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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we would all agree that there is an achievement gap for a reason.  It has nothing to do with favoring one race or the other.  Apparently,  the school boards dont pay attention to statistics. [b]Some races just perform better than others.  [/b]The truth is in the statistics.  Dont shoot the messenger.  I think we may be getting off topic but I thought it was necessary to share my thoughts on your comment.  [/quote]

Couldn't those statistics just be showing the effects on bias/discrimination/lack of resources?  Let's say 30% of the hispanic kids in FCPS are recent arrivals or the children of immigrant parents who never had algegra/geometry/trig.... those factors could be the reason hispanic kids as a whole do worse in math.  It's not the fact that they are hispanic and incapable of doing algebra in 8th grade.  It's the fact that they don't have parents at home who can help them learn multiplication tables at 8 yrs of age, so they don't get pulled into adv. math classes in 3rd grade and don't have help along the way to jump up to algebra in 8th --- and their parents don't know what algebra means and why they should want their kid to take it in 8th grade anyway.

So, maybe FCPS isn't "favoring" one group over the other, but that doesn't mean that "some races just perform better."  You are attributing outcomes to race when there are other factors involved.[/quote]

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