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http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/berkeley-high-may-cut-out-science-labs/Content?oid=1536705

Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.

Umm... say what now?

"If we ain't gonna teach it, the students can't fail that class!"

Labs and classes are usually considered different things, so I doubt they're just cutting off all science instruction.

Those teachers have tenure, it's the only way to get rid of them.

Wait Berkeley is teaching the killing sciences? man I always thought Northern Californians were kinda wussy. Boy was I wrong...

As taught by Mr. Cheney, head of the killing sciences dep.

First of all, I saw this ad in your link, Wrex:

iFly! They say I am 15 pounds overweight to fly... Bah. They should tell you that when you buy tickets online. No, not a fething tiny little disclaimer at the bottom. A big, EULA type thing that won't get fatties hopes up...

Anywho... Oh yeah, Bezerkly High Sciency thingy... Meh...

East Bay Express wrote:Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.

THis may sound racist, but I am a little biased, being that I live in the East Bay. The following is a rant I wrote in response to the statement above that since white kids were doing good, they are going to kill the program.
It is about HYPOCIRSY, not skin color. I am not a fan of stupidity, and stupidity is color blind.

I have almost been jumped on a bus because I was the only white guy, and apparently I was sitting in some gentleman's seat... It is OK Dakka, he gave me a "Pass", whatever the feth that means. Then there was the time I almost got into a fight because some black guy asked me for a cig while I was arguing with my wife (seriously, yelling and screaming in a parking lot over some stupid gak) and I told him no. He told me I was racist and I told him to feth off... Or when I took the family to Taco Bell and there is a group of 7 black teenagers taking up seven tables in the restaurant. When I asked them to please move so my family can sit down and enjoy a meal at the same table, I was told I was racist again... Seriously, it sickens me when some black chick on the bus calls my daughter a "Honky Baby" and all her friends whoop and cheer, but If I were to call someone a Nier (which is something they proudly call each other, and I have never done that, btw), that is grounds for an ass beating. Then they cry racism when they don't get their way...

The attitude of the minority youth in my area (I use that term loosely because they outnumber me three to one when I walk through Bayfair mall) is that of much misguided teen angst taken out on random white people under the disguise of reverse racism, so I say:

Feth them... Don't let others suffer based simply on color of skin. I feel BHSD is being really racist by doing this, and it pisses me off. WTF happened to no student left behind? This fosters the attitude of alienation and neglect in white kids that IS NOT HEALTHY in this cultural melting pot that is San Fran Bay and reinforces the "We are better" attitude in minorities... Why not encourage more ethnic students to take the science class?

This does not make me a racist to say this. This is me pointing out hypocrisy. But these are drunken ramblings written at 1 in the morning (Eggnog mmmmmm) don't mind me.

alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council

Well it is Berkeley.

Berkeley's solution, the busing of the new millenium.
Seriously, this reminds me of an old science fiction story I read long ago about intellegent people having to wear buzzers to interrupt their train of thought so they wouldn't have an advantage over less intellegent people.

Is that the same story where the ballet dancers had to wear weights to be equal to their less able counterparts?

The same


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It's kind of scary when fiction becomes reality.

yep.

I read another story in the same book where straight people were considered sick and needed to be medicated so they could be properly gay.
Very scary to a he man like meself!.

tblock1984 wrote:First of all, I saw this ad in your link, Wrex:

iFly! They say I am 15 pounds overweight to fly... Bah. They should tell you that when you buy tickets online. No, not a fething tiny little disclaimer at the bottom. A big, EULA type thing that won't get fatties hopes up...

Anywho... Oh yeah, Bezerkly High Sciency thingy... Meh...

East Bay Express wrote:Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.

THis may sound racist, but I am a little biased, being that I live in the East Bay. The following is a rant I wrote in response to the statement above that since white kids were doing good, they are going to kill the program.
It is about HYPOCIRSY, not skin color. I am not a fan of stupidity, and stupidity is color blind.

I have almost been jumped on a bus because I was the only white guy, and apparently I was sitting in some gentleman's seat... It is OK Dakka, he gave me a "Pass", whatever the feth that means. Then there was the time I almost got into a fight because some black guy asked me for a cig while I was arguing with my wife (seriously, yelling and screaming in a parking lot over some stupid gak) and I told him no. He told me I was racist and I told him to feth off... Or when I took the family to Taco Bell and there is a group of 7 black teenagers taking up seven tables in the restaurant. When I asked them to please move so my family can sit down and enjoy a meal at the same table, I was told I was racist again... Seriously, it sickens me when some black chick on the bus calls my daughter a "Honky Baby" and all her friends whoop and cheer, but If I were to call someone a Nier (which is something they proudly call each other, and I have never done that, btw), that is grounds for an ass beating. Then they cry racism when they don't get their way...

The attitude of the minority youth in my area (I use that term loosely because they outnumber me three to one when I walk through Bayfair mall) is that of much misguided teen angst taken out on random white people under the disguise of reverse racism, so I say:

Feth them... Don't let others suffer based simply on color of skin. I feel BHSD is being really racist by doing this, and it pisses me off. WTF happened to no student left behind? This fosters the attitude of alienation and neglect in white kids that IS NOT HEALTHY in this cultural melting pot that is San Fran Bay and reinforces the "We are better" attitude in minorities... Why not encourage more ethnic students to take the science class?

This does not make me a racist to say this. This is me pointing out hypocrisy. But these are drunken ramblings written at 1 in the morning (Eggnog mmmmmm) don't mind me.

I totally agree with you. I can not count the number of times in South Sacramento I threw down because I was called honkey or cracker. Most of the ignorant curs have no idea were the term cracker came from. Unlike you I generally call them the N word before I punch them in the face. Now that my brother lives out side of that area his neighborhood has a strict rule as to who, what and why people come around. Play rap music and be the wrong color and you get shot at. It is that simple. The few police officer who live on the block ensure no prosecutions will be made. It is your community if you take a stand you can change it.

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And after such er commentary, the thread was closed to avoid further loss of collective brain cells.