Diversity, Equity and Inclusion versus Education

DEI And The Reality Of Failing Democrat-Run Unionized Public Schools

You can't have two opposites be true at the same time.

The problem is that there is a fundamental disconnect between two main planks in the progressive platform for our utopian future. In that platform, DEI is plank A. But plank B is that the black children must be forced to attend failing Democrat-run unionized public schools in big cities.

This disconnect sprang onto the front pages in the past few days when something called Project Baltimore analyzed some data from the Maryland Department of Education, and reported that there were 23 schools in the Baltimore City district where not a single student tested at the “proficient” level on the state math exam.

If you look at all of Baltimore, only about 7 percent of students in the city were proficient at math.

Now multiply that across Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and the rest of the cities that have mostly-failing public-education systems, and explain how we will achieve equity in anything that relies on math? Engineering. Science. Accounting. Even the skilled trades - like running a lathe, or reading a blueprint - needs some math.

But this is the 21st Century and facts don't matter. Only feelings matter.