Ya Soffie, I think this user is either severely brainwashed or suffering 
from a severe infeririry complex, if, that is, he/she is a Black person. If 
he/she is White, the comment is self-explanatory. Claiming that there are 
standards of capacity and intellect between white and black in this day and 
age can only be the bitter fruit of a very sick mind. Thanks for sharing.

Baba


>From: "Ceesay, Soffie" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Sharing A Comment on Diversity by a GreatSchools.Net User
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:42:57 -0400
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>Please read the comment below.  How does this rub you?  If the comment
>upsets you, what would be a positive/beneficial expression of that
>emotion?  There is an academic achievement gap, which may lead to
>opportunity and earning gaps, which will keep the poverty/poor
>performance wheel ever strong, the disparities and disparate treatments
>ever alive, providing succor to commentators such as the one below.  So,
>what can you do, what will you do, what are you doing to support and
>help improve a student's sense of self, a student's academic/athletic
>performance, etc.?
>Black, in this commentary, represents anyone who is not Asian and anyone
>who is not White, referring, therefore, to a very large student
>population in our school system.  , and students of color do lag behind
>and the adage "it takes a village", if we act in concert, will further
>rubbish these ramblings.
>Soffie
>  Comments From GreatSchools.net Users
>06/26/2007:
>"I fail to see how diversity will help my children at school. The goals
>set by NCLB have damaged our schools, are un-attainable and serve only
>to detract from the efficiency of our public schools.Teachers abandon
>the regular curriculum out of a rabid fear that they will be judged
>based on poor student performance on standardized tests(FCAT).The entire
>first semester is wasted trying to prepare for these tests, all in the
>name of closing the achievement gap, which cannot be done.The ugly truth
>is that minority students(particularly blacks)will never perform at the
>same level as whites and asians.They simply lack the capacity, and no
>amount of wishful thinking will change that fact.The worst thing to ever
>happen to our educational system was the desegregation of public
>schools...period.There are two standards of intellect and there should
>be two standards of public education, instead of an over-all
>dumbification designed to level the field, as opposed to raising the bar
>in sear! ch of excellence."
>
>
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