tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post7751691319050888949..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Race-Based Grading Policy?Always On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-12784128642208470372014-08-16T03:20:50.880-05:002014-08-16T03:20:50.880-05:00I don't doubt your experience, but I find indi...I don't doubt your experience, but I find individual instances of fraud such as the case of your football player far easier to believe than a systematic distortion of results throughout the entire school.<br />Anyway, we agree that the policy is poorly written at least. Wisconsin's only way out of this is to rewrite it in clearer language. I hope other schools do the same thing!jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-71352413852486451592014-08-15T15:23:54.228-05:002014-08-15T15:23:54.228-05:00Jez,
I worked for the public education system and ...Jez,<br />I worked for the public education system and was forced out because I refused to pass the star football player.<br /><br />The vague language in the information posted publicly indeed gives administrators the power to bring about race-based grading. There are also more subtle pressures.<br /><br />Been there, seen that, left that -- in both public and private education.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-8711417619146356092014-08-15T14:42:55.147-05:002014-08-15T14:42:55.147-05:00Noted, but this is just a definition of the term. ...Noted, but this is just a definition of the term. The accusation is that Wisconsin intend to achieve "representation equity" as defined here would by applying different grade curves to each race. I can't see that here. As far as I can tell, this is one of the measures by which they will judge the success of their inclusiveness policies, not an outcome they will engineer by direct manipulation of grades. (you may balk even at this use of "representational equity," and I haven't decided yet whether I'd disagree with you.)<br /><br />Now this is partly my guess-work. I'd avoid reading these awful documents if they were paying me, I'm certainly not going to read them for fun. But just because someone writes down their target weight, it doesn't follow that they intend to recalibrate their scales.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-13382376659051518932014-08-14T15:28:42.907-05:002014-08-14T15:28:42.907-05:00Jez,
It's there. Read the following as an ex...Jez,<br />It's there. Read the following as an example:<br /><br /><i><b>Representational Equity:</b> Proportional participation of historically underrepresented racial-ethnic groups at all levels of an institution, including high status special programs, high-demand majors, and in the distribution of grades. (Bensimon, 2008)</i>.<br /><br />Note the phrase <i>the distribution of grades</i>.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-46827384779902645112014-08-14T10:13:53.184-05:002014-08-14T10:13:53.184-05:00Do your additions confirm the different grading cu...Do your additions confirm the different grading curve accusation?jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-71302717223110146962014-08-14T07:09:33.008-05:002014-08-14T07:09:33.008-05:00Jez,
Yes.
But I added some other material.Jez,<br />Yes.<br /><br />But I added some other material.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-37327873893487318932014-08-13T10:46:42.208-05:002014-08-13T10:46:42.208-05:00Jez,
Was the discussion at this blog or over at FT...Jez,<br />Was the discussion at this blog or over at FT's blog?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-79222297467183859482014-08-13T09:18:24.660-05:002014-08-13T09:18:24.660-05:00We did. I'm a little disappointed to see so ma...We did. I'm a little disappointed to see so many people proceeding as if there were no need to question it.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-1320299297247063872014-08-09T13:17:43.881-05:002014-08-09T13:17:43.881-05:00Sorry for my lack of participation at this thread....<b>Sorry for my lack of participation at this thread. I've been in the throes of preparing for the classes I teach. The 2014-2015 school term begins on September 2, and I was doing start-up lesson plans almost all day long yesterday.</b>Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-50011858462035543012014-08-09T07:39:07.266-05:002014-08-09T07:39:07.266-05:00One of the most tragic results of misguided polici...One of the most tragic results of misguided policies of this sort is that a perfectly splendid example of sterling competence and sincere high-mindedness such as Dr. Ben Carson might get mistaken for an example of "Affirmative Action," and either CELEBRATED for all the wrong reasons by Leftist Bigots eager to toot their own horns, or REVILED and DISMISSED by the ignorant assumptions of Right Wing Bigots disgusted by the tendentious, disingenuous, always destructive machinations of the Left.<br /><br />TRUTH is what we need. TRUTH is what we must long for. And TRUTH is what we must learn to serve. <br /><br />If we don't, we will DIE.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-84275210323154991422014-08-08T23:58:28.928-05:002014-08-08T23:58:28.928-05:00What an insult to 'real' students who appl...What an insult to 'real' students who apply themselves. When this happens in the sciences, how do you know you're getting a low rate doctor or engineering? Especially since they'll gravitate to government jobs. Yeech!Baysiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562129788572031587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-88024231528325857352014-08-08T23:56:24.810-05:002014-08-08T23:56:24.810-05:00JK points out how Sterling WAS punished. Now UCLA...JK points out how Sterling WAS punished. Now UCLA has returned a $3M research grant to him, and the researcher who it was funding it out of luck with his kidney program. Not just punishment to Sterling, but to the thousands who might benefit from the cutting edge work this doctor was investigating. But the sheeple at UCLA just joined the herd. Baa, baa, baa.Baysiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562129788572031587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-36144503534879766262014-08-08T19:54:56.066-05:002014-08-08T19:54:56.066-05:00These policies have evolved to protect the edjucat...These policies have evolved to protect the edjucaters (smile) who cannot write, recognize a ninety degree angle, convert fractions, nor contemplate string theory or thermodynamic laws. They have to teach something, so they teach kumbaya/feel good courses. Naturally, the schools produce a more pleasant level of idiot.<br /><br />TammyTammy Swoffordhttp://tammyswofford.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-27965512032977480472014-08-08T18:24:40.497-05:002014-08-08T18:24:40.497-05:00Because they are not and never will be "gentl...Because they are not and never will be "gentlemen." Except for a very few surviving fossils, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Old School no longer exist. Unfortunately, most people today have no idea what the terms mean.<br /><br />If you'd like to see a good example of what it once meant to be a lady, watch at Hitchcock's Rebecca and observe the behavior of "Bea" the charming-but-doughty country gentlewoman portrayed by Gladys Cooper.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-54544411544333922372014-08-08T17:39:58.062-05:002014-08-08T17:39:58.062-05:00Stering wasn't punished? Get a clue.Stering wasn't punished? Get a clue.Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-13135823540674771912014-08-08T17:38:55.593-05:002014-08-08T17:38:55.593-05:00Oh, that's why we're racist? Nice spin! No...Oh, that's why we're racist? Nice spin! No, it couldn't be the racist actions of Ted Nugent and Rush Limbaugh, could it? Sorry dude, the right has cornered the market on racism.Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-75948667462699959232014-08-08T17:36:54.837-05:002014-08-08T17:36:54.837-05:00Heh, wingnuts brains are 'truncated.'Heh, wingnuts brains are 'truncated.'Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-57503245864753285722014-08-08T17:13:51.256-05:002014-08-08T17:13:51.256-05:00Didn't we have this exact discussion just the ...Didn't we have this exact discussion just the other day? I believe it was you who kindly supplied a link to the primary source.<br /><br />American "Pedaguese" is one of the more woeful abuses and grotesque perversions of our beautiful English language. It's frightening to think that halfwits with academic degrees of which we unfortunately have millions actually get <i>paid</i> for generating garbage of this sort.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56633198123267183432014-08-08T17:06:50.221-05:002014-08-08T17:06:50.221-05:00This deserves a four-letter rating:
ESS-AITCH-EYE...This deserves a four-letter rating:<br /><br /><b>ESS-AITCH-EYE-TEA!</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-21630501122017594442014-08-08T15:36:55.669-05:002014-08-08T15:36:55.669-05:00This probably goes on in more places than we would...This probably goes on in more places than we would like to admit. It just usually does not get posted in the medial<br /><br />Debbie<br />Right Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18274108313586611205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-48269247421738473582014-08-08T13:57:57.007-05:002014-08-08T13:57:57.007-05:00Yes,"go along to get along" people are t...Yes,"go along to get along" people are the least trustworthy (most dangerous) of all. You can never tell what they think or predict what they will do next. I call them [jellyfish]!JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-70837660405969074932014-08-08T12:51:49.258-05:002014-08-08T12:51:49.258-05:00We have too many "go along to get along"...We have too many "go along to get along" people inthis world to start with. So, these morons have designed a system to produce more "go along to get along" people. That' "progressive"?Jim at Asylum Watchhttp://conservativesonfire.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-89386148626961662902014-08-08T12:24:49.402-05:002014-08-08T12:24:49.402-05:00This is merely another example of the corrosive po...This is merely another example of the corrosive policies of the left. Rather than to examine a person based solely upon the content of their character, as Martin Luther King, Jr. would have had it, they instead toss out character as being too constraining and go with race. They have even accused King's niece as being a bigot for speaking out against such insanity. All leftist policy does is to keep the disenfranchised down and under the heel of a leftist jackboot.<br /><br />From the Jacobin revolution that gave them their start to their height of glory with Soviet Union, the left has always targeted the vulnerable and made them more so in order to exploit them. This business with the grades is more of the same. Frankly, you had better check to insure that the University of Wisconsin does not have an engineering and/or medical program. Because if they do and they go that route, people will die as a result. But that wouldn't be the first time that leftist policy cost human lives. <br />William Stouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481469340558843146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-45602190576301461622014-08-08T10:39:38.775-05:002014-08-08T10:39:38.775-05:00I quite agree that the policy as written is undige...I quite agree that the policy as written is undigestible babble, but I remain skeptical that race-based grading is part of it. Hopefully this scandal will motivate the authors of such policy documents to write clearly enough for this type of accusation to be more easily dismissed.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-87322435895028475302014-08-08T10:13:45.734-05:002014-08-08T10:13:45.734-05:00I disagree with just about everything that Obama, ...I disagree with just about everything that Obama, says, does and even thinks, so .I guess that makes me a racist!The Debonair Dudes Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09193177091847804125noreply@blogger.com