RM> I'm waiting, however, for a very heavy shoe to drop... Seems
RM> the state has noticed that there aren't too many minorities
RM> in our honors programs, and that minorities are 
RM> disproportionately represented in special education.  Want 
RM> to bet that our honors programs will shortly "sleep with
RM> the fishes"?  I imagine we'll also see a dumping of some of
RM> those SE kids into mainstream classrooms.  I have no doubt
RM> this will really benefit our educational program.... %-{
    It won't benefit those special-ed kids either.
    An out-of-court settlement resulted in a two-phase quota program at 
UNC-Chapel Hill, one quota for freshmen admissions and another for 
sophomores.  UNC-Chapel Hill found it could meet the freshman admission quota 
by literally going open admission for blacks, but then it never could meet 
the sophomore quota because they flunked out in such overwhelming numbers.  
(The school is the "flagship" state university, otherwise hard to get into.)
RM> I'm 49 and will have to teach to 62... I don't mind the 13
RM> years so much, but if I have to watch the systematic
RM> dismantling of excellence in favor of "fairness" over those
RM> years, it's going to be a very long stretch of time indeed!
    I wish you luck.
RM> crook, these bureaucrats are determined that everyone will
RM> graduate, and graduate knowing the same amount of material;
RM> that this will be less than some are capable of learning
RM> doesn't seem to faze anyone..... Really depressing....
    Don't blame just the bureaucrats.
    The NEA is against ability grouping, too.
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