Quote:Coronavirus is making the return to school uncertain for most students across the country, but in one suburban Chicago school district, the superintendent has made it clear that students of color and those considered “marginalized” or “oppressed” will be given priority over everyone else.

The decision was made because the district is not going to require teachers to come back to on-site work, thus, it’s unlikely all students are going to be accommodated.

“We are in a pandemic," Superintendent Devon Horton reportedly said at a roundtable event on Tuesday. “And we also know that everyone is affected by this differently. But there was a pandemic before this. That was inequity and racism, and classism and all of these other things. And so I just want to make sure that as we're making a decision – no decision is going to make everyone happy – we understand that.

“We're trying to support every single child to the best of our ability, and we can't allow a political cash train to take over our decision-making regarding how we return our students to school,” he continued. “We have to make sure that students who've been oppressed, that we don't continue to oppress them and that we give them opportunity.

“I've heard for quite some time that this is a community that's about equity for Black and Brown students, for special education students, for LGBTQ students. We know that this is important work, and we're going to prioritize that.”

According to Deputy Superintendent Latarsha Green, the district will also prioritize students who are struggling academically. She said the prioritized categories include “students receiving free or reduced lunch, Black and Brown students, students who received an I [Incomplete] or less than 50% on their report cards, emerging bilinguals, and students with IEPs."

"There are also other categories in relation to students who are not performing according to reading or math grade-level expectations, and students with no comorbidity factors," she added. [...]

Classes are scheduled to begin with remote learning on Aug. 27, with a potential in-person option beginning Sept. 29. (Fox News)

The Trump administration has been pressuring schools to fully reopen in the fall. The CDC said the "harms attributed to closed schools on the social, emotional, and behavioral health, economic well-being, and academic achievement of children, in both the short- and long-term, are well-known and significant," while at the same time children are "far less likely to suffer" severe symptoms of the virus.

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Do these idiots really believe they are solving anything, rather than imbedding racism in our society?

Makes sense... seeing as poor minorities are less likely to have wifi and more likely to need subsidized meals which were previously being delivered to their homes.

Do they believe this passes constitutional muster?

Its not even close.

How much do they want in lawsuits?

Unequal treatment lawsuit just waiting to be filed.
There are plenty of poor, disadvantaged white children too.

(08-07-2020 03:50 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Unequal treatment lawsuit just waiting to be filed.
There are plenty of poor, disadvantaged white children too.

Basically this would mean Obama's children would get priority over lower middle class white children.

Well, that seems fair.

(08-07-2020 03:30 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Makes sense... seeing as poor minorities are less likely to have wifi and more likely to need subsidized meals which were previously being delivered to their homes.

And why do you think that is so? Hint. Joe Biden knows.

(08-07-2020 06:08 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(08-07-2020 03:30 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Makes sense... seeing as poor minorities are less likely to have wifi and more likely to need subsidized meals which were previously being delivered to their homes.

And why do you think that is so? Hint. Joe Biden knows.

Keep 'em dumb (with terrible schools), keep 'em poor (with a welfare system that penalizes upward movement), keep 'em dependent on handouts (and use every "crisis" to come up with a new one), and you'll keep 'em voting democrat.

Lefties can deny that all they want, but the facts say that's what's going on.

Liberal identity politics is racism defined.

(08-07-2020 03:30 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Makes sense... seeing as poor minorities are less likely to have wifi and more likely to need subsidized meals which were previously being delivered to their homes.

So you are a racist. Got it

Poor kids are just as smart as white kids - Joe Biden

At least you admit it.

Hey, wait a minute. If I was in that school district I'd be mighty Ps'ed about having my vacation cut short and letting the white kids have more of it. I'd be showing my birth certificate to these idiot "administrators".

White privilege, man.

If they want to base it on kids with the biggest needs (IE kids receiving free/reduced lunch) I can understand. But I don’t see how being Black, brown, or lgbtq Equates to being poor.

(08-07-2020 09:42 PM)Chappy Wrote:  If they want to base it on kids with the biggest needs (IE kids receiving free/reduced lunch) I can understand. But I don’t see how being Black, brown, or lgbtq Equates to being poor.

^This I can accept prioritizing kids who are on life's margins but it has to be regardless of color. Those kids need every advantage the public can provide as they are behind the line at the start.

They need to be in school in a classroom or they might not go to school at all and over time become un- or under-educated and on the dole in the prison system for the rest of their lives.

(08-08-2020 09:32 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(08-07-2020 09:42 PM)Chappy Wrote:  If they want to base it on kids with the biggest needs (IE kids receiving free/reduced lunch) I can understand. But I don’t see how being Black, brown, or lgbtq Equates to being poor.

^This I can accept prioritizing kids who are on life's margins but it has to be regardless of color. Those kids need every advantage the public can provide as they are behind the line at the start.

They need to be in school in a classroom or they might not go to school at all and over time become un- or under-educated and on the dole in the prison system for the rest of their lives.

therefore, fk some to achieve sum.....

I can't come up with a dumber premise in scope....it's muh Great Society en macro....

just jfc...

The school district (#65) apparently operates within the City of Evanston and the “village” of Skokie. Combined population ~140,000.

In 2016, Evanston went 87% for Hillary Clinton and 7% for Donald Trump. I don’t have exact #s for Skokie but I have a hunch it was very similar.

(08-07-2020 03:30 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Makes sense... seeing as poor minorities are less likely to have wifi and more likely to need subsidized meals which were previously being delivered to their homes.

By all means, explain to us how a poor white kid is more likely to have access to wifi and meals than a poor black kid. POOR IS POOR.

You literally post the dumbest things.

I'm convinced you know they are stupid and dishonest, and you are fine with that.

Stupid and dishonest is the Democratic way

Lawsuits will lose. Affirmative Action has been ruled okay in the past.

(08-08-2020 11:20 AM)Bronco14 Wrote:  Lawsuits will lose. Affirmative Action has been ruled okay in the past.

which defines how/when/where suits are filed dependent upon who is POTUS...