Firestorm Erupts Over Virginia's Education Goals (different goals by race and DISABILITY)

[sulphurdunn]

1. I take exception

with a lot the VDOE does, but not this. If anything, I'm shocked they'd do anything this enlightened. The decision is not about racial discrimination. It is not about intelligence. It is certainly not about discriminatory expectations. It merely address the reality of racial and socioeconomic injustice and belies the nonsense that all kids can meet the same set of arbitrary standards for passing these fundamentally flawed and discriminatory standardized tests. For many students with disabilities a 33% pass rate is a challenge they can meet. Most cannot meet the pass rates set by test designers for kids in the 50th percentile of aptitude and above. If anyone said that giving everyone a chance to run a 12 second 100 meter dash was fair or somehow equal is as nuts as people who think all groups of kids should be held to the same standard of achievement or leave schools they were compelled to attend for 13 years without a diploma because the odds were stacked against them passing some stupid goddamn test.