🚀 go-pugleaf

EKurtz wrote:
> 
> <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/

Thanks for digging all that out and icing the IQ-75 OOW_Breeding_Cake.
I realized my response was probably giving the DAFNz too much credit
(the idea that *any* white group might not be able to outscore DAFNz),
but I was in a charitable mood and gave 'em a (undeserved) break...