowd rational thought out of your head.
Isab at October 17, 2021 12:00 PM
When did it become "standardized tests" when it used to be "tests"? Tests are by nature standardized; they're set up to measure things.
Probably about the time it became "lived experience" rather than "experience."
Kevin at October 17, 2021 1:27 PM
Radwaste "The first standards lowered were those for teachers. "
The standards weren't lowered they were changed, to become a teacher you must be highly indoctrinated and willing to indoctrinate.
Joe J at October 17, 2021 6:35 PM
"The standards weren't lowered they were changed, ..."
Actually, if you find the rare cases where testing teachers was allowed, you will be appalled at how many fail basic tenth-grade tests today.
Radwaste at October 18, 2021 5:12 AM
I was very unpopular in my Ed program because not only did I think the SAT and MCAs were useful, but I thought they were way too easy to be a standard to use for graduating.
That said they're pretty interchangeable so I don't see why kids need to do both.
NicoleK at October 18, 2021 5:23 AM
NicoleK and Isab:
I've seen that sort of panic too. But, like Dave Barry, James Thurber WAS known for...making things up, or at least exaggerating. Even if most of his stories from My Life and Hard Times had at least some truth in them. For example, I heard that in The Dog That Bit People, the part about the little dishes for the mice did in fact happen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThgldKuuGfQ
(Part 1 of the story, as read by Keith Olbermann - the whole story is just under 15 minutes long)
As Farley Mowat once said, grinning:
"I'm a writer. If something didn't happen, it SHOULD have happened."
(That, as it happened, was also in reference to a scene with mice - except in that case, it DIDN'T really happen.)
Lenona at October 18, 2021 9:11 PM
Oh, and in University Days, does anyone really believe Thurber DIDN'T exaggerate with regard to his problems with the microscope?
(Yes, I know he was blind in one eye at the time. But if he really couldn't use a microscope, the professor would have known that and stopped trying to get him to see through it.)
Lenona at October 18, 2021 9:26 PM
Even so, "You've drawn your own eyeball," was still one of the funniest lines in literature.
Conan the Garammarian at October 19, 2021 7:26 PM
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