Here lately, it seems like more and more things are leaving me speechless.


A Virginia high sent a disturbing letter to parents and students announcing they would be selecting students for Advanced Placement and honors classes at least partly based on skin color, a concerned parent told Fox News.

Martin Luther King, Jr. must be turning over in his grave.

A parent forwarded me a copy of the letter sent from John Handley High School in Winchester.

“Through our collective work, advanced classes such as AP and Honors will have proportional representation,” read the letter. “Proportional representation is 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.”

The letter went on to explain that public schools across the country “continue to see outcomes that are disproportionate by race and social class.”

“American demographic trends indicate that America will be a majority minority nation in the next 25 years,” the letter read. “Therefore, the new work of American public schools is to develop systems to address disparate outcomes.”

Interesting -- I thought the work of American public schools was to teach kids how to read, write, multiply and divide.

A school district spokesperson reached out to me and strongly denied that they have any policies dictating racial quotas for advanced courses.

“Our school division does not have, nor has it ever had, any policy that utilizes race for enrollment into honors or AP courses. All students, regardless of race, must meet academic criteria to enroll in advanced level coursework. Over the past years, the School Board has continued its focus on providing advanced level coursework as well as increasing advanced course offerings across a variety of disciplines. The School Board has not contemplated, nor adopted, any policy or practice that utilizes race in determining which students can or cannot take such courses, or any other courses for that matter,” the spokesperson said.

However, the letter clearly states that is their goal.

“I disagree that those statements mean that students will be placed in classes based on race,” said schoolboard chairman Erica Truban.

Her comment strains credulity.

Eric Sitton – father of a rising sophomore honors student at the high school was one of the parents who received the letter.

“I was taken aback. I couldn’t believe someone would put words like that in print to send around to the homes of students,” he told me.

He said he was especially distressed when his teenage son read the rules governing honors classes.

“I felt powerless to help my child,” he said. “Seeing the look on his face when he realized that he was being judged by the color of his skin was agonizing.”

So how does a public school district explain judging children based on their pigmentation?

“My son asked me, ‘Am I not going to be able to be in an AP class because I’m white?’ And I didn’t know what to tell him,” Mr. Sitton said.

Last year, he said one of his son’s teachers told students she could not believe anyone would vote for Donald Trump. She attempted to influence students with her political ideology.

“It is honestly like trying to run a marathon in mud – trying to deal with the school system,” Mr. Sitton told me.

Hopefully, Mr. Sitton’s son will be among the 40 percent of white people permitted to enroll in honors classes.

“I told my son to just do the best you can do, show your aptitude and hopefully you will get the classes you want,” he said.


http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...ot-intelligence.html

Why stop there? There are proportionally more black and Hispanics in jail. Let's start randomly jailing whites and Asians to even everything out regardless of if they've ever committed a crime.

You just can't make this shit up. I'm embarrassed to be a Virginian today.

I think it is the right thing to do. After all, per my College Faculty Training, on the whole, white males are selfish, prejudiced, oppressive. And as the Humanities/Social Studies courses teach, it was such described white males who were the Founders, and America's history is one of racism and oppression.

Now I need a much larger barf bucket. [/sarc off]

Just wait til the outcome doesn't fit their fantasy world plan. The grade distribution will start. Regardless their engineered outcome bullshit, smart kids will succeed and not so smart kids largely will not. Reality is a bitch.

There is a solution to this idiocy.

Outrageous.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Why stop there? There are proportionally more black and Hispanics in jail. Let's start randomly jailing whites and Asians to even everything out regardless of if they've ever committed a crime.

Yeah and IIRC it's over 95% MALE. We need a program to get more of those privileged broads behind bars.

What's sad is that these people also reproduce.

I'll just leave this here:

MIKE DUFRENE, principal
John Handley High School
425 Handley Blvd., Winchester, VA 22601

HOURS
M-F: 7:30 - 4 pm

TELEPHONE
V: 540.662.3471 F: 540.722.6722

CONTACT PRINCIPAL MIKE DUFRENE
​dufrene@wps.k12.va.us

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
There is a solution to this idiocy.

Please elaborate?

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
There is a solution to this idiocy.

Please elaborate?

He's always been quite an ardent supporter of vouchers. Close public school systems and fire all employees. Let private schools take it all on.

Crap like this will make it happen eventually.

I was wondering whether it was going to be "private school" or "get a rope".

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
"40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.”

Now, I was never in an AP or Honors class, but I know that 97% does not total a full classroom. What about that remaining 3%? Who gets that spot? Should the principal learn math before filling these classes?

This is one of many reasons my daughter starts in private school (Kindergarten) next week. She will be challenged with more rigorous work, and there will be no teaching to the lowest common denominator (which would turn her into a major disciplinary problem I fear).

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Originally posted by phydough:

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
"40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.”

Now, I was never in an AP or Honors class, but I know that 97% does not total a full classroom. What about that remaining 3%? Who gets that spot? Should the principal learn math before filling these classes?

Well they completely excluded the Asians too. Which probably make up a good percentage of AP classes. He must really hate Asian people.

How about my Pacific Islanders and Native Americans? They don't get a chance to try for AP either?

Just wait until some of those non-white genius students are struggling to get passing grades because they were chosen for reasons other that their GPA; sliding scale grading, extra credit that is not offered across the board, outright grade altering, etc. Any white parents that express even a slight hint of outrage over this will be branded as racist.

The profoundly crappy English grammar in the Board's letter is even more terrifying than their conclusion re: the "new work" of public schools.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Why stop there? There are proportionally more black and Hispanics in jail. Let's start randomly jailing whites and Asians to even everything out regardless of if they've ever committed a crime.

You just can't make this shit up. I'm embarrassed to be a Virginian today.

Kind of says it for me, too.

And people who put those kinds of QUOTAS in place are complete and total safe space idiots.

Damn, damn, damn!

Where the hell is that comet?

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
There is a solution to this idiocy.

Please elaborate?

He's always been quite an ardent supporter of vouchers. Close public school systems and fire all employees. Let private schools take it all on.

Crap like this will make it happen eventually.

Succinct and eloquent!

It solves just about every problem but one...... Friday night football. I'm looking for ideas there.

The best football schools in Florida are private schools, Jallen.