Quote Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
Seems like the guy was well intentioned, but forgot some important things.
I agree, his line of thinking was well intentioned... however, as soon as he secluded certain students and mentioned the "African American" Scientist, it turned into a racial line of thought. There are some depraved white, yellow, red, etc kids that I'm positive would've loved to be inspired by the rocket scientist, regardless of his color.

Quote Originally Posted by TS12000 View Post
"Equal opportunity" always applied to non-gringos only, my friend
Big +1.... Equal opportunity was implemented because the "white" guys got everything (that they worked for) and apparenelty this was unfair to some others, so equal opportunity and entitlement were born.

Quote Originally Posted by sniper7 View Post
Teaching is supposed to be beyond color and say: "hey that guy is a scientist, not a "black" scientist."
Another big +1. Unfortunately, since the schools are run with government money... and unperforming, dedagraded schools get MORE money (first off, how does that work?! lol) the racial profiling does "come in handy".

i.e. X school with X kids who pass state mandated tests will get x money... however, x school with x kids who do not pass tests will get even more x money to try to "help" them along. Unfortunately, it often falls that some of the lower performing schools tend to be in lower social-economic regions which primarily are those of black or other minority ethinicities. When they get the money however, it rarely actually goes to the right places... Big screen TVs for the rooms, new football equipment, etc. Rarely into teaching, etc.







Personally, I'm tired of it all. I'm to the point where I don't think I care anymore. If I ever get teh priviledge of having my own kids, Lord knows I'll be raising and teaching them as much as possible outside of the school system.