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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.harlan.k12.ky.us/pdf/Gifted&TalentedForms/HopeScaleDirections.pdf
No joke, HOPE is racist! Teachers are being forced to assess students based on their race:

"For example, when rating your students, try to compare those from low-income families to other children from low-income families, children from African-American families to other children from African-American families, (Asian Americans children to other Asian American children, White children to other White children), etc."[/quote]

What exactly does this mean?
Is it like this: school committee puts students in different groups like
Black students: Williams, Johnson, Smith, Jones,...
Indian American student: Deepak, Amir, Krishna.....
East asian orgin: Chen, Zhang,  Park,  Cui, 
Latino group: lopez, Perez, Garcia....
Whit: Smith, Hunter,..... 
Then create and apply different standards for each group?
This sounds a lot of work. Is this the reason that the process takes so long?[/quote]
Yes, thanks for your understanding why it takes so long. 
Specifically, teachers are required to assign a [b]comparative [/b]rating.  Let's say a latino 3rd grade child is observed to perform above grade double digit division. So, for the "7. Exhibits intellectual intensity" item they would be receiving a "Always" rating. But later in the week, another latino kid in that same class was observed to be asking an even higher math level related question, say decimal division. Now the teacher is required to assign Always to this second child, and change first student's rating to Sometimes.

“To what degree does this student exhibit the behavior [b]as compared to[/b] other children of similar age, background, experience, culture, and/or environment?” [/quote]

This is absolutely false. We were taught no such thing. Doesn’t come in to it AT ALL. I have several friends who did central selection committee as well. There is NO demographic data there. NONE.[/quote]

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