Phil Eiger Newmann, Dumbin’ it Down, 2021.
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“Think of how stupid the average person is,” comedian George Carlin once told an audience, “and then realize half of ’em are stupider than that.”
Since I’m an innately kind soul who abhors cruelty in all its forms, I won’t instruct you to think of how stupid the average Baltimore public school student is, because even to ponder the issue might send you hurtling down a mental abyss from which you may likely never escape.
But there is an unnamed Baltimore teenager — he’s black and has a stupid haircut, that much is confirmed — who only passed three classes in all four years of high school and STILL wound up ranked number 62 out of 120 total students. His cumulative GPA at the end of four years was a measly .013 — and yet there were 58 pupils at his school who couldn’t even crank out a fucking .013.
Think of how stupid you have to be to pass three classes over four years and fail ALL of the rest — and then realize that almost exactly half the students in your graduating class are stupider than that.
Over four years, this young black male with such terrifying potential that this white-supremacist society keeps snuffing out at every turn was late or completely absent a staggering 272 times. When he wasn’t aggressively failing his courses, he managed to pass one English class, one class called Fundamentals of Art, and one Health Ed class. Assuming that Fundamentals of Art requires you do little more than identify the primary colors and that Health Ed requires you to show up in gym shorts every once in a while, this young black male really only passed one academic class — and since this is Baltimore and the topic is English, I’ll go out on a limb and assume he passed the class merely by being able to pronounce the word “English” correctly.
Cut to the ominous closeup of the Angry Black Mother as she stares at the camera, pissed-off at the world for failing her son. Tiffany France is the mom of the nappy-haired Boy Dumbo who only passed three classes in four years of high school. She also says she is “probably going to start crying” after realizing that her son, after attending four years of school, is now being sent back to the ninth grade to start all over again. She claims to work three jobs and insists that the school, over the course of four years, never notified her that her son was failing nearly all of his classes:
I feel like they never gave my son an opportunity, like if there was an issue with him, not advancing or not progressing, that they should have contacted me first, three years ago. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn’t deserve that.
So it’s not your son — the one who showed up late or played hooky 272 times and only passed three classes in four years — who is the failure. It’s the school’s failure. If they’d only sent da damn mentors to help him, he’d be the smartest damn boy in all of Baltimore. Interesting take there, lady.
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Little Boy France’s school, the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in West Baltimore, is named after a black female sculptor who seemed to specialize in sculptures of black people in various states of emotional distress. Miz Savage would likely be turning over in her cocoa-butter-scented grave to learn that in 2006, her namesake school was singled out as one of the seven lowest-performing schools in a city system that boasts 188 public schools, with hardly any of those 188 worth braggin’ about in the first place. It’s also a system that attempts to educate a student body that is slightly more than TEN times as black as it is white.
A 2020 U.S. Census Report found that of the 100 largest school districts in the country, Baltimore has the fifth-highest level of funding per pupil. Students there have $17,493 tossed their way every year, compared to a national average of $12,612. So Baltimore schoolchildren get nearly 40% more funneled toward their education than the average American kid does, but they still don’t know how to tie their shoelaces or spell their own names after a dozen years of public schooling.
So much for your whole “poverty causes stupidity” thesis. I’m pretty sure you have that one backward.
An unnamed Baltimore City Public Schools administrator told a local FOX channel that hearing about this mentally impaired average Baltimore student reminded him — I think, it doesn’t make much sense — that low test scores inevitably lead to high murder rates:
I get angry. There’s nothing but frustration. We see on the news the crime that occurs, the murders, the shootings, we know that there are high levels of poverty in Baltimore. Things like this are adding to that. His transcript is not unusual to me. I’ve seen many transcripts, many report cards, like this particular student.
A pair of writers for the Brookings Institution say that “SAT math scores mirror and maintain racial inequity” instead of the barkingly apparent answer, which is that structural inequities are the inevitable result of biological inequities. While admitting that “Black and Hispanic or Latino students routinely score lower on the math section of the SAT” than white and Asian students do, they say this is “a likely result of generations of exclusionary housing, education, and economic policy” rather than the result of smart people wanting to exclude dumb people from their neighborhoods.
A writer for the Washington Post avoided the obvious answer — the students in Baltimore public schools are as dumb as black mold on an abandoned surfboard — and instead blamed low test scores in “marginalized communities” on the alleged “inequity baked into the funding system”: “Add to that the effects of the national uprising for racial justice, sparked by the death in police custody of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis.”
OK, I just added George Floyd to the equation. Sadly, that addition didn’t add any total points to black test scores. Going into full gaslight mode by calling the idea that academic performance can be gauged accurately by standardized testing an “obsession” and a “mania”, the same Post scribe says that them there tests don’t mean nuthin’ no way:
“It didn’t matter that testing experts repeatedly warned that using scores for these purposes was not valid or reliable. . . .”
Who are these “testing experts”? More importantly, what qualifies someone to become a “testing expert”? Did they have to, like, take some kind of test?
And hey — what do those evil tests tell us, anyway?
In 2018, the mean Asian SAT score was 100 points higher than the white mean, which was 133 points higher than the Hispanic mean, which was 44 points higher than the black mean. Although Asians account for less than six percent of the US population, 60% of those who score 750 or higher on the math portion of the SATs are Asian. They are followed, in order, by whites, Hispanics, and blacks. These same disparities, always skewing in the same pattern, are echoed in IQ tests and per-capita income, which correlates very closely to a group’s mean IQ.
It’s obvious that we now live in a society hell-bent on eliminating anything that makes black people look bad, so now the new movement in education is to downplay the importance of testing. The consistent test results, replicated everywhere over generations, are clearly racist.
A recent report from the National Center for Fair and Open Testing claims that 85% of America’s top liberal arts colleges will not require a student’s standardized-test results during the admissions process. This same no-test-required policy is now being practiced by every Ivy League school except Princeton — it’s obviously the only way to cram more blacks into our nation’s loftiest institutions of higher learning.
Imagine a nation — one of the mightiest in world history — allowing itself to crumble to dust due to no other reason beyond its stubborn refusal to admit that whites are not superior at basketball.
Substitute “blacks” for “whites” and “basketball” for “intelligence tests,” and that’s America in 2021.
Rather than admitting the obvious problem, we have a society determined to close its eyes, rush forward, and commit seppuku on Occam’s Razor.
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32 comments
Spot on, as always. Deeper into the “education” outhouse, even white kids at the Wawa can’t make change unless the newfangled cash register tells them how much. Nothing but exasperation if you try to give them the portion of your purchase cost that are single cents — the look of confusion and panic in their eyes would be comic if you weren’t hoping for SOME sign of normal training in the next generation. I am starting up a franchise for The Church of God the Immaculately Indifferent, if anyone is interested. Even dollar figure so you don’t stumble over writing the check.
Wouldn’t it be easier on everyone if we just gave black children $12,000 a year just to keep out of the way and stop pesting everyone?
I guess the contractor/teacher industrial complex is a jobs program for white angels.
This is probably what willll happen. Reparations for staying in your neighborhood and out of sight.
You do have a gift, sir, for turning the unspeakable into the hilarious.
I laugh, but my face and my chest hurt.
The good news is that reports like this are making it increasingly difficult for Left people to keep holding on to their theory of Man as Blank Slate and their corollary belief that the races of man are cognitively and temperamentally equal.
In my interactions with SJW’s, they seem to be ever more stressed-out as they candidly acknowledge these academic horrors, and in their desperation to explain them some seem to be getting closer to accepting that racial-genetics may be operating. What other recourse do they have?
Note that the current position of the Left on the race question is very much like that of the Catholic Church versus Galileo. The Church had to keep defending their untenable Terra-centric Theory even in the face of contrary evidence, to avoid losing credibility among the faithful. But the Heliocentric Theory prevailed anyway, against all odds, when the evidence became overwhelming and undeniable.
So despite the Left’s current ideological reign of terror, as racial realities such as the above story pile up, an ideological mutiny and collapse on the Left is probable, and we should prepare to exploit the resulting opportunity.
The accusation of systemic white supremacy was invented so that the left/liberal has something to fall back on when faced with cases like this. “The Baltimore school system is structurally racist, if this boy was white they would have interceded before things got this bad.” There, all responsibility for Tyrone’s problems has been shifted to white racism.
IMO the best strategy right now is to endlessly point out that Asian students out-perform white kids and Asian adults earn more than white adults. That may cause some headaches for them. They can’t really explain how Asians out-compete whites in a white supremacist system without attacking Asians as benefiting somehow from white privilege. Maybe we can get the New York Times to accuse white Americans of secretly and unanimously giving Asians “honorary Aryan” status.
The answer to “System racism” is to point out that this group of people are in charge of the system:
https://www.baltimorecityschools.org/board-commissioners
The George Carlin quote is accidentally pasted a second time into your opening paragraph. Made for a very confusing sentence.
Today’s Newmann drawing is a keeper.
“commit seppuku on Occam’s Razor.” -That’s a top-notch metaphor.
As an aside I want to say I’ve always really liked your hyperlink humor (and by “always” I mean less than 4 months); it reminds me of fun sites like this.
Greeg! Greeeeegggggg! It doesn’t show hyperlinks in the pre-approval view either.
Occam’s Butter Knife
As someone reported to Prevent for formulating right-wing analyses and deconstructions of all the Marxist BS in my Literature course, I can truly say that ‘Got a loicence for that philosophical principle?’ is our future.
To put down the spear is to accept the spoon. Words are our tools and we do well to keep them sharp.
Excellent article, as usual.
Goddamn, these Negroes are dumb. Wholly shit.
So this kid’s mother thinks the school he seldom attended let him down? What are they supposed to do, hire a P.I. to find him every day and drag his ass into class? It also sounds like mama paid little to no attention to how her kid was doing over four years. Didn’t she notice he never did any homework? Angry black mama blames everyone but herself.
I tried to send this article to someone via Instagram messenger and it wouldn’t let me. It gave me a prompt that said “we restrict certain content to protect our community”
Really glad my friends are safe!
Try breaking up the URL with spaces so it isn’t recognized. Works everywhere I’ve ever tried it.
Something is afoot in all the educational systems and moving quickly. They are obscuring board exam scores for the medical step exams and making it pass/fail. Many med schools are switching to a pass/fail format. This is all about shoving more blacks through, you can bet. I could dilate for some time in this, but no one ever seems interested.
Did you guys see the news about that demon law school professor who was fired from Georgetown for saying blacks were always at the bottom of her class? They put the prof who heard it on suspension just for hearing the blasphemy! They were recorded on Zoom without realizing it.
She’s not even mean about it, either. She said some were good and seemed to be pained by the fact that most were not.
If what you say is true wrt medical schools, I’d certainly like to see your source(s). This could make for a major GOP (and white nationalist) breakthrough issue. I have hated affirmative action for 45 years, and have tried to get white morons (BTW all you “IQ supremacists”: please explain why smart people and races can be so dumb) to see the dangers in AA aircraft mechanics, doctors, nuclear reactor workers, powerline workers, etc. But a radical dumbing down of the nation’s doctors is something that even liberals would be uneasy with. GOP could run with this if true; white nationalists could follow in their ‘jetstream’, explaining the racial WHO and WHY of this decline in medical certification standards.
You honestly think the GOP would dare to point out the dangers and stupidity of a pass/fail system designed to “restore racial equity” in the medical system? Didn’t those cowardly chumps not even have any speeches addressing immigration at CPAC?
But a radical dumbing down of the nation’s doctors is something that even liberals would be uneasy with.
No, it isn’t.
GOP could run with this if true;
No, it couldn’t.
All you can say against the said dangers will not avert them; the only “correction” may come against those who speak about it. Maybe the white morons figured this out already, maybe they can see the dangers just fine. Sorry about this blackpill.
Why not remove that yellow sidebar when entering the articles?
You can.
At least it works for me on my antique tablet. If I expand the article slightly it morphs into full screen mode which makes reading very easy.
An edit function would be nice however. For some reason I only notice my typoos after I post.
One correction, “Over four years, this young black male with such terrifying potential that this white-supremacist society keeps snuffing out at every turn was late or completely absent a staggering 272 times”
I watched the piece on FOX5, missing 272 days actually occurred in his first 3 years. Amazingly fucked up, and the mother says the school “failed him”.
How much ya wanna bet that everyone who’s insisting on dumbing down med school has the money to make sure they themselves never have to be treated by a doctor who went to school after their pet policies were put in place?
That’s pretty stupid of them then to believe that… — because anyone can have an auto accident and end up in some “unselected” Emergency Room with one of these Affirmative Action morons “operating”….
That’s truer than you know. There seems to be the idea in medicine that when people fail out of their residencies or can’t get jobs because they were so bad and got passed through, that they should be “moonlighting” in rural emergency rooms. ER is a hard field and one of the last places I would want an idiot. There have been several AA type persons I have known who are now “moonlighting” thusly.
Most of them aren’t rich, they’re just cultists. You have to understand that only a few “White” Leftoids think beyond the next couple of years and actually understand what they are doing to Western societies…and those people certainly aren’t Leftists when it comes to their own ethnostate. The average White Leftist truly believes that there is a vast White Supremacist infrastructure behind every Jamal stubbing his toe or Juan having to pick strawberries when he really wants to be a lawyer.
I have a hard time blaming Tyrone for playing hooky when even the “nice” public schools are spending their days teaching neo-Marxism and New Math in structures modeled after penitentiaries.
Seems to me the solution is to separate the blacks into their own land where school is no longer compulsory and they can feed off themselves. This constant effort to bring white institutions down to the level of blacks can’t end well for all involved. Divorcing whites from blacks will help both live happier lives since blacks claim to not want to adhere to even the most basic standards of life. Now black farmers are in line for another batch of reparations from the latest virus monstrosity. Pigford all over again. And we will be the ones footing the bill. Can we really find a way to separate and make the walls impenetrable?
Terrible what the whites did to Dindoonuffin.
If I had the chance to go to an arts magnet school like this ungrateful little prick did, I would have been there every day, learning and having the time of my life, even if I had pneumonia. You can give digital native brats ANYTHING and they will make excuses for themselves while they stomp all over it and ruin it. Meanwhile, some of us get nothing but lemons and still manage to make some kind of tasty drink out of it, but that’s just because… privilege? It’s too bluntly absurd to even be funny.
I’ve been working in the college system for going on two decades and I’m here to tell you- it’s worse than you think.
Testing has been going bye-bye for a long time now with the staggeringly quick demographics and it’s only a matter of time before grades are gone, too. Think I’m exaggerating? I’m not. Just stay tuned. The main reason the Communist maroons are pushing for ‘free’ college is they know what it’s about to be worth- jackshit.
All the qualified professors are reaching retirement and they’re gleefully pursuing it and their pensions. The new breed of professor…. well, I don’t need to tell you, if you read Jim Goad you already know.
The last frontier is the sciences. To date, there’s no way to bluff your way through Biology Lab by appealing to Social Justice, so for the time being, nurses and dental hygienists will remain qualified.
As for Mr. .013 GPA in Baltimore? I feel bad for him. It’s not his fault his mom is a moron and his dad is, hey, wait a minute, where’s his dad?
A fascinating analysis of the dysgenics of Baltimogidishu:
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/city.htm
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