What could possibly go wrong?
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Let’s admit, using this language takes balls.
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Waiting for appeal docket:
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What could go wrong?
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Yeah - it’s only the “testing skills” which are weak. Just like the democrat (sic) party’ only problem is “messaging” (i.e. propaganda). It goes without saying that their policies - based upon their received wisdom - must certainly be correct, just not “explained” properly at the level of retail politics. Could it possibly be true that the educational establishment (lavishly-funded public schools controlled by Marxist teachers’ unions) has been and continues to FAIL their students?
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Maybe we are being too pessimistic about the educational system. The kids are all right … at least some of the kids. Here’s an article about the 2024 Math Prize for Girls at MIT.
2024 Math Prize for Girls at MIT sees six-way tie | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“In first place was Shruti Arun, 11th grade, Cherry Creek High School, Colorado, who last year placed fourth; followed by Angela Liu, 12th grade, home-schooled, California; Sophia Hou, 11th grade, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Virginia; Susie Lu, 11th grade, Stanford Online High School, Washington, who last year placed 19th; Katie He, 12th grade, the Frazer School, Florida; and Katherine Liu, 12th grade, Clements High School, Texas — with the latter two having tied for seventh place last year.”
Astute readers will notice something about the names. It is reminiscent of the analysis about how the US beat the USSR in the Space Race – Our Germans were smarter than their Germans.
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Notice, not even one white girl.
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And that wouldn’t be so bad if all the white girls were stay at home moms raising several children, but we know that isn’t the case. No, we’re entering an era where people of European descent are an underclass and looked upon with great disdain by our Chinese and Indian overlords. Well done, conservatives!
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You made me check. In the second-place group of 8 girls, there was one non-Chinese name. Is the overwhelming dominance of Chinese-ancestry female students in math genetic, or cultural, or aspirational, or peer pressure?
The photo of the 14 first-place winners is interesting. (The sign says “Top Ten”, but it is MIT after all; the DIE administrators don’t have that Chinese familiarity with numbers). Looking at the clothing choices, posture, facial expressions of the young women, they are a very diverse group – in the real meaning of diverse.
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I don’t understand this point.
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I guess it was a joke. 
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Set aside the Indian-heritage girl … those Chinese-heritage girls do not look like cookie-cutter products of Tiger Mother pressure. From their differing appearances, it looks like – if we could talk to them – we would find out that they have different personalities, different aspirations, different outlooks on life. True diversity!
Of course, I could be wrong! 
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I wouldn’t have expected otherwise. The Western stereotypes of Asian culture (e.g. tiger mothers, wrote-learning, unthinking cookie-cutter “drones”) are just excuses for our lack of discipline and makes us feel better about ourselves—it is our undoing. But in one particular area at least—and one might argue in an area that actually counts (i.e. mastery of mathematics)—these girls are a most “undiverse” group. Too bad more Europeans don’t embrace that kind of “undiversity”.
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Is it “safe” in today’s world, to assume we are - in actual fact - looking at girls? Being old-fashioned and (according to the leftist revealed brand of “science”), thus “anti-science” and/or “un-scientific”, I define girls as humans having XX chromosome pairs (at least in their germ cell line - to be ‘inclusive’ in order to account for rare genetic mosaicism in some organs) as well as breasts capable of lactation, vaginas, uteruses, and ovaries along with the usual attendant hormonal apparatus suited to pregnancy.
Depending on who’s in charge of this event, who knows what might be found as to what may have erroneously been “assigned at birth”?? Since physical prowess is not on display here, as I understand woke dogma, only how one “identifies” is controlling as to gender. Unspoken is the balls it takes to expect the entire world to not only accept such delusions, but to vigorously and enthusiastically applaud them whenever they become apparent.
In a broken, woken world, where 2 + 2 =4 is white supremacist and racist, can we trust our lyin’ eyes?? Even if we do, to what extent are their achievements a result of the educational system vs. how much was innate or due to parental pedagogy?
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All of the above. We’re maximizing a multivariate equation—every incremental improvement counts.
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Well, scrutinizing that photo more closely, the young lady on the far right is clearly above average height for Asian ancestry girls, and appears to want slightly more personal space than the others – but that would be a very tenuous basis for wondering if she was an alter-ed boy.
But to be more serious, why is it so difficult to find a similar photo of the winners of MIT’s “Math Prize for Boys”? Is there a lawyer out there who can spell “discrimination”?
To be even more serious, we all accept there is a good case for female-only sporting competitions, simply because it would be very discouraging for girls to be beaten almost every time in competition with physically larger & stronger males. But that rationale does not apply to an intellectual pursuit like mathematics. Is MIT telling young women that they are academically non-competitive against male students?
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