- The gap widened a bit. This is bull. There are so few blacks in San Francisco, that there will always be noticeable, random ripples in the gap. There's been no real change in 60 years.
- And yet, had the random ripple been in the direction they'd like to see it, they'd be jumping for joy and saying, "look! We've squared the circle!!"
- The nonsense about making education a priority is getting tiresome. They've done all they can to make educating the uneducable a priority, and nothing has happened. Why not just accept what everyone knows to be true: just as we can't all be olympic athletes, we can't all be merit scholars. Create race-blind schools with different achievement levels, and let the ditch-diggers go to one school optimized for ditch-digging, and let the Mensa members go to a school optimized for scholarship.
- There are clearly some liberals who at least enter the field with the notion of doing good. But at some point, the cynic in all of us must wonder if they've not just defined the perfect profession: closing the racial education gap. It would be as if Sisyphus were paid by the hour to bring the rock to the top of the hill. It's a bulletproof job.
So much upon which to comment:
- The gap widened a bit. This is bull. There are so few blacks in San Francisco, that there will always be noticeable, random ripples in the gap. There's been no real change in 60 years.
- And yet, had the random ripple been in the direction they'd like to see it, they'd be jumping for joy and saying, "look! We've squared the circle!!"
- The nonsense about making education a priority is getting tiresome. They've done all they can to make educating the uneducable a priority, and nothing has happened. Why not just accept what everyone knows to be true: just as we can't all be olympic athletes, we can't all be merit scholars. Create race-blind schools with different achievement levels, and let the ditch-diggers go to one school optimized for ditch-digging, and let the Mensa members go to a school optimized for scholarship.
- There are clearly some liberals who at least enter the field with the notion of doing good. But at some point, the cynic in all of us must wonder if they've not just defined the perfect profession: closing the racial education gap. It would be as if Sisyphus were paid by the hour to bring the rock to the top of the hill. It's a bulletproof job.