Reply to Banneker versus School Without Walls

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Banneker versus School Without Walls"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
DP.  The current SAT is so far removed from the test of previous generations that[b] it shouldn't have the same name anymore[/b].  So equating it with eugenics of the 1920s is just bizarre.  [/quote]

Funny you should say that.  Per the College Board, SAT is no longer an acronym for Scholastic Aptitude Test, it's just a word that happens to be all caps.  Why?  Because the "Aptitude" being tested was originally conceived of as genetic and impacted heavily by race.

Yes, the test has changed a lot over the years, but telling non-white parents that they should just trust that everything's good now with a test ORIGINALLY EXPLICITLY DESIGNED TO KEEP THEIR ANCESTORS OUT OF COLLEGE is really asking quite a lot, particularly given that the test continues to show racial and economic bias.

Somehow I doubt that all of the SAT proponents on this thread would embrace a test designed explicitly to show that white people were inferior, despite any tweaks to the test. Particularly if there was ongoing evidence of bias in the test.

[/quote]

(But the median scores of white kids are lower than those of Asian kids on the SAT and other standardized tests. A fact that is conveniently glossed over or framed as  "white/Asian" scores. If white people want to go on about "racial superiority" they are very loose with the facts).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics