The Bell Curve Strikes Back: Atlanta Journal Constitution Looks at Academic Fraud Across America and Sees a Rising Tide of Minority Dysfunction

The findings aren't the ravings of madmen; ignoring them, however, is mad.

The Atlanta Public Schools (APS) cheating scandal, where almost entirely Black administrators, Black principals, and Black teachers conspired to increase primarily Black students test scores has set The City Too Busy To Hate back thirty to forty years. Let's take a quick look at the scorecard for APS:

Student enrollment:  48,000
Student demographics: Black students, 80.9 percent/ white students, 11.3 percent/Hispanic, 3.4 percent/American Indian and Alaskan, 2.1 percent/Asian, 0.8 percent.
Percentage of students with disabilities: 9.1
Percentage of students on free and reduced lunch: 82. 1
Of the 4,375 students in the gifted and talented program. 51.3 percent are black, 40.9 percent are white, 1.9 percent are Asian and 1.7 percent are Hispanic
Of the 2,070 students who received in-school suspensions,  89.1 percent are black, 6.3 percent are Hispanic and 3.6 percent are white.
Of the 5,170 students who received out-of-school suspensions, 95.4 percent are black, 2 percent are Hispanic and 1.8 percent are white.
Of the 285 students expelled, 98.5 percent are black and 1. 8 percent are Hispanic. There are no white or Asian students expelled.

White students enrolled in the APS district sure are disproportionately represented in gifted programs.

The gains on the tests by these primarily Black students set off alarm bells at the Department of Education, for they were statistically impossible based upon decades of aggregating Black students test results.

Firmly established results and racial patterns have emerged, which immediately cause consternation for any school district that sees increased improvements within the minority community. Teacher bonuses became tied to increased student performance, an impossible goal in a world where reality is shaped - not by the machinations of Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) - but by the forces Charles Murray and Richard Herrenstein described in the book The Bell Curve.

Now, The Atlanta Journal Constitution has decided to investigate other school districts around the nation, after the Black people in charge of APS gave the city a Black-eye through the cheating scandal. Washington D.C. and Philadelphia have been rocked with similar scandals, where the racial gap in education appeared to close.

Sadly, cheating proved to be the only way that Waiting for Superman could transpire.

Here's what the AJC found (please note: all students in enrolled in Detroit Public Schools - 90 percent Black enrollment receive free lunches):

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s investigation found concentrations of extreme swings in test scores in several urban school systems, resembling a statistical pattern that indicated organized cheating in Atlanta. The degree of changes in these districts defies statistical probability.

ATLANTA
Enrollment: 50,009
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 75 percent
AJC analysis: From 2005 through 2009, questionable scores appeared in 233 classes, compared to the 65 that would be expected, based on other Georgia scores. Odds: less than 1 in 1 trillion.
History: State investigators in 2011 confirmed cheating at nearly two-thirds of elementary and middle schools. About 180 educators were implicated in the scandal.
High stakes: Teacher bonuses were based on meeting district-set targets, primarily test scores. Principals were allowed “no excuses” not to boost scores.

BALTIMORE
Enrollment: 84,212
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 83 percent
AJC analysis: From 2006 through 2009, suspicious changes in 228 classes; 116 would be expected. After district began aggressively investigating cheating, fewer classes flagged, and those were mostly for decreases. Odds: 1 in 100 billion.
History: From 2008 to 2010, investigators found evidence that educators at three elementary schools changed students’ answers on state achievement tests. Sixteen schools have been implicated.
High stakes: Student progress heavily influences teacher evaluations.

DALLAS
Enrollment: 157,575
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 76 percent
AJC analysis: In 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011, 242 classes exhibited suspicious scores; 130 would be expected. Odds: 1 in 100 billion.
History: In 2011, an investigation found that students at one elementary school were being taught only reading and math – the only subjects taught on the state tests. The students’ social studies and science grades were fabricated.
High stakes: Since 2007, some teacher bonuses have been based on student performance.

DETROIT
Enrollment: 75,263
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 85 percent
AJC analysis: Suspicious scores in 181 classes in 2008 and 2009, compared to an expected 57. Odds: less than 1 in 1 trillion.
History: The state identified questionable erasures on some Detroit tests in 2009.
High stakes: N/A

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.
Enrollment: 7,275
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 100 percent
AJC analysis: In 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011, suspicious scores surfaced in 46 classes, compared to an expected 12. Odds: 1 in 100 billion.
History: In 2003, news reports said the district excluded special-needs students from testing and violated test-security policies.
High stakes: N/A

GARY, IND.
Enrollment: 10,221
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 94 percent
AJC analysis: In 2006 and 2007, 40 classes had questionable scores, while eight would have been expected. Odds: 1 in 1 trillion.
History: No public reports of cheating.
High stakes: N/A

HOUSTON
Enrollment: 204,245
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 79 percent
AJC analysis: Since 2006, 307 classes exhibited improbable changes, compared to an expected 177. Odds: less than 1 in 1 trillion.
History: After the Dallas Morning News identified possible cheating in 2004 and 2007, the district fired numerous principals and teachers.
High stakes: In 2011, 75 percent of the district’s teachers received bonuses through a pay-for-performance system.

LOS ANGELES
Enrollment: 664,233
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 79 percent
AJC analysis: In 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2011, 740 classes showed unusual changes, compared to an expected 572. Odds: 1 in 1 trillion.
History: In 2010, Los Angeles shut down six charter schools accused of cheating on state tests. Last year, the district accused teachers of giving questions to students in advance of testing, improperly coaching students and changing answers.
High stakes: N/A

MOBILE COUNTY, ALA.
Enrollment: 63,000
Eligible for free or reduced-price meals: 68 percent
AJC analysis: From 2008 to 2010, suspicious scores occurred in 91 classes; 42 would be expected. Odds: 1 in 10 billion.
History: No public reports of cheating.
High stakes: The district began offering performance-based bonuses to teachers in low-performing schools in 2004.
Sources: School districts, National Center for Education Statistics, National Center for Performance Initiatives, staff reports.
Notes: “Classes” refers to grade-wide test administrations. Also, numbers for enrollment and free or reduced-price meals are for the most recent year for which data was available.

Wait a second... what is the correlation between these school systems? Is is "free lunches" -- a sign that the parents of the students lacked the job skills (intelligence) to provide for their children and force the state to care for their feeding?

How many white kids actually attend these schools? Let's look at Dallas first, a city that is in line for being Detroit-ed soon if only based on the current demographics of the students enrolled in public schools there and the resoundingly pathetic test scores they produce:

30 years prior to 2003, half of DISD's students were White. As time passed, the White population decreased due to private schools and white flight. As of 2003, DISD was 58% Hispanic, 34% African American, 6% White, and 2% Asian and Native American. As of that year, 190 DISD schools were 90% or more combined black and Hispanic, 37 schools were 90% or more Hispanic, and 24 schools were 90% or more black.

Gary, Indiana is 84 percent Black and a city that was Detroit-ed long ago. The Visible Black Hand of Economics is on full display there, with ample evidence illustrating why this phenomenon occurs producing the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state of Indiana.

East St. Louis, Illinois? 97 percent Black, with the highest crime rate in the nation:

East St. Louis has the highest crime rate in the United States (according to the FBI's 100 most dangerous cities list). According to FBI's data of 2007, its murder rate hit 101.9 per population of 100,000, surpassing that of cities such as Gary, Indiana (48.3 per pop. 100,000), New Orleans, Louisiana (37.6), Baltimore, Maryland (43.3), and Detroit, Michigan (47.3), as well as that of its neighbor St. Louis (37.2). FBI data shows East St. Louis' rate of rape exceeded 250 per population of 100,000.

Mobile, Alabama? Sixty percent of the county is white, with the sons and daughters of these families primarily attending private schools or racially homogenous schools. It's the Black schools that are failing.

And finally, Houston Independent School District. Most white people in Houston send their sons and daughters to private schools, while the HSID is only seven percent white, 61 percent Hispanic, and 27 percent Black.

Oh, and Atlanta Public Schools are 80 percent Black. Surrounding the city reside some of the top performing school districts in all the nation. The students in those districts? Over 80 percent white.

The future ain't what it used to be, primarily because the reality of The Bell Curve can't be discussed in public. All of the aforementioned school districts the AJC looked are at almost all populated by students of color. When you understand that The New York Times celebrated these twin facts, you begin to wonder what the future will actually look:

The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities, according to a new report. 

So, we should laud the AJC for daring to do an expose that looks at cheating around the nation. But the writers of this study failed to include the one piece of data that ties it all together: race.

In the absence of white students (and Asian), school systems collapse. Administrators and teachers must resort to cheating, with the slightest uptick in progress immediately alerting the Department of Education of fraud because of long-established academic results of minority students.

No matter how long we ignore it, the findings of The Bell Curve always strike back. Suspicious test scores across the nation? Only because of the primarily Black mean results that have been long established on these tests.

Twenty years after its publication, The Bell Curve findings still go unheeded. How many cities must be Detroit-ed until they do?

#18. The Model Minority

The date is best immortalized in a painting by Howard Pyle, and his drawing depicts an event vastly important in the history of the civilized world.

1619. The year Black people were first introduced to the North American continent and to the land that would 160 years later be the United States of America:

“On August 20, 1619, a Dutch ship arrived at Jamestown. Twenty captured Africans, who were sold as slaves at Jamestown, were on board. The initial Blacks to arrive were considered indentured servants (servants who were bound by contract), like many whites in similar circumstances. The Blacks were freed many years later, when terms of their servitude contract ended.”

Since this auspicious event, Black people have been disingenuous white liberal’s favorite object of ameliorating – to mixed results – and were (until only recently) historically the largest minority group in America.

Black people will soon be celebrating their Quadricentennial anniversary on this continent, and yet the past nearly 400 years haven’t been the greatest experience nor produced results on par with other racial groups that lack predominate ancestry from Europe:

“Despite a seventh straight year of improved test scores statewide, results released today show California schools failed to make a significant dent in a historically immovable achievement gap - one that leaves black and Hispanic students lagging well behind their white and Asian peers.

Based on the rate of improvement from 2003 to 2009, it would take up to 105 years to close the white/Hispanic achievement gap and at least 189 years to close the white/black gap, which has failed to narrow by even a point in English since 2003, according to scores released today.”

Asians – a term used to describe any non- European white who also has white skin – have been around in the United States for a long time. Worse, they have experienced discrimination as well, putting them at the historic disadvantage of Black people (although Black people were saddled with the chains of slavery for a few hundred years):

“In 1763, Filipinos established the small settlement of Saint Malo in the bayous of current-day Louisiana, after fleeing mistreatment aboard Spanish ships. Since there were no Filipino women with them, the Manilamen, as they were known, married Cajun and Native American women.^[7]

Chinese sailors first came to Hawaii in 1778 the same year that Captain James Cook came upon the island. Many settled and married Hawaiian women. Some Island-born Chinese can claim to be 7th generation. Most Chinese, Korean and Japanese immigrants in Hawaii arrived in the 19th century as laborers to work on sugar plantations. Later, Filipinos also came to work as laborers, attracted by the job opportunities, although they were limited.

Numerous Chinese and Japanese began immigrating to the U.S. in the mid-19th century for work, because of poor economic conditions in their home nations. Many of the immigrants worked as laborers on the transcontinental railroad. Although the absolute numbers of Asian immigrants in the late 19th century were small compared to that from other regions, much of it was concentrated in the West, and the increase caused some Americans to fear the change represented by the growing number of Asians. This fear was referred to as the "yellow peril." The United States passed laws such as Asian Exclusion Act and Chinese Exclusion Act to sharply restrict Asian immigration.

During World War II, the United States government declared Japanese Americans a risk to national security and undertook the Japanese American internment, authorized by President Franklin Roosevelt with United States Executive Order 9066. This controversial action forced the relocation of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, taking them from the west coast of the United States to hastily constructed War Relocation Centers in remote portions of the nation's interior.

This chapter in US history was a result of war hysteria, racial discrimination, and economic competition. Sixty-two percent of those forced to relocate were United States citizens. Starting in 1990, the government paid some reparations to the surviving internees in recognition of the harm it had caused them and their families.”

Wait a second. Black people aren’t the only minority racial group in America – 5 percent of Americans are of Asian ancestry? Wait. Asians experienced discrimination at the hands of the majority as well?

Hold the presses… why aren’t Asian-Americans impacted as severely as Black people by the historical stain of racism? Could it be because they are the ultimate manifestation of the “Model Minority”, when compared to the other minority groups in the United States?:

“Model minority refers to a minority ethnic, racial, or religious group whose members achieve a higher degree of success than the population average. It is most commonly used to label one ethnic minority higher achieving than another ethnic minority. This success is typically measured in income, education, and related factors such as low crime rate and high family stability. The term is often characterized as a myth which amounts to racial stereotyping.

In the United States, the term is associated with Asian Americans, primarily Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian and to a lesser extent, Vietnamese and Filipino Americans.

A common misconception is that the affected communities usually hold pride in their labeling as the model minority. Statistics are often cited to back up their model minority status such as high educational achievement, overrepresentation at Ivy League and other prestigious universities, and a high percentage of Asian Americans working in white collar professions (jobs such as medicine, investment banking, management consulting, finance, and law).”

Black people and Asians have faced discrimination in the United States (Chinese were excluded from immigrating to the United States for the fear of overwhelming the Western states in the late 1880s) and yet, crime rates among Asian-Americans are lower than whites:

Defenders of the relative accuracy and reliability of the racial demographic component of crime statistics in the US point to international crime statistics showing remarkably similar results. INTERPOL statistics on homicide, forcible rape and aggravated assault from the years 1984-1996 are reported to show the same racial disproportionality, with Asian (Mongoloid) and White (Caucasoid) populations rating consistently lower than Black (Negroid) populations.

In 1996, the rates per 100,000 were estimated at 35 for Asians, 42 for Whites and 149 for Blacks, yielding a Black rate more than 3 times the Asian or White rate.”

Black crime however, is a color all unto itself.

Black people look at the continent of Asia and the success of Asia with disbelief. These non-European, white-looking people have built a massive civilization, had tremendous success in the United States and have dealt with historical abuses from the same European-people, yet still try and act white!

Some would argue the “Model Minority” act more white than European-descended people!

However, the notion of “Model Minority” is hardly one of veneration:

The report, by New York University, the College Board and a commission of mostly Asian-American educators and community leaders, largely avoids the debates over both affirmative action and the heavy representation of Asian-Americans at the most selective colleges.

But it pokes holes in stereotypes about Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, including the perception that they cluster in science, technology, engineering and math. And it points out that the term “Asian-American” is extraordinarily broad, embracing members of many ethnic groups.

“Certainly there’s a lot of Asians doing well, at the top of the curve, and that’s a point of pride, but there are just as many struggling at the bottom of the curve, and we wanted to draw attention to that,” said Robert T. Teranishi, the N.Y.U. education professor who wrote the report, “Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight…

The report, based on federal education, immigration and census data, as well as statistics from the College Board, noted that the federally defined categories of Asian-American and Pacific Islander included dozens of groups, each with its own language and culture, as varied as the Hmong, Samoans, Bengalis and Sri Lankans.

Their educational backgrounds, the report said, vary widely: while most of the nation’s Hmong and Cambodian adults have never finished high school, most Pakistanis and Indians have at least a bachelor’s degree.

The SAT scores of Asian-Americans, it said, like those of other Americans, tend to correlate with the income and educational level of their parents.

“The notion of lumping all people into a single category and assuming they have no needs is wrong,” said Alma R. Clayton-Pederson, vice president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, who was a member of the commission the College Board financed to produce the report.

“Our backgrounds are very different,” added Dr. Clayton-Pederson, who is black, “but it’s almost like the reverse of what happened to African-Americans.”

Yet, almost every major city has an area denoted as “Chinatown”, an ethnically homogeneous spot where Asian-Americans have crafted peaceful existences for themselves and their progeny, while building small businesses and creating an environment where their off-spring can join the American majority in the middle-class.

A hilarious 1980s film, "Big Trouble in Little China" dealt with the notion of "Chinatown".

During the LA Riots of 1992, the “Model Minority” found their stores looted and pillaged by the “Model-Idiot Minority”, and these Black people found AK-47’s pointed directly at them.

People love to visit Chinatowns. Black people don’t like to mention what their towns are called, and worse, why few people wish to visit them.

Another 1980s film, "The Guardian" showed life in the ghetto, and how white liberals react to it.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like includes the moniker of Model Minority, for if a people who have spent nearly four hundred years on this continent alongside the white majority can’t be denoted the “Model Minority”, then Asian-American’s shouldn’t get that title either.

After all, Black people know their the "Model Minority" anyway, for McDonald's went 365 Black, not 365 Asian. Of course, crusading white pedagogues find the ability for "The Model Minority" to outpace all other racial groups grounds for concern, for positive images for this group don't require sports alone.