Critical race theory and elections

[AshG]

What happens at a school has more to do with what principals will allow than what those scary teachers unions influence. The procedure to reprimand or terminate a teacher is paint-by-numbers simple. Even tenured teachers can be terminated with the right steps - tenure only provides due process, not immunity.

The principals I've encountered who have teachers causing trouble typically don't deal with it because Central Office will want to know why it took so long to handle and start looking into what else the principal is sitting on.

 

[825VOL]

And in Tennessee, it's a moot point. TEA is fairly toothless now thanks to Haslam's elimination of collective bargaining. Under PECCA, the board can walk away at any time and tell TEA, PET, and the unaffiliated representative to kiss off.

As it should be. No public employees should be able to form a Union. They do not negotiate directly with those that pay their salaries- the tax payers

 

[AM64]

Yea, exactly. I felt like I was living in some alternate universe when conversing with them on this topic.

She gives 8-10 of these tests a year. I could have rewritten each one in less than 30 minutes. So I am asking you to do 4-5 hours of work so I can get the privilege of studying at home with my child.

A kid could never snap a pic of the test either.

 

[NCFisher]

What the *#&$?

Exactly.

 

[NCFisher]

I think most people understand it’s not your rank and file teacher in the classroom that’s the problem, with the exception of a few outliers from time to time that make the news. Overall I feel like I had some really good teachers that taught, did not indoctrinate. Same goes for my kids, for the most part, and they’re not too far removed from high school. It’s the group think at the DoEd and the material being rammed through our local schools that have little to do with education that have people angry. As a result, I think that has given the perceived green light to some left leaning teachers to press their political agenda knowing it’s incredibly difficult to get fired.

OTOH, that is a goodwill assumption; we don't know the % of ideological or radicalized teachers in the classroom. I suspect it's quite large, even if still a minority. Since teachers are the product of college accreditation, we can look there to not only deduce the political affiliation ratio of Democrat-Republican but to rationally speculate on their progeny. I'll follow this post with another that shows the disparity we know to exist.

Your last two sentences are dead-on. Aside from your/your children's experience - which probably attribute entirely to locale - there is an acceleration of grossly age-inappropriate and even subversive curricula being leveraged downward into K-12, and anti-American/Western radicals mean for it to become pervasive standard.

 

[NCFisher]

Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges by Sean Stevens | NAS

D:R Registration Ratio
Of the 12,372 professors sampled, 48.4 percent are registered Democrats and 5.7 percent are registered Republicans, a ratio of 8.5:1. In 2016 Gallup (Jones, 2016) finds that for the general population, 29 percent are Democrats and 26 percent are Republicans, a ratio of 1.1:1. The 8.5:1 ratio is lower than previous findings, such as Langbert, et al. (2016) and Langbert (2018), which found 10:1 to 12:1 because those studies looked at the highest-ranked institutions, in which partisan affiliation is the most skewed. The institutions in this study are the most elite in each state, but they are not in all cases the most elite nationally.

The correlation between the ranks of the 90 nationally ranked institutions in the sample and the natural logs of the D:R ratios is -.4. Since the sample is limited to the four leading institutions in 30 states and the District of Columbia, the relationship is probably weaker than it is in the universe of institutions (see Figure 1):
Logs of Nationally Ranked Institutions’ D:R Registration Ratios by US News Ranks

D:R Registration Ratios by Discipline
In all nine disciplines, the D:R registration ratio favors the Democratic Party (see Figure 2). Broadly, the natural sciences are the least politically homogenous, with the D:R registration ratio ranging from 4.6:1 (chemistry) to 9.4:1 (Biology). In the social sciences, the D:R registration ratio varies to a much greater extent. Economics has the smallest D:R registration ratio at 3:1 among all nine disciplines, while anthropology has the largest at 42.2:1. With the exception of economics, none of the social sciences have a lower D:R registration ratio than any of the natural sciences. Within the humanities, the D:R registration ratio in English (26.8:1) was more than double the D:R registration ratio in philosophy (11.4:1). In fact, the D:R registration ratio in English is almost identical to the D:R registration ratio in sociology (27:1). This is also the case for philosophy and psychology (11.5:1).
Figure 2. D:R registration ratio by discipline

D:R Registration Ratio by Region
The region is also associated with differences in the D:R registration ratio (see Figure 2), which was highest at colleges located in the Northeast (15.4:1). This is consistent with previous work suggesting that political homogeneity among professors is higher in the Northeast (New England, in particular) compared to the rest of the country (Abrams, 2016). The D:R registration ratio in the Northeast is also roughly three times the size of the D:R registration ratio in the Midwest (4.7:1). The South’s D:R ratio may be elevated by remnants of its traditional association with the Democratic Party.
Figure 2. D:R registration ratio by region

D:R Registration Ratio by Gender
The D:R registration ratio among female faculty (16.4:1) is more than twice the D:R registration ratio among male faculty (6.4:1). Roughly two-thirds of the faculty sampled are male (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. D:R Registration Ratio by Gender

D:R Registration Ratio by Professorial Rank
Differences in the D:R registration ratio by professor rank are also evident, and it was highest among assistant professors (10.5:1) compared to associate (8.7:1) and full professors (8.2:1). It is notable, however, that the percentage of assistant professors not registered to vote (41.4 percent) is roughly double the percentage of full professors not registered to vote (20.3 percent). This discrepancy may be capturing an age or generational effect as well as a national origin effect. The Census Bureau (2018) finds that 62.4 percent of Americans aged 25 to 44 and 71.4 percent of Americans aged 45 to 64 are registered. Professorial rank is a decent proxy for age, with assistant professors more likely to be newly hired and thus having relocated more recently for employment. As well, assistant professors are more likely to be from outside the United States.

D:R Donor Ratio
The overall D:R donation ratio was 95:1. Among the 12,372 professors sampled, in raw numbers, there were 10,260 nondonors, 2,081 Democratic donors, 22 Republican donors, and 9 donors to both parties across both election cycles. According to Hughes (2017), 12 percent of Americans make political donations, so the 17 percent of professors in this sample is above the national average, but it is below the means of 22 percent for Democrats and 32 percent for highly educated Americans. This can in part be explained in part by the 21.3 percent of professors not born in the United States. 1 The donations are almost exclusively to Democratic candidates and committees.
As can be seen in Table 1 below, the overall ratio of Democratic to Republican donors is more extreme than the registration ratio. The ratio of dollars contributed to Democratic versus Republican candidates and committees is $21: $1. As is evident in Table 1, the most elite institutions such as Berkeley, Brown, Bowdoin, Cal Tech, and Colby have the most extreme registration and contribution ratios. It is also apparent that donations are skewed in favor of the Democrats.

D:R Donor Ratios by Discipline
Across the disciplines sampled, the D:R donor ratio favors the Democrats (see Figure 4). Differences between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and humanities, however, are not as clear. Economics again has the lowest ratio at 17:1. Sociology (31.4:1) and philosophy (79:1) were the two other disciplines for which the D:R donation ratio did not exceed 100:1. Of note, although the D:R registration ratios for chemistry and mathematics did not exceed 6:1, their D:R donor ratios were 113:1 and 118:1 respectively. The percentage of donors within anthropology, English, and philosophy all exceeded 20 percent of the professors sampled from those disciplines respectively.
Figure 4. D:R Donor Ratio by Discipline.

D:R Donor Ratios by Region
In terms of regional differences (see Figure 5), the Northeast (97.3:1) does not have the highest D:R donor ratio, which it does with the D:R registration ratio; rather, the West does at 135:1. Consistent with our findings above for the D:R registration ratio, the Midwest had the lowest D:R donation ratio--at a mere 62.2:1.
Figure 5. D:R Donor Ratio by Region

D:R Donor Ratios by Gender
The D:R donation ratio for female professors (216.0:1) was considerably higher than the D:R donation ratio among male professors (67.5:1).
Figure 6. D:R Donor Ratio by Gender

D:R Donor Ratios by Professorial Rank
With respect to professorial rank, the D:R donation ratio was highest among associate professors at 162.1 and lowest among full professors at 68.7:1. Once again, there is evidence of less involvement with party politics among assistant professors, relative to their higher-ranked peers: only 10 percent of the assistant professors sampled made a political contribution, compared to 16 percent of associate professors and 21 percent of full professors (cf., Putnam, 2000).

Registration rates give a more modest picture of skewness in partisan affiliation among elite academics than donation rates do. Among registered Democratic professors, the donor D:R ratio is 251:1. Among registered Republican professors, the D:R donation ratio also favors Democrats, although at a more modest 4.6:1 rate. It would appear that the professors registered as Republicans often tend to be loosely tied to the Republican Party, so the skewed registration ratios may understate the skewness in academic political affiliation and culture. Among professors registered to minor parties, the D:R donor ratio is 10:0. Among unaffiliated professors, the D:R donor ratio is 50:1. Among professors not registered, the D:R donor ratio is 105:1. These findings triangulate and confirm the overwhelmingly lopsided partisanship in leading colleges.

Summary and Conclusion
The D:R donation ratio and the D:R registration ratio tell a story that is broadly consistent. The D:R donation ratio favors the Democratic Party in all nine disciplines sampled. Compared to the D:R registration ratio, the skewness in the D:R donation ratio for each discipline is more extreme than for registration. For six of the eight or nine disciplines, the D:R donation ratio exceeds 100:1. The D:R donation ratio among female professors is greater than among their male counterparts, and the ratios are lowest in the Midwest. It is also evident that assistant professors are less engaged in party politics as measured by the smaller percentage who register and who make political contributions.

However, the D:R donation rate is highest in the West, not in the Northeast, while with respect to registration it is highest in the Northeast. The donation ratio is also highest among associate professors while the registration ratio is highest for full professors. Whereas with the D:R registration ratios the natural sciences have the least skewness, this was not the case for the D:R donation ratios; economics has the least.

The findings regarding assistant professors are also noteworthy. The D:R registration ratio is highest among this cohort, yet they are also more likely not to be registered to vote. When one also considers that 90 percent of the assistant professors sampled also did not make a political contribution in the 2016 or 2018 federal election cycle, then one plausible interpretation of our findings is that assistant professors are less likely to be involved in traditional party politics, although there is no evidence that is inconsistent with the broad evidence that conservatives and Republicans are absent from leading colleges around the country.

The trend for the D:R registration ratio among the professoriate to increase will likely continue because the D:R registration ratio is highest among assistant professors in our sample. This presumably would also produce an even greater D:R donation ratio.

 

[AshG]

Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges by Sean Stevens | NAS

D:R Registration Ratio
Of the 12,372 professors sampled, 48.4 percent are registered Democrats and 5.7 percent are registered Republicans, a ratio of 8.5:1. In 2016 Gallup (Jones, 2016) finds that for the general population, 29 percent are Democrats and 26 percent are Republicans, a ratio of 1.1:1. The 8.5:1 ratio is lower than previous findings, such as Langbert, et al. (2016) and Langbert (2018), which found 10:1 to 12:1 because those studies looked at the highest-ranked institutions, in which partisan affiliation is the most skewed. The institutions in this study are the most elite in each state, but they are not in all cases the most elite nationally.

The correlation between the ranks of the 90 nationally ranked institutions in the sample and the natural logs of the D:R ratios is -.4. Since the sample is limited to the four leading institutions in 30 states and the District of Columbia, the relationship is probably weaker than it is in the universe of institutions (see Figure 1):
Logs of Nationally Ranked Institutions’ D:R Registration Ratios by US News Ranks

D:R Registration Ratios by Discipline
In all nine disciplines, the D:R registration ratio favors the Democratic Party (see Figure 2). Broadly, the natural sciences are the least politically homogenous, with the D:R registration ratio ranging from 4.6:1 (chemistry) to 9.4:1 (Biology). In the social sciences, the D:R registration ratio varies to a much greater extent. Economics has the smallest D:R registration ratio at 3:1 among all nine disciplines, while anthropology has the largest at 42.2:1. With the exception of economics, none of the social sciences have a lower D:R registration ratio than any of the natural sciences. Within the humanities, the D:R registration ratio in English (26.8:1) was more than double the D:R registration ratio in philosophy (11.4:1). In fact, the D:R registration ratio in English is almost identical to the D:R registration ratio in sociology (27:1). This is also the case for philosophy and psychology (11.5:1).
Figure 2. D:R registration ratio by discipline

D:R Registration Ratio by Region
The region is also associated with differences in the D:R registration ratio (see Figure 2), which was highest at colleges located in the Northeast (15.4:1). This is consistent with previous work suggesting that political homogeneity among professors is higher in the Northeast (New England, in particular) compared to the rest of the country (Abrams, 2016). The D:R registration ratio in the Northeast is also roughly three times the size of the D:R registration ratio in the Midwest (4.7:1). The South’s D:R ratio may be elevated by remnants of its traditional association with the Democratic Party.
Figure 2. D:R registration ratio by region

D:R Registration Ratio by Gender
The D:R registration ratio among female faculty (16.4:1) is more than twice the D:R registration ratio among male faculty (6.4:1). Roughly two-thirds of the faculty sampled are male (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. D:R Registration Ratio by Gender

D:R Registration Ratio by Professorial Rank
Differences in the D:R registration ratio by professor rank are also evident, and it was highest among assistant professors (10.5:1) compared to associate (8.7:1) and full professors (8.2:1). It is notable, however, that the percentage of assistant professors not registered to vote (41.4 percent) is roughly double the percentage of full professors not registered to vote (20.3 percent). This discrepancy may be capturing an age or generational effect as well as a national origin effect. The Census Bureau (2018) finds that 62.4 percent of Americans aged 25 to 44 and 71.4 percent of Americans aged 45 to 64 are registered. Professorial rank is a decent proxy for age, with assistant professors more likely to be newly hired and thus having relocated more recently for employment. As well, assistant professors are more likely to be from outside the United States.

D:R Donor Ratio
The overall D:R donation ratio was 95:1. Among the 12,372 professors sampled, in raw numbers, there were 10,260 nondonors, 2,081 Democratic donors, 22 Republican donors, and 9 donors to both parties across both election cycles. According to Hughes (2017), 12 percent of Americans make political donations, so the 17 percent of professors in this sample is above the national average, but it is below the means of 22 percent for Democrats and 32 percent for highly educated Americans. This can in part be explained in part by the 21.3 percent of professors not born in the United States. 1 The donations are almost exclusively to Democratic candidates and committees.
As can be seen in Table 1 below, the overall ratio of Democratic to Republican donors is more extreme than the registration ratio. The ratio of dollars contributed to Democratic versus Republican candidates and committees is $21: $1. As is evident in Table 1, the most elite institutions such as Berkeley, Brown, Bowdoin, Cal Tech, and Colby have the most extreme registration and contribution ratios. It is also apparent that donations are skewed in favor of the Democrats.

D:R Donor Ratios by Discipline
Across the disciplines sampled, the D:R donor ratio favors the Democrats (see Figure 4). Differences between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and humanities, however, are not as clear. Economics again has the lowest ratio at 17:1. Sociology (31.4:1) and philosophy (79:1) were the two other disciplines for which the D:R donation ratio did not exceed 100:1. Of note, although the D:R registration ratios for chemistry and mathematics did not exceed 6:1, their D:R donor ratios were 113:1 and 118:1 respectively. The percentage of donors within anthropology, English, and philosophy all exceeded 20 percent of the professors sampled from those disciplines respectively.
Figure 4. D:R Donor Ratio by Discipline.

D:R Donor Ratios by Region
In terms of regional differences (see Figure 5), the Northeast (97.3:1) does not have the highest D:R donor ratio, which it does with the D:R registration ratio; rather, the West does at 135:1. Consistent with our findings above for the D:R registration ratio, the Midwest had the lowest D:R donation ratio--at a mere 62.2:1.
Figure 5. D:R Donor Ratio by Region

D:R Donor Ratios by Gender
The D:R donation ratio for female professors (216.0:1) was considerably higher than the D:R donation ratio among male professors (67.5:1).
Figure 6. D:R Donor Ratio by Gender

D:R Donor Ratios by Professorial Rank
With respect to professorial rank, the D:R donation ratio was highest among associate professors at 162.1 and lowest among full professors at 68.7:1. Once again, there is evidence of less involvement with party politics among assistant professors, relative to their higher-ranked peers: only 10 percent of the assistant professors sampled made a political contribution, compared to 16 percent of associate professors and 21 percent of full professors (cf., Putnam, 2000).

Registration rates give a more modest picture of skewness in partisan affiliation among elite academics than donation rates do. Among registered Democratic professors, the donor D:R ratio is 251:1. Among registered Republican professors, the D:R donation ratio also favors Democrats, although at a more modest 4.6:1 rate. It would appear that the professors registered as Republicans often tend to be loosely tied to the Republican Party, so the skewed registration ratios may understate the skewness in academic political affiliation and culture. Among professors registered to minor parties, the D:R donor ratio is 10:0. Among unaffiliated professors, the D:R donor ratio is 50:1. Among professors not registered, the D:R donor ratio is 105:1. These findings triangulate and confirm the overwhelmingly lopsided partisanship in leading colleges.

Summary and Conclusion
The D:R donation ratio and the D:R registration ratio tell a story that is broadly consistent. The D:R donation ratio favors the Democratic Party in all nine disciplines sampled. Compared to the D:R registration ratio, the skewness in the D:R donation ratio for each discipline is more extreme than for registration. For six of the eight or nine disciplines, the D:R donation ratio exceeds 100:1. The D:R donation ratio among female professors is greater than among their male counterparts, and the ratios are lowest in the Midwest. It is also evident that assistant professors are less engaged in party politics as measured by the smaller percentage who register and who make political contributions.

However, the D:R donation rate is highest in the West, not in the Northeast, while with respect to registration it is highest in the Northeast. The donation ratio is also highest among associate professors while the registration ratio is highest for full professors. Whereas with the D:R registration ratios the natural sciences have the least skewness, this was not the case for the D:R donation ratios; economics has the least.

The findings regarding assistant professors are also noteworthy. The D:R registration ratio is highest among this cohort, yet they are also more likely not to be registered to vote. When one also considers that 90 percent of the assistant professors sampled also did not make a political contribution in the 2016 or 2018 federal election cycle, then one plausible interpretation of our findings is that assistant professors are less likely to be involved in traditional party politics, although there is no evidence that is inconsistent with the broad evidence that conservatives and Republicans are absent from leading colleges around the country.

The trend for the D:R registration ratio among the professoriate to increase will likely continue because the D:R registration ratio is highest among assistant professors in our sample. This presumably would also produce an even greater D:R donation ratio.

I know I'm normally the "follow the data" wonk around here, but just looking at party affiliation means nothing. Unless you're also assuming that R= good and D= evil, in which case there are far greater issues to talk about.

 

[NCFisher]

I know I'm normally the "follow the data" wonk around here, but just looking at party affiliation means nothing. Unless you're also assuming that R= good and D= evil, in which case there are far greater issues to talk about.

Let's not overthink this.

Socialism is an "evil", literally requiring the destruction of Western society, and the U.S. is crown jewel. There is no scenario under which we can be a constitutional republic AND a Marxist society. We cannot be a market economy and a socialist economy, or a society in which an individual right secures rights generally while subject to mob dictate. One cannot be a socialist, truthfully take a public office oath to stand for this republic and simultaneously subscribing to its subversion.

There is no home for socialist/Marxian doctrine on the right. In any polling half to nearly 2/3rds of Democrats view socialism favorably. A 2019 YouGov poll finds that 70% of 'Millennials' would vote for a socialist. This American variant of Marxism didn't spring from whole cloth overnight, academia - ridiculously over-populated by Democrats - has been its spearpoint. Two kinds of people support socialism; the well-meaning ignorant, and the evil people who either lead or are apparatchiks of the movement and understand fully what it is. Both the ignorant enablers and the cognizant are dangerous to this nation.

Until Democrats stop electing open Marxists, stop teaching and preaching Marxist doctrine - whether in blackface such as BLM and 1619 Project, or quasi-anarcho commies like Antifa - cease taking a dump on anything from the Constitution to Christianity, stop demanding we take leave of our biological senses, and demanding we use approved language, then YES! - Democrats will be broad-brushed with only marginal unfairness as "evil". When someone is no longer ignorant of the scenario, they either drop the "what!? - me??" pretense or else they're colluding with our sworn enemy. No more fence-straddling.

 

[StarRaider]

Let's not overthink this.

Socialism is an "evil", literally requiring the destruction of Western society, and the U.S. is crown jewel. There is no scenario under which we can be a constitutional republic AND a Marxist society. We cannot be a market economy and a socialist economy, or a society in which an individual right secures rights generally while subject to mob dictate. One cannot be a socialist, truthfully take a public office oath to stand for this republic and simultaneously subscribing to its subversion.

There is no home for socialist/Marxian doctrine on the right. In any polling half to nearly 2/3rds of Democrats view socialism favorably. A 2019 YouGov poll finds that 70% of 'Millennials' would vote for a socialist. This American variant of Marxism didn't spring from whole cloth overnight, academia - ridiculously over-populated by Democrats - has been its spearpoint. Two kinds of people support socialism; the well-meaning ignorant, and the evil people who either lead or are apparatchiks of the movement and understand fully what it is. Both the ignorant enablers and the cognizant are dangerous to this nation.

Until Democrats stop electing open Marxists, stop teaching and preaching Marxist doctrine - whether in blackface such as BLM and 1619 Project, or quasi-anarcho commies like Antifa - cease taking a dump on anything from the Constitution to Christianity, stop demanding we take leave of our biological senses, and demanding we use approved language, then YES! - Democrats will be broad-brushed with only marginal unfairness as "evil". When someone is no longer ignorant of the scenario, they either drop the "what!? - me??" pretense or else they're colluding with our sworn enemy. No more fence-straddling.

 

[AshG]

Let's not overthink this.

Socialism is an "evil", literally requiring the destruction of Western society, and the U.S. is crown jewel. There is no scenario under which we can be a constitutional republic AND a Marxist society. We cannot be a market economy and a socialist economy, or a society in which an individual right secures rights generally while subject to mob dictate. One cannot be a socialist, truthfully take a public office oath to stand for this republic and simultaneously subscribing to its subversion.

There is no home for socialist/Marxian doctrine on the right. In any polling half to nearly 2/3rds of Democrats view socialism favorably. A 2019 YouGov poll finds that 70% of 'Millennials' would vote for a socialist. This American variant of Marxism didn't spring from whole cloth overnight, academia - ridiculously over-populated by Democrats - has been its spearpoint. Two kinds of people support socialism; the well-meaning ignorant, and the evil people who either lead or are apparatchiks of the movement and understand fully what it is. Both the ignorant enablers and the cognizant are dangerous to this nation.

Until Democrats stop electing open Marxists, stop teaching and preaching Marxist doctrine - whether in blackface such as BLM and 1619 Project, or quasi-anarcho commies like Antifa - cease taking a dump on anything from the Constitution to Christianity, stop demanding we take leave of our biological senses, and demanding we use approved language, then YES! - Democrats will be broad-brushed with only marginal unfairness as "evil". When someone is no longer ignorant of the scenario, they either drop the "what!? - me??" pretense or else they're colluding with our sworn enemy. No more fence-straddling.

Are you talking about actual socialism or the made up definition socialism that isn't actually socialism?

 

[AshG]

I think we've found someone who likes to see themselves type even more than me.

 

[Rickyvol77]

My experience:
Horrible - 3% (and they don't last)
Fair - 20%
Good - 50%
Great - 27%

So more made up BS with no real world application

 

[NCFisher]

Our youngest son is well into his mid 30s now, and we were fortunate to be faced with educational choices a while ago and found some acceptable solutions without the private school route, but it wasn't an easy or pleasant experience until that happened. We were fortunate and challenged because both sons were well above average intelligence. When I was in school, tracking was the thing - segregating students by aptitude - pushing students to their level of ability. The big shock first hit us when our older son was still in elementary school, bored to death, and becoming troublesome in class. The school had done the IQ tests etc, so there should never have been a question about the problem - they decided on supplemental classes for "gifted" students.

Now the big issue was they didn't put those kids in a different English or math or whatever class - they added periods while other kids had recess. Doesn't take a genius to figure out how that would work out. We went in and had a discussion about it - one which we weren't about to win. Things really went off the rails when I said something like "you know, classes used to be segregated by student ability". The answers made it clear that education then and moving forward isn't at all about teaching kids to the best of their ability to learn. It is simply a bureaucratic processing system where it's all about following the process and the results be damned. We are forcing this country to mediocrity, so any future thoughts of American exceptionalism won't be troubling any liberal minds in the future.

I don't disagree with the implication that education is not resulting in young people of conscience and rationale. I'm not entirely ready to chalk up teachers as a disinterested total loss...yet. The DOE, however, should be abolished along with unionization of the educational indoctrination complex (hat-tip to Ike). The answer to elevating student achievement is not lowering the bar but raising the student. Instead of demanding less, raise them by asking for more, not expecting them to fail because of their skin color, which will all but guarantee failure.

"They're just as smart as white kids" except you won't put policy where your mouth is.

A related aside: Education in the 1910s . Could You Pass the 8th Grade Test?
These are examples of questions eighth grade students were asked in 1910 in an Olympia, Washington, school district. Keep in mind, they needed to pass this exam to move on to high school.

Would you be able to pass?

• Name three different ways in which a noun may be used in the nominative case, and three ways in which a noun may be used in the objective case.
• Mark diacritically the vowels in the following: banana, admire, golden, ticket, lunch.
• Spell 30 words including emblematic, declension, pernicious, laudanum and soliloquy.
• What has made the names of each of the following historical? Alexander Hamilton, U.S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cyrus W. Field, Clara Barton.
• How do you distinguish between the terms Puritans, Pilgrims, and Separatists?
• (a) State briefly the causes of the War of 1812. (b) Name two engagements. (c) Two prominent American Commanders.
• Name five important cities and five products of Canada.
• What and where are the following? Liverpool, Panama, Suez, Ural, Liberia, Quebec, Pikes Peak, Yosemite, Danube, San Diego.
• Divide 304,487 by 931.
• Find the square root of 95.6484.
• Find the sum of 5/9, 5/6, 3/4, 11/36.
• What number diminished by 33 1/3 percent of itself equals 38?
• Quote two stanzas of “America.”
• Name five American poets, and give a quotation from each.
  
  
  
  Female students in science class, early 20th century
• Trace a drop of blood from the time it enters the left ventricle, until it returns to its starting point, and name the different valves and principal arteries and veins through which it passes.
• Explain why health depends largely upon habit.
• Locate the thoracic duct.
• Give some good reasons why boys should not smoke cigarettes.
• What do you understand about the germ theory of disease?
• If you succeed in obtaining an eighth-grade diploma, do you expect to attend school next term? Where?

The stereotype is that our ancestors were not as intelligent as we are, but judging from these test questions, the opposite certainly seems true. They were highly educated and at a young age.

Eighth graders are, after all, only 13 and 14 years old.

 

[NCFisher]

Are you talking about actual socialism or the made up definition socialism that isn't actually socialism?

Are you implying actual socialism is compatible with a constitutional republic?
Then why play word games?

 

[NCFisher]

Well, of course, math must be racist. After all, white masters had to keep up with slaves and their output. Slaves just had to work. How would a master know who to beat if he didn't know enough math to track output. Have to say, though, that the racial mastery seems to end when drug production and distribution comes into play ... even seems to bleed over into illegal gun trafficking.

Obviously, you aren't a contest for "Are You Smarter Than an Indoctrinated 6-11 Year Old?"

This excerpt was put online by persons alleging this was in Belvedere Elementary School, VA.

 

[AshG]

Are you implying actual socialism is compatible with a constitutional republic?
Then why play word games?

Socialism socialism isn't compatible with a democratic republic.

Social democracy is. And was a long time cornerstone of the GOP.

 

[NCFisher]

Why did you do that, purposely recast our system as a democratic republic and not a constitutional republic?

 

[Vol423]

Obviously, you aren't a contest for "Are You Smarter Than an Indoctrinated 6-11 Year Old?"

This excerpt was put online by persons alleging this was in Belvedere Elementary School, VA.

What the hell?

 

[allvol123]

Obviously, you aren't a contest for "Are You Smarter Than an Indoctrinated 6-11 Year Old?"

This excerpt was put online by persons alleging this was in Belvedere Elementary School, VA.

There should be some really offended non white folk.

 

[Orangeburst]

Why did you do that, purposely recast our system as a democratic republic and not a constitutional republic?

Complaining about word games and then using word games..Rich

 

[NCFisher]

Complaining about word games and then using word games..Rich

I'll let Ash reply and then point out the diametric opposition of the two terms.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

And for the 0 of you who will find it interesting I was flipped off by one little kindergarten girl and had another try to pull my leg off.

We had a Spanish teacher with one arm. He would pull his prosthesis off and lay it on some random students desk and then smile at them. It became an expectation and greatly reduced the curiosity level. God bless Senior Watson where ever he is.

 

[C-south]

So more made up BS with no real world application

He proves his own 3% number is bs.

 

[NCFisher]

Judge Finds Skirt-Wearing Teen Boy Guilty Of Sexually Assaulting Female Classmate In Loudoun County School Bathroom
The teenage suspect in the Loudoun County Public Schools bathroom rape scandal was found guilty on all charges, ABC 7News reported.

The victim alleged that she was raped by a student wearing a dress in a girls’ bathroom in May at Stone Bridge High School, a member of the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) district. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Department (LCSD) confirmed that a sexual assault did occur on May 28 at the high school, as alleged by the victim, ABC 7News reported.

LCSD arrested a 14-year-old boy in the case, according to a Wednesday statement, ABC 7News reported. The judge ruled that the facts were sufficient to show that the defendant committed a forcible assault, The Stanley Law Group, which represented the victim, told ABC 7News.

Juvenile court prosecutors told Smith that the suspect was under house arrest at his mother’s home, but on Oct. 6, a 15-year-old boy was charged with sexual battery and abduction for forcing a girl into a classroom, where he inappropriately touched her, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. Smith’s attorney said the suspect is the same boy who attacked Smith’s daughter at a different school months earlier.

 

[NCFisher]

There should be some really offended non white folk.

Right?
It's actually rational as hell, though, from their standpoint; objective logic is their kryptonite. Like free speech, it must be destroyed so that society can be redrawn. Establish the things you wish to destroy as characteristics of whiteness, supremacy, and hetero/nuclear family norms, focus your leftist base and open fire. Doesn't matter what banal corruption is spewed, so long as this country is torched.