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One school district in Washington state has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color.
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." In fact, some indicators might have even shown white students lagging behind that catch-all minority group. Perhaps Asians were included with whites in order to avoid such an outcome.........
I'm sure that will bring great comfort to those students whose grandparents were covered under Executive Order 9066 and spent 1942 to 45 in places like Manzanar.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
Opportunities like the opportunity to grow up in a two parent household, have parents read to them when they're little, and be told that their failures are their own fault, not that of some vast, impersonal -ism.
And immigrants (and children of such immigrants) from Africa, and the Caribbean, if they don't outperform whites, definitely outperform American blacks, and they tend to be baffled at the attitudes of American blacks in what they see as a land of amazing opportunity.
Can they move that statue of Lenin from Fremont to Olympia? Preferably to right in front of the State House.
Thurston County is quite possibly as loony as Seattle, if not moreso.
Given the anecdotal stories I've heard about public schools in Washington State, it would not surprise me if they cooked the books to "narrow the gap."
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
