Get your popcorn and peanuts ready, the show is about to start. Can't wait to see yet another "diversity" plan.
It's amazing how many say Whites are living in the past by trying to keep their Southern heritage alive, but others keep going back and fighting for a failed public education system with the same old "make schools more diverse" mantra.
Again, in CMS, where are the White kids? Who are you going to bus?
CMS is 71% "minority". There are approximately 43,000 White kids in CMS, which leaves about 102,000 "minorities".
In baking, many times recipes call for alternate mixing of dry ingredients with the wet and other times the dry into the wet. So what are we mixing in the CMS plan? Whites into the majority/minority? Sure, move White kids from Ballantyne or Providence to schools around the city center and westside. Let's see how that works out for ya.
I anticipate that CMS will attempt something along the lines of what Wake County tried to accomplish but miserably failed. "Diversity" isn't going to be about race this time, it's going to be about socio-economics (i.e. money). The arrogance of CMS thinking that it can avoid similar Wake County outcomes is almost laughable. I'm not one to give up but the 'Diversity Crusade' is something I believe most parents and community members are simply fed-up with.
ReplyDeleteThis being said, I strongly support magnet schools that have, in fact, VOLUNTARILY accomplished creating ideal places of diversity. I attended an arts magnet high school in the early 1980's that successful accomplished diversity goals for the benefit of all. It was a wonderful experience. This experience involved creating an outstanding program FIRST and then placing it in a strategic location. I wrote my masters thesis on the topic of art magnet schools around the country. I take issue with the unbelievable number of magnet schools CMS has slapped together in the last couple of years that have no hope of accomplishing diversity ideals. What a waste of money. In my perfect world, I'd take the limited number of magnet schools that are doing well and make them the very best they can be while eliminating the rest.
Fasten your seat belts, folks. We're in for another wild ride!
Yep. I have no problem with voluntary diversity.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, we're practicing that here in Hong Kong just by showing up.
Believe it or not, Hong Kong is about 93% Chinese. I was expecting more foreigners, but it's simply not the case.
Also, a lot of the other foreigners are also Asian, including all the domestic helpers they import from the Philippines, Indonesia and such places.
The ratio is about 93% Chinese, 2% Filipino, 2% Indonesian and 1% White (typically British), and slightly less than 1% Indian.
So REAL "diversity" is pretty much out of the question here.
Still, few seem to suffer for it.
The economic diversity trend in the US, though, is just a cover for racial diversity since quotas by race have been knocked down so many times.
Even though economic diversity isn't strictly along racial lines, when you combine it with other demographic factors such as location, it works pretty well as a proxy.
Poor and black are more common than poor and white in cities in general.
Poor and white may be more common in rural areas.
Again, people know how to slice and dice these numbers to get what they are REALLY after.
And, of course, FRL numbers have become a proxy for Socio-Economic Status, which is a bit of a joke.
But such is the sorry state of educational "research" nowadays.
Especially in such a politically corrected atmosphere that you simply CANNOT ask direct questions such as "how much money do you make".
Even though there are tons of studies which make all kinds of assumptions about these sorts of things using "proxies".
Seriously. As a society, we are THAT stupid.
As for charter schools, I've always thought of them as more of a place where experimentation and maybe a little "natural selection" in education could take place.
It seems to me that it makes sense to encourage innovation in education just as we try to encourage it in other areas.
It's why we break up monopolies.
And why we don't have "Ma Bell" simply ISSUING everyone a plain black rotary dial telephone anymore.
Singapore, BTW, is much more "diverse" than Hong Kong.
ReplyDeleteBut they are hardly a "melting pot", either.
I remember going there in the 1990's checking out their local university, NUS to see what the local housing options for students were like.
Pretty funny just how downright "racist" and sexist and religionist those folks were.
It seems that EVERYONE wants to be around someone just like themselves based on all the ads I saw for roommates and rental options.
So, the Muslims want to live with Muslims, the Hindus with Hindus, the Chinese with Chinese.
Men with men and women with women (except that the men would probably like to live with women more than the other way around, but
don't really advertise it).
And they are quite blunt and specific about it.
Even down to your dietary habits, like whether you eat meat, or pork or beef or just vegetables.
And no one even blinks an eye. It's just accepted as the way things are.
I'm not sure if they still do this or not, but even the want ads for jobs could get that specific.
And the number of ads I saw looking for "young women, attractive, single" of a particular ethnicity was fairly astounding.
But maybe it isn't that way today. But it certainly was in the not so distant past.
While I've never really been a big fan of "social engineering".
ReplyDeleteBut, if you're going to do it, then as with other forms of engineering, get good numbers and watch those fudge factors.
When "Diversity" works..
ReplyDeleteRe: Substitute teaching at CMS' Northwest School of the Arts the same year I housed a homeless McKinney Vento LGBT president attending the school.
I'll never forget a very gifted black ballet dancer telling another student to "shut up and stop acting ghetto". The scene was magnificent. No white teacher on the face of the planet could have addressed the raunchy black female in question the way another black female student did.
I don't oppose voluntary socio-economic/racial diversity in school settings. What I do oppose is the heavy handed (forced) approach to achieving this goal through highly manipulative practices dictated by bureaucratic butt-heads who haven't a clue.
Alica
I think that's one reason Chinese can get away with not putting up with a lot of crap from their more vocal "minorities".
ReplyDeleteThey don't have that "diversity" cross to bear, so they can tell it like it is.
It's really funny living here on the edge of commie land. We get to read all about what they are doing in a less than admiring light, but I have to admire their total obliviousness to "political correctness" as we understand it in the West.
They can TOTALLY get away with doing things that would have tongues wagging all over the world if the "white man" did it.
And that double standard in world "opinion" just cracks me up.
Just recently in the news here, I've read about interesting "events".
1. The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival held in Yulin, China.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33220235
2. The Beer Drinking Contest held in Xijiang (Muslim territory) at the
beginning of Ramadan.
'Many Uygurs like to drink': Chinese academic defends beer festival in Muslim region
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1825456/many-uygurs-drink-chinese-academic-defends-beer-festival-muslim
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What's even funnier to me than the fact that these things occur (whether "officially" sanctioned or not) is the Chinese reaction
to those who oppose them.
The Chinese reaction to the Muslims disapproval of the beer drinking contest was to call them "extremists and separatists" and they have also said "well, we don't think you should be fasting during Ramadan".
If you can believe Al-Jazeera...
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/china-bans-ramadan-fasting-muslim-region-150618070016245.html
Of course, the Muslim reaction is about what you would expect...
Deadly Knife Attacks... (Yes, you CAN kill without guns. And a lot of people, too).
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-uighurs-launch-deadly-knife-attack-killing-18-police-officers-after-beijing-bans-ramadan-1507659
I don't think these Muslim folks realize the really huge can of whoop-ass they just opened.
They aren't in Kansas anymore...
Oh well, life sure is interesting.
Just read about the Chinese response to the knife attacks. 15 dead Uyghurs.
ReplyDeleteAnd probably more to follow that we'll never hear about.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/24/china-uighurs-blamed-as-18-die-in-xinjiang-attack-says-report
Uh, oh, the Chinese are making "concessions" to their minorities.
ReplyDeleteSlippery slope...
"While Beijing insists there are no flaws in its ethnic policies, the top leadership has made some adjustments. It has agreed to provide free high-school education in southern Xinjiang, which has the highest concentration of Uighurs, and promised employment for at least one member of each household."
That, of course, after delivering a death sentence to 8 Uyghurs for
their last big knife attack...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/08/eight-sentenced-to-death-xinjiang-attacks-china
Unlike the US, though, you can be CERTAIN those folks will die soon.
Propbably already dead unless they intend to have a show trial...
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ReplyDeleteChinese don't need show trials.
ReplyDeleteAs Neil Young once sang:
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.
Although I do remember that they had public executions. I almost went to one when I was working there in the early 2000's. But I had other things to do.
Oh well, another missed opportunity.
On the "diversity" thingy...
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the Hispanic population is growing. So good luck spreading those white kids around.
With all the "attitude" being shown towards whites lately, I only
expect the exodus to continue at a more rapid pace.
Oh well, I guess a mostly black and Hispanic school system will
do well enough as far as most of the students and parents probably care.
At least they'll get a lot of sympathy, if not parental involvement.
Really, I think that's why they want the white students around.
Because they know the parents will show some interest and demand better.
Without free Zumba classes or pizza, either.
Just damned glad we don't have to deal with THAT crap.
Went to a really nice awards presentation at our kids school today.
It's the kind of presentation that you would NEVER see in a typical US school with a choir, piano, small student ensemble playing original compositions and ending with a piano/violin teacher/student duet.
No rap or hip-hop.
Gee, how sad, we're "abandoning" US culture...
My daughter (who is 5 years old) was one of two recipients of a special music award for her grade which has around 150 students.
We knew she was up for an award at the presentation, but we had no idea it would be for music.
We also found that she scored in the top 5% on a standardized math test many of the British schools use, so that's pretty good news as well.
She was particularly good at applying the math to solving new problems, according to her teacher. And she only got one answer wrong on the whole test. Great job for a kid who isn't regularly "drilled" on standardized test taking.
Their school only requires two standardized tests a year and they are mostly for diagnostic purposes, not evaluating students or teachers.
That's mostly because the kids are generally smart and do well in school.
And the teachers are good.
And their parents care.
And the school is well over 80% Asian.
Funny how little stupidity you need in a school when all that's the case.
Also we didn't even "beat her up" about math OR music. She was just interested on her own.
Haha. Hilarious.
ReplyDeleteJust read that Racebook is now considered racist because they don't hire enough black people.
Only seven blacks were hired in their last "diversity" count.
Pretty sad state of affairs in the US (and other parts of the western world) with political correctness...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/25/facebook-diversity-report-black-white-women-employees
Also, my latest tribal name (caonima_heise) has been banned, so I
am now Tsao Nima.
The Nima tribe is very large and we multiply faster than Mexican rabbits...
Well, the next round of US History books should be interesting...
ReplyDelete",...Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our trek, we gotta' travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna' lead. Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from... but most of all we 'members the man that finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they'll be comin' home". - Savannah Nix, Beyond Thunderdome
Thinking about that Dylann fellow and his jacket with the two emblems from Rhodesia and South Africa.
ReplyDeleteFunny, but Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia) was just in the news before this killing and we were laughing about it a bit because they just dissolved their currency. At the time it was something like 32 Quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars to one US dollar. That made my son laugh for about ten minutes as he speculated on how much money it would take to buy a cup of coffee there.
Of course, I doubt that the US will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but I am glad that my kids will have some alternatives down the road when I suspect the US will become second fiddle in the world economy.
We'll see where Asia is going, but I think there will be a serious shift of all kinds of power (from economic to possibly military) as well to this region.
People who are wishing for the demise of "white rule" in the West had better get familiar with what the world will look like under Chinese rule.
I know the folks of Hong Kong are already nostalgic for British rule, even though they often derided them as colonists while they were here.
Really, when you look at the overall picture, many places ended up much better off for most people under British rule than what happened afterwards.
One good sign, though, is that the Chinese and even Asians in general seem more interested in learning about and even preserving the better parts of Western culture than many Westerners are.
It's not just in the arts, but that is a major part of it.
There is even a housing development in China (not too far from where my wife's family has a place in suburban Beijing) which was designed to look like Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And it turned out to be a fairly popular place.
I'm not kidding. The place is real and it looks really strange in China...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jackson-hole-china-vacation-home-community-brings-rugged-west-to-far-east/
Who knows, someday we may be "comin' home" to China...
.."you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone"...
DeleteAll one has to do is look at Iraq and Syria and see what happened to wiping out the past. Hundreds of centuries of antiquities gone by a group of people hell-bent on erasing the past.
What's happening in America today is no different and the ones doing it believe they are the enlightened, "all inclusive", smart ones.
These are many of the same people that have been running our education system for decades.
Gee, we sure do live in "interesting" times...
ReplyDeleteJust saw this video of a beating at an elementary school in Texas.
Of course, the media says it's not "racially" motivated.
Uh-huh. Because we all know those can only go one way.
When I read THAT "disclaimer" in the regular media, I figured it MUST be a black person beating a white person.
And the media is just THAT GOOD at reading intent into a person's actions when it suits their agenda.
It's a black girl yanking a white girl by the hair (who's holding a 3 year old toddler) and dragging her to the ground to pummel her to the delight of a few bystanders.
Of course, the mainstream media is withholding ALL information about this other than sex, age, and location, but you can easily find the video and see what happened on LiveLeak where they researched the facts and even have the "alleged" names of the punks behind it all.
It seriously looks like a wild animal attack. Just like people who get too close to the lion or monkey cage at the Zoo and get their arms ripped off.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb0_1435366184
Well, we all know how it would be portrayed if it was the other way around.
Man, and people wonder why so many people just want to avoid "mixing" with this crowd.
It's really the lower economic classes of people who bear the brunt of this crap because, almost from definition, that's where the worst behavior is often found and nurtured.
According to Great Schools, this school has 2/3 of its kids getting FRL.
It's about half Hispanic, 30% white and 15% black. So it's "diverse", too.
Sounds like the kind of place I want to avoid sending my kids to, though.
On the "bright" side of things, it seems the KKK is holding a rally in SC.
Yeah, that's smart...
I'm sure they'll get lots of sympathy and support.
Even folks like me who grew up around the REAL KKK know that they were a bunch of losers who didn't know how to get things done and thought they were pretty much a joke.
That idiot who killed the four girls at the Birmingham church, for example, was just too stupid to set a timer properly for his explosives. That came out in the book his niece wrote about the events.
Just too dumb to set an alarm clock. Yeah, just the kind of folks I want to associate with.
And in somewhat related news, it looks like Puerto Rico is going bankrupt.
Might make an interesting short case-study on how to not run a place.
Not that anyone would actually learn from it.
That's OK, though, New York and Florida will take them in. And maybe Charlotte, as well.
Interesting "school" angle on Puerto Rico debt default.
ReplyDeleteApparently, it's "all for the children" there, too...
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/what-you-need-to-know-about-puerto-ricos-debt-problems-20150630-gi1j81.html
Why is it happening?
A report issued by the Puerto Rican government said the territory's financial situation is much more dire than people previously realised, with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual spending never accounted for. The circumstances have been exacerbated by an exodus of Puerto Ricans to the mainland United States in recent years amid high unemployment. In one example of Puerto Rico's financial missteps, the report noted that Puerto Rico has continued to increase the number of teachers on its payroll even as the number of students in the school system has dramatically declined.
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Those kids must be getting a heck of a good education with those reduced class sizes.
Uh-huh.
I also saw some references to FREE ZUMBA classes for the masses in PR as well.
Oh, shades of CMS and the entitlement crowd...
Gotta love some of these freebies they've been handing out in PR.
http://blog.panampost.com/frank-worley-lopez/2014/08/07/social-justice-puerto-rico-style-pools-for-the-projects/
Apparently this has been brewing for some time.