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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo has become, as Doug Gansler so ineloquently put it in the recent debate, a "majority minority county." Whites are a minority now, and minorities have growing power in politics. They've (rightly) made it an issue, IMO, because the schools are insanely segregated, and black and Latino kids are not doing as well statistically. Part of this is SES but part of it is the overall school culture and treatment of minority kids. [b]There are still more suspensions, more discipline, more expulsions of minority children[/b]. They can't do much about the SES disparity and impact, but they can do their part to ensure equitable treatment of all kids on their end.

And after watching them testify ad nauseam this year during many budget sessions, I am convinced they are clueless about the issue. [/quote]

Yeah, this can't possibly be fair.  If these kids were actually causing more problems we would expect the trend to continue once they left school and became adults, and that doesn't happen right?  And I suppose Asian kids aren't considered a minority? They get expelled at a lower rate than whites; it must be that the school system is biased against whites as well.   [/quote]

Black and Hispanic children get punished more, and more severely, than white children, for the same offense. Black and Hispanic adults get punished more, and more severely, than white adults, for the same offense.

Why? Well, [b]racism has something to do with it.[/b][/quote]

Yes. Racism does have something to do with it. Like I posted before, they can't do much about the SES disparity. They can only control what's in their own power. And there is stereotyping and inequitable treatment going on. Just has to stop.[/quote]

I don't have the statistics in front of me but I think even at high SES schools, Black and Hispanic students don't have the same percentage of kids that perform at the advanced levels on standardized testing.   I feel like if you can't figure out what's going on when there is no SES difference, how can you solve the problem when there one?[/quote]

The AA children of families with a parent who has a graduate degree score worse on the SAT than white children of parents with a HS education or less.  AA children from families making more than 200K score the same as white children from families making less than 20K. [/quote]

I think you will find that recent African immigrants score a lot higher on test scores than AA.  That is largely due to culture and the "immigrant" mentality, which is the same as the Asian culture.  Asians as a whole are probably the most recent immigrant group.  The Asian population didn't really start to grow rapidly until the 80's, 90's.  A lot of the African culture is very conservative and value education as well.[/quote]

I think it's mostly due to the fact that African immigrants are the very cream of the crop of the countries they come from; they are the most highly educated immigrant group around.[/quote]

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