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Grouping students by ability is, and will always be, an inherently racist undertaking.
by Kudzu_Bob 14y ago
Grouping students by ability is, and will always be, an inherently racist undertaking.
- dinkumthinkum 14y agoYou've got to be joking. I mean, I'm not at advocate of what the article is proposing but this is crazy. It is always inherently racist?
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoWhenever ability tracking is tried in any multiracial society, it always, and I mean always, results in markedly different outcomes for various racial groups. Is that not, ipso facto, racism?
- GuiA 14y ago> it always, and I mean always It doesn't care what you mean when you don't have the evidence to back it.
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoAll you have to do to shoot me down is cite a single instance to the contrary. Just one.
- TheAceOfHearts 14y agoCan you cite some situations where that's true?
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoAll of them. Even a single instance in which the Achievement Gap had been successfully closed would be regarded as news on a par with the moon landing or controlled nuclear fusion. There would be no end of talk about it.
- amba00 14y agoBurden of proof is on you to prove your ridiculous theory.
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoIt's called the Achievement Gap, not my "ridiculous theory." Google it.
- monkeypizza 14y agoso different outcomes for different racial groups = racism? have you taken a look at the competitors in the 100m sprint in the last 30 years?
- bromang 14y agoBut it is not obviously unfair or wrong. The students are separated according to ability, not the colour of their skin.
- makomk 14y agoYes. The whole "inherent ability" thing is bullshit - even if it does exist, schools don't actually group by ability, they group by (a) how well kids do on tests at a young age and (b) how good the kid's parents are at convincing the schools to put their kids in a higher set, both of which have as much to do with race and socioeconomic class as they do with actual ability.