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  1. “THBPBPTHPT!” by: Bill Watterson

    the practice finished off my family before i could figure out they were doing that to me… then what? The other part of this that is not gonna get talked about is how X wants an answer to Y, but if that answer comes from Z, they refuse it waiting for M to do it… so all the work of Z goes down the tubes wasted, and the solution they have isnt shared and no one is helped until M does it, and if M never does, then what? too bad its illegal to hire a hit man to get yourself in your sleep…

    “PTHHTHTHTPT” by: Ian McConville & Matt Boyd

  2. Bill de Blasio is a mediocre man who recruits and retains people who are lesser men than he is. Hence this fellow Carranza. Look at Carranza’s background. He had no schooling in any academic subject, just credentials from teacher-training programs. He taught bilingual ed / ESOL ‘ere landing positions in administration. He has no interest in education per se, just making use of schools as toy theatres for his amateur social work projects (which in turn amount to using state power to harass identified social enemies). His appointment is indicative of what de Blasio’s about, and de Blasio occupying the position he does is indicative of the essential unseriousness of New York City’s electorate.

    What Glenn Reynolds has said: our decision making classes are made up of people who are unfit to hold the positions that they do. The public reacts with cud-chewing indifference. Seventy years ago, this was a serious country.

  3. because black and Latino students don’t do nearly as well as white and Asian students on the single-entry test, the test is racist.

    Recall Thomas Sowell’s remark that those holding education degrees often identify with mediocre students because they themselves were mediocre students.

    Carranza’s accession is another reminder that Idiocracy is now.

  4. Public education systems in most medium to large cities are a travesty in that they do not educate, they focus instead on indoctrination and so called social justice. It is pretty well documented that these efforts do not produce better outcomes for the kids that are the favored recipients of these policies.

  5. Recall Thomas Sowell’s remark that those holding education degrees often identify with mediocre students because they themselves were mediocre students.

    An oldie but goodie on the same theme; “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; and those who can’t teach, teach teachers.”

  6. Why do so many think that “graduation rate” is something to celebrate? Isn’t the idea to produce students who hold a certain level of useful and potentially productive knowledge, and if they do the system certifies that. All this numbers game does, when the goal is issuing more diplomas that were issued last year, is degrade the value of the diploma if the expected underlying knowledge is not evident.

    They will lower the standards and teach to the test. Wasn’t it Atlanta that got busted for changing test answers (by staff) to raise the number of passing scores. This kind of game only causes all minority persons to be looked at as AA beneficiaries, even when they are actually qualified. This is where the tyranny of low expectation hurts everyone..

  7. Cultural apportion is a SJW meme. I demand all non Caucasian people surrender their cell phones, automobiles, access to modern medicine, etcetera immediately.

  8. I am waiting for the day, which may come soon, when Google and Microsoft favor blacks in spite of failure. This is the way civilization slides to worse than mediocrity. Corporations aren becoming centers of “Social Justice” and POC CEOs and marketing directors are giving us brilliant campaigns like the Gillette “Toxic Masculinity” razor commercials.

  9. For the consumers of education, you often hear this phrase from parents: “I just want to send my children to good schools.” And by “good schools”, the unspoken meaning is that the diversity quotient is not too high, perhaps where no more than 20% of students are non-white.

    After all this time, it may be easier to just admit that there are racial differences in intelligence and educational aptitude, just as there are in appearance and physical characteristics. And as Steve Sailer has noted, we are starting to run out of white students for black and Hispanic students to be around.

  10. For the consumers of education, you often hear this phrase from parents: “I just want to send my children to good schools.” And by “good schools”, the unspoken meaning is that the diversity quotient is not too high, perhaps where no more than 20% of students are non-white.

    That’s Steve Sailer and his votaries talking, and they’re projecting.

    The problem isn’t minorities per se, it’s that the interaction between school administrators, state regulators, the public interest bar, black politicians, and the parents of bad kids results in lax discipline for blacks and hispanics. Sequester the bad kids and have rigorous tracking, and every student will be enrolled in a satisfactory school. The problem is, these solutions are unacceptable to various stakeholders, the school administrators and the teacher-training faculty who manufacture their professional ideology in particular.

    Liberals ruin everything.

  11. I am waiting for the day, which may come soon, when Google and Microsoft favor blacks in spite of failure.

    As we speak, about 10% of the baccalaureate degrees in computer and information sciences are awarded to blacks. In 1995, the proportion was almost precisely the same. About 8.5% of those working in computer and mathematical occupations are black at this time. Affirmative action is a cancer, but I doubt it’s all that consequential in this segment of the economy.

  12. I finally got around to watching “Doctor Zhivago” last night, all 3 and a half hours. It had been on my list for months. I had seen it as a child and remembered almost nothing.

    To my surprise, when the Bolsheviks really began to enforced their PC groupthink, the word “justice” and the phrase “social justice” came up repeatedly. Keep in mind the writing and dialect is all British, but even so it is striking. The left seems to just recycle their greatest hits. FDR’s “National Recovery Act” becomes Obama’s “American Recovery Act,” and so on.

  13. Carranza and Amante are made from the same cloth, if this is the Darnisa Amante that was mentioned: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/darnisa-amante

    A more impressive formal education than Carranza – Brandeis for undergraduate and a masters then matriculated to complete an Ed.L.D at Harvard GSE. She is the CEO of an organization called Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP), but both Carranza and Amante carry out same indignant, self-righteous agenda. DEEP’s mission:

    “The Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP) is a professional development and strategy organization that is focused on the intentional, developmental, and complex work that is associated with changing mindsets around equity and dismantling systemic oppression and racism.” As you can see from the link that many notable educational organizations have bought the “fight systemic oppression and racism” – they’re eating their own kind.

  14. She’s a ‘consultant’, i.e. grifter.

    Her real enemy isn’t ‘racists’, it’s someone who is willing and able to undertake valid and reliable social research. And the stones to get it published.

  15. “…changing mindsets around equity…” This recent academic/quasi-academic fad of substituting “around” for “about” is fingernails-on-chalkboard-level grating to my ear. Frequently it’s combined with another and somewhat lesser annoyance, the overuse of “have [or having] a conversation [or conversations].” As in “We will be having conversations around equity.”

    I would find it very difficult to continue a conversation with a person who used it, because I would not be able to control my irritation. Petty and hypersensitive, I guess, but I read somewhere recently (here?) that there is actually a name for the condition in which one is unreasonably and disproportionately angered by loud chewing and similar sounds. I’m that way about some of these verbal tics.

    The use of “bodies” for “people” is another one.

  16. As we speak, about 10% of the baccalaureate degrees in computer and information sciences are awarded to blacks. In 1995, the proportion was almost precisely the same. About 8.5% of those working in computer and mathematical occupations are black at this time. Affirmative action is a cancer, but I doubt it’s all that consequential in this segment of the economy.

    Art Deco: I’d be curious to check your sources. Those numbers don’t match my experiences in California or New Mexico.

    Working as a software engineer in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, I saw that blacks were at best 1-2%. As a STEM student at UNM, that’s what I’m seeing in math and computer courses.

    Of course, those are anecdotal numbers. But I have trouble believing the real numbers are 5x or more. Though there are definitely more blacks working tech in state or federal jobs.

    Looking over the web, I can’t find your 10% bachelor degrees and 8.5% employment numbers anywhere.

  17. Diversity (i.e. color judgment, including racism) is another euphemism in the PC catalog, which many people left and right have adopted.

  18. Art Deco: I’d be curious to check your sources.

    My sources are the Digest of Education Statistics, which is published annually, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data published online. Blacks account for 6.6% of the population in the seven counties around San Francisco Bay, 6.8% of the population of the four counties around Los Angeles, and 2% of the population of New Mexico.

  19. ” Though there are definitely more blacks working tech in state or federal jobs.”
    Years ago I worked at the headquarters of a major Army command and noticed that there seemed to be a disproportionate number of people of color. If you look at the statistics you will find that government employment, local, state, federal, accounts for about 1/3 of black employment. The government is WPA for blacks. What I found amusing was that the SES was practically all male and white.

  20. If you look at the statistics you will find that government employment, local, state, federal, accounts for about 1/3 of black employment.

    No, you won’t find that, because it isn’t true. Blacks constitute 12% of the working population. The industries which are in the public sector by definition or have extensive intersection with the public sector have workforces in which blacks have the following shares:

    Public administration: 16.9%
    Social assistance: 19.5%
    Educational services: 11.5%
    Utilities: 9%
    Transportation: 21%

    Collectively, these sectors encompass 27% of the black workforce. However, there are scads of private sector employees in these sectors and blacks employed in public administration account for just 6.6% of the black workforce.

    The only discrete occupations where black workers make up more than a quarter of the total are slaughterhouse employees (25.5%), bus and urban transit employees (35.6%), taxi and limousine service employees (30.2%), postal workers (28.6%), car rental employees (25.8%), security guards (27%), home health aides (26.1%), nursing home employees (28.6%), residential care employees (ex nursing homes) (26.3%), and barbers (30.8%). (About 2% of all black employees work for the postal service or local transit services).

  21. Addendum, the workforce of the Community and Social Service sector is about 20.4% black and accounts for about 3% of the black workforce.

  22. The purpose of public schools is not to educate. The purpose of public schools is to keep kids off the street and employ Democrat voters.

  23. Mac,

    I’d love to know the name of that ‘condition’. That must be what my husband and son have and why I am forbidden to eat carrots around them!

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