The North Thurston Public School district in Washington State has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as ‘persons of color‘ because they inconveniently do not chronically under-perform academically the way Blacks and Hispanics do:
In their latest equity report, administrators at North Thurston Public Schools—which oversees some 16,000 students—lumped Asians in with whites and measured their academic achievements against “students of color,” a category that includes “Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Multi-Racial Students” who have experienced “persistent opportunity gaps.”
Most indicators in the report show that the achievement gap between white/Asian students and “students of color” is fairly narrow and improving over time. It would probably be even narrower if Asian students were categorized as “students of color.”
#1: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#0)
I went to grade school with a Japanese-American kid. His mother was full blooded Japanese. She must have hooked up with some guy that was in Korea for Korean War. No idea what ever became of his father. This was back in the 60s.
That kid was pretty smart. He went to Lane Technical High School.
He married some white chick that lived on south side of Chicago. I just happened to be making flower deliveries at that time and delivered a flower piece to the bride's home. I mentioned that I had gone to grade school with him. I really do not think they cared. :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-21 08:42:50 Reply Private Reply
#2: StraitGate To: Horse (#0)
How hideous! I wonder if the Latin Americanxs invading this country will follow the lead of their craven hosts and mutate their own language?
mis padres --> mis xadres ???
StraitGate posted on 2020-11-21 09:02:43 Reply Private Reply
#3: Esso To: StraitGate, 4um (#2)
Fuck! It's like being in kindergarten 60 years after the fact. Fuck!
(Sorry that I said kindergarten, that's nazi Trumpspeak) Cyka blyatt!
I used to be somewhat language-capable 30 or 40 years ago. Fuck! I don't even understand newspeak.
Dammit! Why does that sound familiar? Am I getting Alzheimer's?
Esso posted on 2020-11-21 09:16:01 Reply Private Reply
#4: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#3)
When we lived in Skokie, Illinois and were in Kindergarten, me and my twin sister took the school bus to school. Mom usually met us when we got off the bus. One day we got off and she wasn't there. My sister said, "Which way do we go?" I knew so I led her home. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-21 09:26:15 Reply Private Reply
#5: Esso To: StraitGate, 4um, Pinguinite (#2)
Embiso el viejo? Hey, I don't talk good in a lot of languages.
I also don't know how to turn the fucking question marks upside down.
I'm gettin' ready to fire Neil's ass. He needs to get off the South Pole and back to work. Or is that the North Pole?
Goddammit! I don't know shit anymore.
Holy shit! Our damned webmeister migrates. Damn, next thing you know, he'll turn up in Central America.
I don't understand anything anymore. Sorry about the nazispeak (meister).
Esso posted on 2020-11-21 09:31:10 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2020-11-21 09:47:11 Reply Private Reply
#7: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#4)
You were lucky, Jim. The best my sister could ever utter was (dj)on. My name's Jim too.
(Edit) I'm still gonna shoot Neil's ass down, maybe in a few years, if ammo comes around.
(Edit 2) Hell, I probably won't live that long. Foiled again. What's that? 3 times tonight/morning?
DRAT! I forgot to go to bed again!
Esso posted on 2020-11-21 09:55:58 Reply Private Reply
#8: Ada To: Horse (#0)
Ada posted on 2020-11-21 10:13:07 Reply Private Reply
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Horse posted on 2020-11-21 13:20:24 Reply Private Reply
#10: StraitGate To: Esso, Pinguinite (#5)
StraitGate posted on 2020-11-22 07:49:17 Reply Private Reply
#11: Ada To: Horse, Cynicom (#9)
Ada posted on 2020-11-22 11:28:33 Reply Private Reply
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Horse posted on 2020-11-22 12:13:12 Reply Private Reply
#13: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#12)
I can remember seeing a picture of Truman holding up a copy of Chicago Tribune. The headline read, DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-22 12:21:18 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#6)
I remember when Hanoi Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam. They put a Pith helmet on her head and then put her on a Quad 51 and took her picture.
I also know of several Vietnam vets who are waiting for her to croak so they can piss on her grave. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-22 12:56:37 Reply Private Reply
#15: Ada To: Horse (#12)
Ada posted on 2020-11-22 14:23:45 Reply Private Reply
#16: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#5)
I recall seeing a picture of some of the Chicago Outfit guys at a picnic grove in Cook County Forest Preserve. When you had the permit you were allowed to have alcohol present. They were drinking Meister Brau beer. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-22 15:38:18 Reply Private Reply
#17: Horse To: Ada (#15)
But I think New Yorkers age faster than regular Americans because your taxes are so much higher.
I once explained to a Scotsman visiting America that there is in economics a Balanced Budget theorem which proves that we would become much richer if we all paid more taxes. He got red. I told him I disagreed with the theorem.
Horse posted on 2020-11-22 16:46:34 Reply Private Reply