Social Justice Slow Creep

"College board president behind SAT 'adversity score' was also the mastermind of the controversial K-12 'Common Core' curriculum changes that has children just learning for a test. David Coleman, president of The College Board, which administers the SAT, was the 'architect of Common Core' – controversial K-12 curriculum standards." --Valerie Bauman

Common Core is much more about control of the citizenry that building a more productive public school system. It is the federal takeover of the education system, providing the basis for indoctrination of our youngsters. While robbing children of their free agency, it boxes them in and is prohibitive to critical thinking.

"This is not leveling the playing field. This is a savior complex. This is identity politics," Campus Reform's editor-in-chief said. "The fact that they think they can judge people based on where they come from, the color of their skin, and what they went through, I think is insulting. It's essentially saying, people who come from those backgrounds, people like me, cannot make it and I think we warned America that this was going to happen and no one paid attention."---Lawrence Jones

"The move is an attempt to do away with differences in test scores that result from disparities in wealth and education and preempts a ruling from the Supreme Court on race-based affirmative action," with a described purpose "to get to race without using race.”

So the action is racist!

“If I am going to make room for more of the [poor and minority] students we want to admit and I have a finite number of spaces, then someone has to suffer and that will be privileged kids on the bubble,” John Barnhill, assistant vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University, told The WSJ." He said he expects pushback from parents whose children go to well-to-do high schools as well as guidance counselors there.

I will skip entertaining VP Barnhill; I will be contacting President Thrasher.

As an alumnus of Florida State University, I find it unacceptable that the admissions process is tainted by intellectual elites who seek opportunities to experiment in social engineering and champion political agendas rather than rewarding hard work and accomplishment of students.

Tigers Remain Declawed

Due to the actions of the brass at Missouri, they have this coming in spades.

As the Daily Caller reports, "The image problems stem from an eruption of Black Lives Matter protests rocked the Columbia, Mo. campus in November 2015. The protests by a group calling itself Concerned Student 1950 group centered largely on Jonathan Butler, the son of a millionaire railroad executive. Butler went on a hunger strike and convinced 32 black Mizzou football players to boycott all team activities."

America was not impressed, and most consider Black Lives Matter a borderline terrorist organization.

“Black Lives Matter hates the American system of government, i.e., the Constitution and capitalism,” says Rev. Jesse Lee Patterson, founder and president of the civil-rights organization BOND. Patterson says the movement associates the U.S. with “whiteness,” and, therefore, despises the very government that appears to be endorsing it.

We noted at the time the University of Missouri was in trouble, mainly for how they appeasing Black Lives Matter, a social justice movement. This highly financed group is part of the agenda created to discredit churches, companies, agencies and organizations while creating divisions between classes through race, gender and economic status.

The New York Times notes a Mizzou journalism professor said "The protests could have been turned into an asset — a chance to celebrate diversity. “We still can.”

It seems to me that mindset remains steadfast in appeasement, not connecting with the values of most of America, and certainly from the heartland.

Mizzou should celebrate the chasing of dreams of their students through individualism and teamwork, not orchestrated diversity.