Apparantly. Alabama has the same problem, but when Fairfax Co, VA alone takes in more revenue than the entire state of Alabama, you just sort of expect a higher result.

Such policies transform the bigotry of low expectations from “soft” to “firm” – from implicit to explicit. And such policies don’t just impact Virginia and Virginia students. Imagine college admissions boards comparing Virginia students’ transcripts against transcripts of students from other states.

Either the Virginia students’ transcripts would (rightly) be viewed as inferior to those of students from other states, or else Virginia students would have an unfair advantage against students from other states, of whom was required much higher performance in order to obtain the same end result.

Very disappointed in the School Board’s decision. Most of these board members are McDonnell appointees, expect better from them! What the hell is going on over there!

Now conscientious parents of struggling minority and challenged kids have to also worry whether their children’s teachers will consider that their kids don’t need any extra support or guidance in the classroom to help raise their grades. Since standards for certain students are set so low, why should any busy educator bother?

The Democrats have always seemed to look down at specific demographic groups as their intellectual ‘younger brothers and sisters’ who require liberal nurturing to maintain every aspect of their their existence. In fact, the left has appeared to take pride in that perspective. Now it’s just got down to being codified. Looks like a lose-lose proposition for everyone but the administrators.

This is such racist insanity! We’ll see if O gives VA a waiver on No Child Left Behind. So if I was paying school taxes, it would make sense that Asians should pay less taxes since apparenty they don’t need as much teaching to achieve the rquired test scores and families with disabled kids should pay more, based on their needs to achieve the lowest score. My suggestion is as ridiculous VA’s proposal!

Remember this:
JOHN STOSSEL: Get Your Affirmative Action Cupcakes Here!
By John Stossel, Published November 10, 2010, FoxNews.com

“This week, I held a bake sale — a racist bake sale. I stood in midtown Manhattan shouting, “Cupcakes for sale.” My price list read:
Asians — $1.50
Whites — $1.00
Blacks/Latinos — 50 cents”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/11/10/john-stossel-affirmative-action-cupcakes-asians-whites-blacks-latinos-bucknell/

The students were outraged!

It becomes a linear algebra problem. Let’s see 1/8 Mexican, 1/8 Portuguese, etc…
Yeah, the dum@$$ on this is stank.

How about the ones in Africa and the Mid-East who refuse to leave the 10th century (BC or AD, doesn’t matter). Plus my hackles go up every time I see the word ‘equal’ or even catch a wiff of egalitarianism; no, all men are NOT equal, and I would loathe a world in which they were. The concept of equality can only apply (morally) to individual political rights; but trying to make all men equal at the point of a gun can only lead us back to the dark ages.

I was a child when my (white) family moved to the deep south from upstate New York in the early 1960s. I watched my father take a number of corageous and principaled stands against the bigotry of the times, at a time and place where an uppity northern Catholic was just as likely as an uppity “negro” to find himself in the crosshairs of the Klan. My mother spent our time in Alabama in a state of near terror because my father insisted on doing the right thing.

It would be decades before I truly understood courage my parents showed, but when Dr. King made his “I have a dream” speach, I was unimpressed; judging a man on the content of his character rather than the color of his skin was something we had been taught from the cradle. My parents might not have put it as elloquently as Dr. King, but they were just as consistent as he was.

I have now been waiting close to 50 years to see the day that black people take thier rightful place as full partners in this society. It hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t expect it to happen in my lifetime. And why? Sure, it takes time for a culture to change, but it’s been decades since this failing can be laid at the feet of white biggotry. The white biggots have been long since marginalized and driven into irrelevance.

We’ve kept our end of the bargain, and if anyone has betrayed Dr. King’s dream, it’s not those of us who dream of a color-blind society.

The ones who have betrayed King’s “dream” are the professional race pimps like Shaprton and Jackson who’ve made lucrative careers of finding racists behind every tree and under every bed. it’s the professionally outraged white politicians who defend soft expectations in cynical (and accurate) expectations of black votes, it’s a black culture that’s gone from noble and proud to barbaric and arrogant and views ignorance and violence as virtues, it’s an entitlement culture that’s enabled and encouraged three generations of illigitimacy and sexual promiscuity. It’s black parents who refuse to accept that the day actually has come when education and hard work really can mean success for thier children, it’s black children who buy into the notion that hard work and doing well in school is “acting white”. It’s idiots in Oakland who applied for a grant to teach black kids in “ebonics”.
Now we can add to this list people who don’t think its’ fair to expect 50% of black students to pass a basic math test.
Well, like the constitution, black equality was a nice dream while it lasted, but it doessn’t seem to be something that the New American Electorate has the capacity to understand.