🚀 go-pugleaf

<makemyday@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:3F79721E.FEACA36E@worldnet.att.net...
>
>
> 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...

What did you expect, it was *TOO GOOD* to pass up.
Thanks for the article. Keep 'em coming.

E.B.