Brain Dead Indianapolis school officials ban selected religious websites

[Revoltingest]

OK, I think we were talking past each other. I wasn't even thinking of Indiana as a conservative school system (although I guess it is). I was just taking it on the basis of this one case. I wouldn't consider someone who tries a racist move like that to be on the left, even if they're in a liberal school system. I'm surprised someone would try that in a liberal school system, actually.

Such institutional racism was more common before courts started curtailing affirmative action. Example: In the 1970s, when
I applied for a job as a reactor operator at the Phoenix Memorial Reactor at U fo M, the director told me he was under direct
orders to hire only females & minorities. My father had similar orders for part of the time when he was a manager at Ford.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm gonna have to watch the news. I haven't seen it yet, but I've also been out of state the past couple days.
But I can say Indianapolis doesn't have a very good reputation when it comes to alternative religions. Years ago a judge ordered that a couple (who are both Wiccan) not expose their child to "non-mainstream" religions during the custody battle after they divorced. Of course this was over turned, but it doesn't make the decision any better.

 

[McBell]

What exactly is the sentence fragment supposed to mean?

Thank you for verifying VA's participation.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Thank you for verifying VA's participation.

What's VA?

 

[McBell]

What's VA?

You just cannot help but further prove participation, can you?

Here, let me try your little game:

What's VA?

I don't know.
I am guessing that it means Virginia.
I cannot help but wonder why you would change your location from "VA" to "Looking down on you"...
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[Kilgore Trout]

You just cannot help but further prove participation, can you?

Here, let me try your little game:

I don't know.
I am guessing that it means Virginia.
I cannot help but wonder why you would change your location from "VA" to "Looking down on you"...
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I'm just messing with you homeslice. Chillax.

 

[Smoke]

I wouldn't consider someone who tries a racist move like that to be on the left, even if they're in a liberal school system. I'm surprised someone would try that in a liberal school system, actually.

It comes from being overly eager to right racial wrongs, a fault liberals are often prone to. In this case, the principal (who is black) noted that black students weren't performing as well as white students, and decided to do something about it. It's possible that every single white student in the school was outperforming every single black student, and if that were true I wouldn't have a problem with what he did. But I doubt that was the case. What he should have done was to see beyond the race of his students, and taken steps to bring up the performance of all the lagging students regardless of race.

If there had been a group for all the underperforming students, regardless of race, and if that group had gone on a separate field trip, there wouldn't have been a legal problem and there quite likely wouldn't have been any public outcry. He would also have avoided negative labeling of the black students. The principal would have served the students, the community, and himself much better in that case. As it happened, he labeled all the black students as poor performers, blamed it on the particular problems of being black (implying that black people in general are likely to be poor performers without special help), and ended up with a failed program.

 

[dust1n]

I hope they get the **** sued out of them (for $0.00) like my high school was. ACLU!, where you be?