Read Between the Lines March 6, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Affirmative Action, Campaign 2008, Missouri.comments closed
Group forms against affirmative action ban
St. Louis –Opponents of a proposal banning most affirmative action programs in Missouri are trying to discourage people from signing an initiative petition to get it on the 2008 ballot.
The Missouri Civil Rights Initiative is collecting signatures to get a measure on the ballot that would “ban state and local government affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment in public contracting, employment or education based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.”
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Opponents have set up a hotline (1-877-644-0466) that people can call if they see someone collecting signatures for the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative. We Can officials then send out a volunteer to the same site to distribute information asking people to “think before they ink” their signature to the petition.
If you read between the lines of the article, the other side is admitting that MCRI will win if it gets on the ballot. Also, notice that the SNL/AP published the phone number of the opponents’ hotline — as if the SNL/AP is engaging in anti-MCRI activism. If they were that helpful in the other direction, the Connerly organization would already have enough signatures.
British Education System Catches Yankeeitis March 6, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Education, England, Britain and the UK, Racial Pandering.comments closed
Now universities get a £1,000 bribe to take D-grade students
Universities are being paid a bonus worth up to £1,000 for every student they accept with lower qualifications.
They are receiving the cash premiums for taking students with Ds and Es at A-level as ministers battle to come within reach of a controversial university expansion target.
Funding chiefs admitted the Government’s flagship target to recruit 50 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds to higher education - originally given a 2010 deadline - is not likely to be met for another decade.
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Universities are being told to spend the bonuses on remedial classes to help students with few or no qualifications cope with degree-level studies.
They are expected to provide pastoral support for students and re-draft their first-year teaching to include courses that will ease them into university life.
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“It’s a bit like trying to find young people to represent us in the 2012 Olympics who are not very good and giving the coaches more money to try to train them up.
“These incentives will encourage universities to take more risk and it will lead to young people being taken on in higher education when they would be better off with practical education.”
In other words, just dumb down the education system and make college degrees less meaningful. In the meantime, the education industry will become a sovereign entity unto itself. This article doesn’t say anything about race, but I bet there are racial implications here.
