Change My View On Race in Education

[Cappytaino]

idk what your experience has been but it sounds to me like that's just an interesting connection to make in a paper

if it's not relevant obv that's kinda weird but english teachers love seeing allusions to things like that

It may be unique, but when other students tried using similar stories, they didn't get nearly as high marks as I did, and the only difference between them and myself is race. I'd love to believe it's purely because it's something not a lot of people allude to, but I think there's something slightly more nefarious and toxic going on.

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[McZealot]

at my school they boost all scores so that the highest scored person gets a 100. meaning if everyone gets 60 and one person an 80 suddenly everyone has 80 and one person 100.

since they have classes for the less-skilled this can really help those students who might all score like 50-75 on a hard test.

[Rigel]

The majority of the nig-nogs in my school just drop out at 16.

[Cappytaino]

at my school they boost all scores so that the highest scored person gets a 100. meaning if everyone gets 60 and one person an 80 suddenly everyone has 80 and one person 100.

since they have classes for the less-skilled this can really help those students who might all score like 50-75 on a hard test.

But, to play devil's advocate, is it really worth throwing away integrity to make ourselves feel good about "helping" people?

The majority of the nig-nogs in my school just drop out at 16.

my school literally gives people a free ride to at least passing. It's ridiculous

[Otis Da HousKat]

I'm confused, you said your friend is a better writer and also referenced a Native-American myth but got a worse grade. Just to clarify your friend who did this is plain old white and not of Lakota ancestry herself right?

[Cappytaino]

I'm confused, you said your friend is a better writer and also referenced a Native-American myth but got a worse grade. Just to clarify your friend who did this is plain old white and not of Lakota ancestry herself right?

French Canadian, so she's plain old white.

[Kochieboy]

In college:

A: Literally NHS material
B: Great student
C: You passed
D: You tried
F: Idiot

[Otis Da HousKat]

French Canadian, so she's plain old white.

Thanks for clearing that up. Wasn't sure since you can be native and French Canadian too.

Grading writing assignments can be highly subjective. Besides hitting the main points and requirements of the assignment sometimes the way you word something or your chosen story can just strike a better chord with the reader. It's definitely interesting and worth investigating though. You'd need to try and get more people involved in this, "secret study," and look for consistent behavior across a wide variety of assignments.

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The majority of the nig-nogs in my school just drop out at 16.

haha wouldn't be a blf topic without hating on them stupid blacks!

[Cappytaino]

In 2009, Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and researcher Alexandria Walton Radford, in their book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, examined data on students applying to college in 1997 and calculated that Asian-Americans needed nearly perfect SAT scores of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410 and African Americans who got 1100.

What the forget is this stuff

[Damp]

C for me is the loving end

[carolcat]

Mine isn't at all, they just want to look good to the state

mine is that way too. if you post anything that seems embarrassing to the school on facebook/twiiter then you get suspended, and all the school does is teach the test.

[Cappytaino]

mine is that way too. if you post anything that seems embarrassing to the school on facebook/twiiter then you get suspended, and all the school does is teach the test.

Mine would probably suspend me if they found this post. They teach to the test as well.

[carolcat]

Mine would probably suspend me if they found this post. They teach to the test as well.

did your school do the PARCC this year?

[Cappytaino]

did your school do the PARCC this year?

We did a test called SBAC. I think it serves the same general purpose, but it's Connecticut-specific.