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Thread ID: 12560 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2004-02-29
2004-02-29 07:01 | User Profile
[url]http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/8060733.htm[/url]
Minority students a slim majority in Florida's schools
ST. PETERSBURG -- (AP) -- Minority students now make up a slim majority in Florida's public schools, state officials said.
Last fall, an annual head count found 50.3 percent of the state's 2.6 million students are minorities.
Florida is the sixth state to cross that threshold, joining Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Minorities are also the majority of the student population in the District of Columbia.
In Florida, whites are still the largest group, with 49.8 percent of Florida's public school students. Blacks make up 23.9 percent of the population, Hispanics comprise 21.7 percent, multiracial students 2.3 percent and Asians 2 percent.
Demographers credit an influx of young immigrant families and higher birthrates among Hispanic and black women for the increase in minority students.
But a disproportionate percentage of Florida's white students attend private schools, contributing to the shift. In 2000, nearly one in six white Florida student was enrolled in private schools, according to the U.S. Census. By comparison, one in 11 Hispanic students, and fewer than one in 20 black students attended private school.
The shift also raises questions about how schools will close the longtime achievement gap between white and minority students. In every Florida school district, minority students score lower than white students on tests measuring reading and math skills.
''The changing landscape and look of Florida is not so important as that all children are learning,'' said Florida Education Commissioner Jim Horne. ``The emphasis is on all.''
Some demographers say in the long term, the trend will also be felt outside school systems.
''As those populations age, they will have a greater impact on the racial and ethnic imprint of the entire state,'' said Stan Smith, a demographer at the University of Florida.
2004-03-10 21:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE]The shift also raises questions about how schools will close the longtime achievement gap between white and minority students. In every Florida school district, minority students score lower than white students on tests measuring reading and math skills.[/QUOTE]
Can this be True????
Oh yeah, I guess it is. California has been minority-white for several years now and the trend has not changed. Even with literally billions spent on ESL, spanish language classes, and dumbing the studies down to the most basic levels. The Majority students, read latino, cannot learn, drop out and become career criminals at an incredible pace.
I wonder what it all means??
2004-03-11 01:12 | User Profile
Amazing how everything goes their way when their numbers are lower, everything goes even more in their favor as a majority.
2004-03-11 04:55 | User Profile
Florida can no doubt look forward to duplicating the academic performance levels demonstrated in most of CA's public schools. Of course, it's just a lack of funds that has CA wallowing at the bottom of the lists. The fact that CA spends more $$$ per student and is lowest on the scrotum pole seems to NOT find its way into too many articles on the ... disaster. Oh yeah, FLA and CA are also sterling examples of Hispanic (and black) achievement, values, work ethic...
2004-03-16 11:21 | User Profile
I feel very sorry for the students now.
I had to work a job in CA once where my fellow workforce was majority minority (huh, that sounds like some logical fallacy..hehe). Anyways it was hell, pure unadulterated hell. I can't even begin to imagine what a high-school like that must be like.
One thing we all can do is to speak out against the jews who created this immigration/ multiculturalism mess. ITZ COMING
2004-03-20 18:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Roy Batty]Florida can no doubt look forward to duplicating the academic performance levels demonstrated in most of CA's public schools. Of course, it's just a lack of funds that has CA wallowing at the bottom of the lists. The fact that CA spends more $$$ per student and is lowest on the scrotum pole seems to NOT find its way into too many articles on the ... disaster. Oh yeah, FLA and CA are also sterling examples of Hispanic (and black) achievement, values, work ethic...[/QUOTE]
Fortunately, I got the family out of South Florida, where the majority of the invasion's impact is being felt. There still is a part of America here in North Florida...I just hope it stays American until my kids are out of school.
2004-03-20 18:27 | User Profile
I bet that whites are a minority in the majority of big city public school systems in the nation. Yet, how many of these school have organizations for whites? None? I bet everyone of them, even where whites are a small minority, have programs that whites aren't welcome to join.
2004-03-25 11:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]I bet that whites are a minority in the majority of big city public school systems in the nation. Yet, how many of these school have organizations for whites? None? I bet everyone of them, even where whites are a small minority, have programs that whites aren't welcome to join.[/QUOTE]
The only major city with a majority white public school system is Portland Oregon, which has unique anti-developement laws. This prevents whites from fleeing to suburbs and keeps prices too high for many nonwhites. The conservatives and libertarians hate this of course.