What the California 2016 Assessment of Student Performance and Progress Shows.

Academics are crowing about the small gains that have been made, overall, in the most recent tests of proficiency in English and Math in California high school students. However, they bemoan the fact that only 49 percent of California students are proficient in English and only 37 percent are proficient in math. More troubling to them are the marked racial differences in the test scores. The wide gap in performance between the Asian and white students on one hand and black and Latino students on the other, despite years of focused efforts and the infusion enormous amounts of state and federal funds to close this gap, is particularly perplexing to our educational leaders. State Superintendent of Education Tom Torlakson called the racial differences :"pernicious and persistent." It is not clear if Superintendent Torlakson understands the reason for the marked racial disparity we are seeing on our California schools, most likely he does not. "We'd like to see more of a state of urgency and more progress for English language learners and low income and African-American students in particular," said Carrie Hahnel of the Oakland advocacy Educational Trust-West. As I've said many times, they people do not have the slightest clue as to why racial differences in educational achievement persist despite over 50 years of effort and billions of dollars of funding to close the racial educational gap for the blacks and Latinos in our country. The statistics provided by Noguchi and Tsai in the August 25th edition of the East Bay Times provides the answer. Despite differences in the economic background of the students tested, the statistics never changed. In this respect, Asian students on average always outperformed all other racial groups, irrespective of their environmental background, and whites were only a few points behind them. On the other hand, blacks, irrespective of the economic circumstances of their parents and the environmental status of their childhood, always placed dead last in the English and math proficiency tests. Latinos, with one exception in Santa Clara County, always, marginally, outperformed blacks. Filipinos, the only other race included in the statistics, had mean scores that were only slightly lower than the whites tested. Anyone who has read Herrnstein and Murray's Bell Curve knows exactly what this latest group of educational statistics tell us. Asians, on average, do better in school, not because their superior study habits, but because their mean IQs are 3 to 9 points higher than that of the white population. Blacks and Latinos will always fair less well, on average, than their white and Asian counterparts in their educational endeavors because their mean IQs are 15 and 13 points, respectively, lower than that of the white population. Nothing the politicians can do will change the basic fact that there are marked disparities in inherited racial IQ. We should be spending more time and money dealing with the consequences of these differences and less of our limited resources trying to change the unchangeable (more jobs for the uneducated, reducing the birth rates of low-IQ single mothers, reestablishing the black family and reducing the numbers of low IQ Mexicans who are crossing our boarders illegally by hundreds with each passing day. In summary, the latest educational statistics for California High School students are, for the most part, simply a reflection of the racial disparity in the IQs of the students tested. Until we understand this fact, nothing will change and we will continue to waste monies, that we do not have and must borrow, on misguided social programs like school busing and head-Start. Finally, we should stop blaming the teachers for their inability to educate the uneducable in classrooms teeming with rowdy misfits who should be in reform schools, not the class room.

Yes, black lives matter, but not in way most people think.

Blacks make up less than 15 percent of the population. Yet 150 years after their emaciation, and after numerous attempts to make them normal functioning members of society, as a group, they remain one of societies biggest problems. All of our attempts to right the supposed wrongs of the past, including school bussing, numerous affirmative action and head start programs have failed to make the slightest difference in the lives of the average Black American. In fact, you can make the case that blacks who are not born with exceptional athletic ability are worse off now than they were in the days before Lyndon Johnson set in motion the federal welfare policies that broke up the black family. With 72 percent of young black males either in prison or on parole and over 70 percent of black babies being born to single mothers, one wonders how things could get much worse for blacks or the society in which they live. But, if things stay the same, it will. You can bet your last dollar on that! One thing we have learned from our futile attempts to stamp out all vestiges of racism and to make things better for the black community is this. With rare exception, black single mothers, aided by their mothers and grandmothers are incapable of raising black children so that they will become functioning members of society. This is especially true for black boys who, if they are fortunate enough not to have been gunned down by members of their own race, most often end up in prison. Of course, there are exceptions to this sad state of affairs. A few blacks, those with exceptionally high IQs, do become educated and make something of their lives. Invariably, these black men and women move out of the black communities in which they were born and settle in white suburbs where, for all practical purposes, they become white. These exceptional individuals flee the black ghettoes where they were born, leaving them unchanged in the slightest. In this respect, the slums of Oakland, Detroit, Chicago and Flint Michigan are, by any standard, in worse condition now than they were 50 years ago. When all is said and done, America is paying a heavy price for Blacks who, for whatever reason, have not been able to assimilate into the American way of life. Undoubtedly, the destructive social policies of Johnson's great society, and the many liberal boondoggles that followed have played a role in the Blacks failure to integrate into American culture. However, programs like Head Start do not fail because of lack of effort or lack of recourses. No, these programs fail, in large part, because the mean IQ of the average Black is 15 IQ points lower than that of the average white and there is little or nothing that can be done to change this disturbing fact after a child is born. Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray pointed out the problems facing those who are born with below average IQs, both black and white, in their masterpiece The Bell Curve. The data presented in this 871 page tour de force is a must read for anyone interested in tackling the social problems we face in twenty-first century America. The refusal of liberal politicians and educators to recognize the basic differences in inherited intellect between the races is largely responsible for the inner city decay we are experiencing in most of our large cities today. But you may be asking, how would recognition of the fact that there are racial differences in inherited intellect change anything for the better? There are several ways this might happen. First, we should stop paying low IQ women, both black and white, to have children. In fact we should be paying them not to have children. This can be accomplished by a state or federal program that would pay inner city single women a stipend, $5000 seems about right, to have a Norplant injection that would prevent them becoming pregnant for five years. The monies saved by not having to pay for prisons that would house the males that they otherwise give birth to during the five year period of volunteered sterility would, in the long run, more than pay for such a program. More significantly, over a period of 10 to 15 years it would greatly decrease the crime rate. Along these same lines, there should be financial, and other incentives, that would encourage educated females, again both black and white, to have larger numbers of children. In short, we must encourage smart women of all races to have more children, otherwise in a few generations we will become a land of dullards. At present the medical profession and the Silicone Valley are becoming more dependent with each passing day on foreigners who were trained in India, China and elsewhere to fill the jobs available because there are not enough educated Americans to meet the need. This problem would be alleviated, at least in part, if professional, well educated intelligent women of all races were having more babies. We should be doing more to make this happen! Finally, we should begin making things again in America so that there will be well paying jobs for those who want to work, but do not have the mental capacity to become educated. In this respect, there is no reason that tennis shoes that sell for over $150 cannot be made in America by American workers rather than by someone living in a third world nation where humans work for a few dollars a day and live in abject poverty. This will require stiffer tariffs on imports and tax incentives for manufactures who are willing to make the products they sell in the good old USA. Along these same lines, once the jobs are available, people who now depend on welfare should be forced to take them, or be directed to the nearest soup kitchen. This would go a long way towards decreasing America's staggering rate of obesity. So yes, black lives do matter but in a very negative way. Our inner city ghettos are teaming with blacks who can neither read or write and have no chance of making anything of themselves in today's high-tech world. Our political leaders should recognize the intellectual limitations of those living in black America and do whatever is necessary to rectify the problem. More government freebies, single mother families and earlier and earlier head-start programs are not the answer!

Two very bad choices, what to do?

Faced with the Clinton-Trump debacle, what is a conservative voter to do? On the one hand you have a congenital lying demorat who has spent most of her adult life feeding at the public trough and made hundreds of millions while doing so. This women is crookeder than a dogs hind leg and belongs in prison, not in the White House. There also is a real question of whether or not this women is healthy enough to serve. On the other hand you have the Donald, a egomaniac loose cannon who will say and do anything at the drop of a hat, irrespective of the consequences. If we have learned anything about this buffoon in the past year or so, it is that he is incapable of learning from his past mistakes and verbal blunders, continuing to step into it with both feet at every opportunity. If this guy has an IQ over 100 I would be greatly surprised. By the way, the reason Trump refuses to reveal his tax returns results from the fact that he is nowhere near as wealthy as he would have us believe. So what are we to do? The answer is not as complex as you might think. The key to the upcoming election is the status of the Supreme Court and the other federal benches in the decades to come. At least three, and possibly four, of the liberals on the present Supreme Court will either die or retire during the next president's term. If Hillary is elected they will be replaced with similar herd of liberal activists, of that you can be sure. In that case, our country, now teetering on financial and societal ruin, will go under, of that I have no question whatsoever. If Trump somehow prevails in the upcoming election it will be a crap shoot because no one, probably not even Trump, has the slightest idea what he will do when faced with proposing nominees for the federal courts. Some believe, as I do, that this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing who will appoint a series of liberal jurists to the various federal courts. If this is the case, it makes no difference if the congenital liar or the buffoon is elected, we are doomed either way. But if Trump prevails, there is at least a chance that doomsayers like me are wrong and that Trump will actually build the damned wall, cut bureaucratic red tape and appoint conservatives to the federal courts. Thus, when all is said and done, we are left with no choice, holding my nose and crossing my fingers, legs and toes, I will begrudgingly vote for Trump and hope for the best. I suggest that you do the same.