A Progressive's Progress

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Little Red Schoolhouse; that was then, this is now

Little Red Schoolhouse; that was then, this is now

NYC school chancellor is determined to wipe out Whitey

Whiteness has become “toxic” under schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s regime, insiders charge.

At least four top Department of Education executives who have been demoted or stripped of duties under Carranza’s sweeping reorganization are poised to sue the city, claiming he has created “an environment which is hostile toward whites,” a source told The Post.

The women — all white, veteran administrators — contend they were pushed aside for less qualified persons of color.

“These decisions are being made because DOE leadership believes that skin color plays a role in how to get equity — that white people can’t convey the message,” said a source familiar with the complaints.

“There’s a toxic whiteness concept going on.”

“Racial tensions appear to be one manifestation of these internal battles.”

Meanwhile, the DOE has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants to coach supervisors on how to “disrupt the power structure and dismantle institutional racism,” a supervisor said.

“There’s been a lot of discussion of white supremacy and how it manifests in the workplace, conversations about race, and looking at how the white culture behaves,” said a white executive who received the training.

“White supremacy is characterized by perfectionism, a belief in meritocracy, and the Protestant work ethic,” the exec said, adding that whites who object when accused of deep-rooted bias are called “fragile” and “defensive.”

So New York City’s plan to rebuild its school system is to encourage a “good enough for government work” ethic, hire and promote workers based on racial and sexual grounds, rather than merit, and denounce hard work, discipline and frugality. In a sane world, this would be-considered a recipe for disaster; in today’s environment, it’s the norm.


"This is progress for America"

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So said Nancy Pelosi Friday as the House of Representatives passed a bill that will amend the Civil Rigts Act of 1964 to include transgenders in its protections.

Who among us would object to men and boys sharing girls’ bathrooms and showers, but the House’s specific refusal to exclude Title IX sports activities from the new law may give some pause. In fact, “fear mongers” claimed, unsuccessfully, that the measure will destroy women’s sports entire. While that may be a tad draconian, certainly the day of genuine women setting world records will be ending.

Just out of curiosity, I looked up and compared the world records for the 100 and 200-meter dash, men and women, professionals and high schoolers alike. Those who claim that there is no physical difference between the two sexes are, putting it simply, wrong.

100 meter dash:

Men: Usan Bolt 9.69

Boy: Bolling: 9.98

Women: Florence Griffith Joynes 10.49

Girls: 10.98

200 Meter

Men: Usan Bolt 19.30

Boy: 20.58

Women: Florence Griffith Joynes 21.34

Girls: 22.11

Here in Connecticut we already have boys competing as girls, and to an unwoke observer, the results seem unfair.

"Selina Soule explains that Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood have an unfair advantage—She's speaking for girls who are 'afraid to speak up because of retaliation from the media, school officials, and coaches.' "

This year, trans students, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, took 1st and 2nd place in the 2019 Connecticut State Championships in Girls Track. When Miller and Yearwood took 1st and 2nd in 2018, parents and students started talking about the unfair advantages they have, and other significant issues, like girls losing scholarships. The media painted the girls as bigots and sore losers.

Selina Soule, a 16 year-old student, spoke out in a YouTube video, posted April 12. She says, “We all watched in surprise, as our chances to win vanished.”

DyeStat records show that Miller would rank 120th in the 55-meter dash, in the Connecticut State Boys Track division (the division Miller ran with just prior to joining the Girls Track division in 2018). And Yearwood would rank 195th.

In 1988, Flo Jo set the record of 10.49 seconds in the Women’s 100m race. A developmental biologist, who posts stats on Twitter, under FondofBeetles, points out that in 30 years, no woman has beat Flo Jo’s 100m record of 10.49 seconds, but in 2017 alone, 744 male athletes ran 100m in less than 10.49 seconds. 744. In one year.

In a 2018 interview, on Good Morning America, Miller explains that instead of complaining, the girls should try harder. Miller and Yearwood are also “Courage Award Recipients” this year and will be honored at the 78th Gold Key Event on April 28th.

In her YouTube video, Selina Soule says, “The media has been even worse, attacking us and portraying girls as sore losers. And that we should try harder. We do train very hard, but when a mediocre boy athlete can outperform the best girl out there, any day, because of their physical superiority, we are just losers, not sore losers.”

As Ms. Soule points out, losing track events means losing the attention of college coaches and scholarship opportunities (unless one has wealthy parents, or falsely claims to be an approved minority). That’s a small price to pay for maintaining the new reality that the modern mind controls and determines biology, of course, but one can still sympathize with girls like Selina who have yet to catch up with our brave new world.

Price it, sell it

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No, not a knock-out exterior, but it’s great inside, where presumably the new owner will live

No, not a knock-out exterior, but it’s great inside, where presumably the new owner will live

75 Oneida Drive sat unwanted for four months, from October 5 to February 5, while its price barely budged from $5.4895 million to $5.295. That listing expired, Steve Archino was brought in, and either he used his awesome powers of persuasion or the sellers were just sick of owning the place, but the house was put back on the market at the end of April for $4.350 and 34 days later, it’s under contract. I feel for the original agent: she really had just six weeks to move the house before the holiday shut down, and lost the listing just as the spring market was beginning, but that’s the peril in being the first listing agent.

And if she’d started $900,000 lower than she did, then maybe she could have sold in 34 days, as Steve has just done.

If you can't meet your standards, lower your standards

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SAT to introduce “diversity scores”.

The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in college admissions.

This new number, called an adversity score by college admissions officers, is calculated using 15 factors including the crime rate and poverty levels from the student’s high school and neighborhood. Students won’t be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.

The College Board, the New York based nonprofit that oversees the SAT, said it has worried about income inequality influencing test results for years. White students scored an average of 177 points higher than black students and 133 points higher than Hispanic students in 2018 results. Asian students scored 100 points higher than white students. The children of wealthy and college-educated parents outperformed their classmates. 

Yale University is one of the schools that has tried using applicants’ adversity scores. Yale has pushed to increase socioeconomic diversity and, over several years, has nearly doubled the number of low-income and first-generation-to-attend-college students to about 20% of newly admitted students, said Jeremiah Quinlan, the dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale.

“This [adversity score] is literally affecting every application we look at,” he said. “It has been a part of the success story to help diversify our freshman class.”

James Conroy, director of college counseling at New Trier High School, which serves several affluent and mostly white communities north of Chicago, said the focus on diversity by elite colleges is already high and the adversity score would magnify that.

“My emails are inundated with admissions officers who want to talk to our diversity kids,” Mr. Conroy said. “Do I feel minority students have been discriminated against? Yes, I do. But I see the reversal of it happening right now.”

At Florida State University, the adversity scores helped the school boost nonwhite enrollment to 42% from 37% in the incoming freshman class, said John Barnhill, assistant vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University. He said he expects pushback from parents whose children go to well-to-do high schools as well as guidance counselors there.

“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,” he said.

I wonder how this will affect whites’ perception of the competence of black and hispanic college graduates.