From the ContraCosta Times, Academic pep talks are color coded.
With schools under increasing pressure to improve test scores, Mount Diablo High School has resorted to a new way to motivate students: by race.
The Concord campus on Friday held separate assemblies for students of different ethnicities to talk about last year's test results and the upcoming slew of state exams this spring.
The thing to note, here, is not that the school decided to motivate their students by separating them into their respective races (sidenote: One has to wonder how mixed race students were separated?). No, the key point of this endeavor is the reason the school decided to separate their students - to improve test scores.
Forget about developing better students. Forget about developing better future citizens. Forget about - teaching - let's be more concerned with the upcoming slew of state exams, instead.
Reason # 1,690,205 to homeschool.
Stumble It!
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