Ask not for whom The Bell Curve tolls, America; it tolls for thee.
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4875
by James Edwards
This country has gone completely insane. In Houston, Texas, a high school of 2500 students is being shut down because a few blacks can’t learn math. No exaggeration.
“The closure of Sam Houston http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2611 boiled down to math.
“Officials with the Houston Independent School District say they tried to solve the problem — spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix it — but for five straight years, Sam Houston could not get a small group of black students to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1742 the state-mandated math exam.
“Now, after state Education Commissioner Robert Scott forced the predominantly Hispanic school to close Thursday, some are criticizing Texas’ accountability system as too harsh — mandating drastic action based on a few students. Others say the blame lies with HISD for letting the poor performance continue.
“This year, only 29 percent of the black students at Sam Houston passed the math portion of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. Half the Hispanic students passed, which would have been just good enough to qualify for the state’s acceptable rating, if not for the black students’ passing rate.”‘In one sense, closing the whole school is a very heavy-handed response,” said Ed Fuller, an education researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. “But then again, you have this five-year track record of poor math performance.'”
Of the 2500 students at Sam Houston, about 110 are black. There are about 65 white kids, and the rest are Hispanic. Not that the scores of the Hispanic kids are anything to write home about; they’re not.
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