The #1 obstacle for public schools is the requirement that they "attempt" to educate every student. That then requires schools to mix those that are brighter with those that aren't, those that want to learn with those that don't. Quickly, it becomes a game of teaching to the lowest common denominator. When race comes into play, and you look at percentages of those who don't want to learn and those who disrupt class, and those that aren't capable of high performance and it becomes a racial bias thing.
The OP's link is a good read on just this.
I am yet to figure out how mathematics can be racist? Maybe it is. If it is, it seems biased toward Asian students around here. This has also lead to a GPA scale that is greater than a 4.0 scale. What was once considered normal college prep work is considered "advanced placement. Since the watered down lowest common denominator work has gread inflation, we needed to develop a new scale.
They don't work with composition, so the kids can't write a coherent paragraph. They cannot use transitions words and phrases, and have a painfully limited vocabulary. When in doubt, they use "phouc, phoucing, phoucer, or simply "mother phoucing phoucer" when at a loss for something else. The magical world of Twitter - say it in less than 280 characters.
