🚀 go-pugleaf

<makemyday@worldnet.att.net> wrote >
> Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> >
> > makemyday@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> > >Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> > >> makemyday@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> > >> >Today in Virgnia - egalitarianz LOOZe:
> > >> >http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=68614&ran=99436
> > >> >************************** exZZZZZZZZZerpt *************************
> > >> >The Gap -- April 8, 2004
> > >> >
> > >> >Fifty years after the Supreme Court declared that children of all
> > >> >races were entitled to an equal education, the outcomes are anything
> > >> >but balanced. In more than 95 percent of public schools in South
> > >> >Hampton Roads and across Virginia, white students outscored black
> > >> >students on basic reading and math tests, according to a Virginian-
> > >> >Pilot analysis of more than 1,200 schools.
> > >>
> > >> Oops.  That means that in 5% of schools, white students did NOT
> > >> outscore black students.  Someone's pet theory about "always" just
bit
> > >> the dust.
> > >
> > >Not so fast there, Bob.  The other 5% of the public schoolz, to
> > >which you refer, are 100% black, as a result of White_Flight.
> > >Thus there are *no* white students to outscore the DAFNz.
> > >
> > >Sorry, back to your egalitarian drawing board....
> >
> > Provide evidence that 5% of the schools in Virginia are 100% black.
> >
> > (I'm not sure that there is a single school in Virginia that is 100%
> > black.  Even in DC, there are schools that are only 1% or 2% white,
> > but none that I know of that are 100% black.  And even your pet
> > example in North Carolina has no schools that are 100% black.  98% I
> > think was the highest when I looked.)
>
> Any white kid in a school 98% black, is the spawn of parent(s) too
> stupid to get away, and is therefore likely to have inherited IQ
> too low to outscore DAFNz. So, Bob, don't have an orgaZZm over it...

Excellent riposte, MMD!

But this may not be the answer to the riddle that got BLC all excited; note
that it says:

"In more than 95 percent of public schools in South Hampton Roads and across
Virginia, white students outscored black students on basic reading and math
tests, according to etc etc"

It does not say blacks outperformed whites in the other 5%. If you follow
the link at the bottom of the page

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=68608&ran=202077

you get "Middle schools' pass rates by race"

The white pass rates are, on average, 38% higher than the black; in King's
Fork Middle School they are 92% higher!
In one case, calculated to warm the egalitarian heart, the pass rates are
identical at 100%. But that is Kemps Landing Magnet School, and what is the
entry criterion for this school?

"Kemps Landing Magnet School opened its doors in September 1995 for
academically gifted sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in Virginia Beach."

http://www.kempslanding.vbcps.k12.va.us/about.html

i.e. they got the same scores by being highly selective in their choice of
student. 5% of the total may be schools like this one. Kemps Landing Magnet
School is only 6% black, compared to a state average of 29%.
http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/va/1744/