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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A recent study in Boston concluded they are.  I have never seen statistics like this.

From the article:    district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black. There's been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address," Cassellius told GBH News. "There's a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education

https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/02/26/citing-racial-inequities-boston-public-schools-suspend-advanced-learning-classes

This is the link:  https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/02/26/citing-racial-inequities-boston-public-schools-suspend-advanced-learning-[/quote]

"Antiracist" is certainly quite a word. It sounds like a good thing to be. It was coined by Ibram X. Kendi, who is quoted in his book "How to be an Antiracist" as saying: "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination." Woke anti-racists also demand that any difference in achievement, performance, or wealth between two groups be explained as a form of racial discrimination. The cherry of the cupcake is that anyone who argues with the antiracists is, by definition, a racist. It's been shocking to me that Liberal white America has fallen for this anti-liberal claptrap so quickly. I suppose it's some combination of well-meaning charity with a heaping amount of guilt-assuagement.

Back to AP classes; the same argument, by the way, can be made for elite college admissions and test-in high schools like TJ (until last year.) The argument goes like this; if a desirable thing does not perfectly represent the demographics of society, it must be racist. The solutions these days seem to be to either abolish the institutions, or remove the barriers to entry (tests, performance.) Or, in a more radical version, actually bar white / asian kids from attending. This has been happening a lot in the education sector. Where will this end up?

Perhaps the most powerful human drive is the parental nurturing drive. Parents want the best education for their children for one simple reason; so that they will have good lives. Parents will eventually wise up to what is happening, and dollars will start to flee organizations who lower standards. What we will be left with will be worse for everyone; for the high achievers who are suddenly being shamed for being smart and driven; for poor kids of all races who now can't even find a good public option; and for the country, which will be even further divided than it is now. By lowering standards and ripping out selective public educational institutions, we'll simply create even more of a "have" (private) and "have not" (public) system. And what about the kids who now enjoy "equal access" to test-free high schools? They will hit a dead-end when they hit the workforce. [b]Companies don't care about AP tests or the name of a high school; they care about talent and skill. Lowering the bar to make something "antiracist" is perhaps the most racist thing that can be done; we'll have another generation of kids who can't find work.[/quote][/b]

You are forgetting that workplaces must employ affirmative action to make sure employees are representative of the population.[/quote]

No they mustn't. High-performing companies are meritocracies. You can bet that Tesla and SpaceX don't use affirmative action approaches when hiring engineers.[/quote]
This is completely false. I know highly-placed hiring executives in top tech companies who are actively recruiting minorities for high level positions (engineers, software developers and other IT positions). [/quote]

So?  My company is actively recruiting minorities for well paid technical positions.  We sponsor career fairs at HBCUs and do other outreach.  That doesn’t mean that we are hiring unqualified people.  [/quote]

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