Race-Based Grading

I suppose this is the latest front for the anti-racists (as compared to the not-racists):

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Oak Park and River Forest (Illinois) High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.

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In an effort to equalize test scores among racial groups, OPRF will order its teachers to exclude from their grading assessments variables it says disproportionally hurt the grades of black students. They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan.

Now, misbehavior (within some reasonable limits) should not result in a lowered grade; there are other places on the report card for identifying social adjustment issues. But no penalties for missing class and failing to turn in assignments? Exactly whom do they expect to continue turning in assignments?

The concern is that in general, Blacks get poorer grades in school than whites or Asians. These days that is being ascribed to a prima facie case of racism. Okay so we eliminate these few things that are thought to be bringing down Black grades. But if you start with the assumption that Blacks are less likely to do their assignments and to actually show up for class, aren't you assuming they will learn less? The only way I can see this reducing the racial gap in grades is if it encourages Whites and Asians to stop doing their assignments and appearing at the designated times and locations. The Harrison Bergeron solution, in other words.

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