Racial Parity 101 & Lower Standards

Riley makes familiar argument that “Black Students Need Better Schools, Not Lower Standards” yet isn’t it still shocking the black pundit feels compelled to state the obvious again cause progressives never learn the lesson?

As the WSJ’s columnist argued: “The [left’s latest] fixation on racial parity at any cost will doom yet another generation of educational failure.” He begins deriding, for example, the College Board’s meandering over revising the curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African-American studies. “The good news is that … topics such as ‘black queer studies’ and ‘intersectionality and activism’ have been downgraded or expunged [while] the bad news is that offering the course to begin with remains an exercise in racial pandering.”

Not that the College Board should be very concerned about blacks being underrepresented among high-school students who receive college credit for AP courses. The gap needs to be narrowed if not eliminated. Yet, until that fix is found, Riley concludes: “You don’t help underperforming groups by pandering to them by holding them to lower standards. And you don’t help black children by insisting that they must be seated next to white children in order to learn. It’s not only insulting and condescending but contradicted by decades of evidence. Low-income black students need quality schools, not white classmates, and the focus on racial balance at any cost will only ensure that another generation of black youth receives inferior education.”

Davd Soul