🚀 go-pugleaf

Eustace Bagg wrote:
> 
> <makemyday@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:3F793A20.D386A9B0@worldnet.att.net...
> > Libia Gil, candidate for Seattle Schools Superintendent
> doth spake:
> >
> > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/141907_gil30.html
> > ************************ excerpt
> *************************************
> > QUESTION:
> > How would you close the achievement *gap* between racial
> and ethnic
> > groups?
> >
> > ANSWER:
> > "I don't think that I have a silver bullet for addressing
> that issue."
> >
> > During a public forum last night, Gil answered questions
> about her
> > views on such issues as alternative schools and ensuring
> that,
> > in the rush to raise achievement of the lowest-performing
> students,
> > above-average students aren't left behind...
> >
> ************************************************************
> **********
> >
> > NAACLB - an idea with true merit...
> 
> More PC crap from educrats:
> 
> ...Gil made a point of urging reporters to avoid the
> commonly used term "subgroups" when referring to the racial
> categories into which the federal No Child Left Behind law
> divides students for measuring achievement on standardized
> tests.
> 
> The label is "less than complimentary," she said, because
> "sub" is a derogatory prefix (although her suggested
> alternative, "target groups," could pose semantic problems
> of its own). ...
> *****
> However, I kind of like the term 'target groups'.  It
> implies a solution not previously considered.  We can have
> target practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays and over a period
> of months, perhaps a few years,  the 'problem' will be dead
> and buried.

Oh, Eustace, *shame* on you!  Here I was trying to be dignified
and charitable about this whole disgusting situation, and give those
LOOZerz an IQ-160 break on the PC crap, and you had to bring up 
this "target groupz" business...