I say, let's take this idea one step further: just give the option to opt out of schooling entirely, and give the parents the 12 years x $13,000 that it costs; provided that the child can pass a literacy exam.Riddlewire said:I considered making a new post for this, as it's only slightly related to this thread. But it's really just an observation on my part.
Here is an article about a school district ending their race-mixing bussing laws. The article is from last year. You can tell by the website's motto ("Young People Working For Progressive Change") what kind of sentiments are contained in the article. It's just a bunch of whining about how Wake County will return to the days of slavery now that the forced bussing policy is dead. How terrible it will be for white kids to be allowed to go to school with other white kids in their own neighborhood. Oh, the horror...
The truth is, I only got about halfway through before I decided reading any further would be a waste of two minutes of my life. As I was scrolling down the page, about to close the tab, something caught my eye at the bottom. The author's bio:
"Alison Grady is a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is majoring in Peace, War & Defense and minoring in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and Women's Studies."
Ok, now for the whole point of my post.
Don't send your kids to college. Send them to a trade school. Get them into a trainee program with a solid company. Or just encourage them to take two part-time jobs. Four years after high school, they will be much better off than the garbage that emerges from our "higher education" factories these days. Just consider the protomarx unit mentioned above. Here is a human female who possesses absolutely no value whatsoever. She is completely worthless to all of human society. At best, she will be able to secure a shady taxpayer-funded job at a D.C. Think Tank/Lobbyist firm. At worst, she will be a spell-checker for a small-town newspaper, surviving paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile, the non-college bound kid will have four years of valuable work experience on his resume, as well as some savings if he is careful with expenditures.
I am a TA at a university. My professor and I are currently in an unusual and very awkward situation, and we could use some advice... (self.AskReddit)
The course in question is an introduction to writing for first-year undergraduates at a Canadian university. They submitted their first full-length papers of the term a week ago, and we've been dutifully marking them with the intention of handing them back next week.
We've been extra-rigorous when it comes to checking these papers for plagiarism, both because it's the first real work they've submitted and because of a memo sent out to our department back in late August urging every instructor to take greater measures. We've been cross-checking passages (especially suspicious ones, but also some that have been randomly chosen) using Google all along the line. We have been finding plagiarists.
Specifically, we have found six plagiarists (out of a class of 50).
All of them are black. And there are no other black students in the class.
My prof and I are both pretty sure that other students have probably plagiarized (it happens so, so much), but these are the only ones we can definitively prove. It's not even circumstantial or flimsy proof, either; complete, ****ty, largely unaltered papers taken directly from sites like this. Anyone with a search engine could find them.
It would seem to be an open and shut case, but the fact that every last one of the students is black is making us hesitate. I don't know what it's like in other countries, but in Canada we have a well-established Human Rights Commission that would be all too happy to accommodate some or all of these students bringing both my professor and me up on charges of racial discrimination. It wouldn't even matter if we were to be eventually vindicated; the process is really expensive and time-consuming, and many people who have to deal with it end up settling even though they maintain their innocence. This, anyway, is quite apart from anything the university itself might do to us, which is another story entirely.
It's possible that our worries are unfounded, but we still have them - these things have happened before. How on earth should we proceed? The idealist in me insists that we give these students the failing grades they deserve and maintain some spirit of academic integrity, but neither I nor the prof wish to have our careers ruined over something like this.
The most annoying part: neither of us even wants to teach this class.
What do you think, Reddit?
EDIT: Lots more replies here than I anticipated, so thanks for that! I'm trying to reply to everyone who's given useful advice, but it's pretty late and I have to go to bed soon. Still, I'll try to get back to everyone in the morning, at the very least.
EDIT 2; SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Wow, this went absolutely nuts. There's no way I can respond to everyone, but thank you all for your advice (and your jokes, too).
My prof and I have decided to take this situation directly to the department chair and describe exactly what's going on. As much as we tend to agree that it would be best for us to just pass the papers along without any comment about the strange racial clustering that took place, mizike's comment is an astute one. All the cards have to be on the table if the chair is to take this seriously and provide the right sort of guidance.
We're also going to follow the advice of some other posters here and ask the chair if she thinks we ought to go to the HRC ourselves to get them to provide additional scrutiny. hmasing's comment here gives the best account of what that should probably look like. I'm somewhat nervous about this, but we'll see what the chair says first.
All of this could come to nothing, and I really hope it does. In the best-case scenario, the students will get their zeros (just on the assignments, not in the course in its entirety), learn a valuable lesson about etc., and we can all move on to the next round of papers.
If there's still any interest, I can post a follow-up about all this later in the week. With luck, it will just be to say that everything went better than expected. Here's hoping!
Thanks again, everyone, for all your contributions.
SAN ANTONIO - A local school district is apologizing after an apparent incident of racism at a boys high school basketball game this past weekend.
When the final whistle blew Saturday, Alamo Heights celebrated a convincing victory over San Antonio Edison.
Alamo Heights Head Coach Andrew Brewer said he was proud of his team.
"Tremendously proud,†Brewer said. “Tremendously. It's the best group of kids."
But it was just after the trophy presentation when the coach was not proud of the chant coming from Alamo Heights fans.
"USA, USA, USA," they chanted.
San Antonio Independent School District officials took the chant as a racial insult to a school with all minority players from a school with mostly white ones.
On the KSAT 12 Defenders Facebook page, Santos Villarreal's post reads “this has to stop.â€
SAISD Spokeswoman Leslie Price heard about the incident after it had happened.
"This is very disrespectful to our students,†Price said.
She said the district is glad the coach put a stop to the chant immediately and hopes Alamo Heights addresses it quickly.
"It is surprising and it's disappointing to hear that anyone would be out there making those kind of remarks," Price said.
Edison students who attended Saturday's game were shocked when they heard the chant. Some thought the fans of the victors should have been better behaved.
Ruby Arredondo and Forest Lebaron are seniors at Edison and Julian Castellano is a junior.
"I was very surprised,†Castellano said. “Very appalled."
"They didn't really have any class," Arredondo said.
"It just rubbed us the wrong way," Lebaron said.
Alamo Heights Superintendent Dr. Kevin Brown also apologized for the chant.
"We just hope that people know that that's not who we are and we're not going to let it happen again," Brown said.
Alamo Heights has apologized to SAISD and the students identified will also have to apologize and have been banned from the state title games.
"We think that you have to earn a right to be there and that's not a reflection of our school district," Brown said.
Both districts are now just trying to move past this disturbing incident.
Another SAISD school, Lanier High, faced a similar incident within the last year from students in the Cedar Park school district.
speaking of the nightmare that is the public school system ...
this "racial incident" "mars" a high school basketball game.
this "outrage" is from the same douchebag white multi-cultists who encourage the illegal brownies that populate the southern States to "celebrate their heritage." apparently, White American kids are prevented from doing the same. :frusty:
i wonder what will happen to the White students who refuse to "apologize" for their evil Whiteness ...
The U.S. continued its transformation into a majority-minority nation last year, with Census Bureau data showing non-Hispanic whites making up the lowest percentage of the population in American history.
The estimates released today capture several milestones in the country’s demographic makeup. For the first time in more than a century, deaths outpaced births among white Americans. Almost half, 49.9 percent, of the nation’s children younger than 5 were minorities as of July 1. And the nation’s total minority population grew 21 times faster than whites.
The new census estimates, a snapshot of the U.S. population as of July 2012, comes a year after the Census Bureau reported that whites had fallen to a minority among babies. Fueled by immigration and high rates of birth, particularly among Hispanics, racial and ethnic minorities are now growing more rapidly in numbers than whites.
It’s the latest in a series of reports that have signaled a major, long-term shift in the demographics of the United States, as non-Hispanic white Americans are expected to become a minority group over the next three decades. For years, Americans of Asian, black and Hispanic descent have stood poised to topple the demographic hegemony historically held by whites.
Based on current rates of growth, whites in the under-5 group are expected to tip to a minority this year or next, Thomas Mesenbourg, the Census Bureau's acting director, said.
The government also projects that in five years, minorities will make up more than half of children under 18.