By Douglas V. Gibbs
Dateline Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Police Department, in an attempt to ensure enough African-Americans pass the exam, under orders of the U.S. Department of Justice, is lowering its testing standards for recruits.
Such a move is an indication that our failing education system (82% of schools are failing according to the House Education and Workforce Committee) is being enabled in more ways than one by the federal government.
The change in standards is also a horrendous chop to African-Americans.
Rather than changing the scoring requirements, which only addresses the symptoms, it is time to close down the Department of Education, kick the federal government out of educating our children, and allow the public school system to follow the same standards and methods of the private schools across America - who put out superior students on about a third of the budget of public schools.
An additional problem associated with the dropping of standards for recruits is that it opens up a safety issue when police departments, because of the lower test standards, wind up with incompetent officers caught in a life and death situations. Failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed is dangerous when it comes to public safety. In the end, by lowering the scores, the new employees do not tend to be the best qualified.
The key is not to lower the requirements, but to ensure that the applicants are properly taught long before testing, regardless of who they are.
The federal government, through the D.O.J., by forcing police departments across the country to lower testing standards, claiming that it is because there are not enough black candidates passing, is literally making our streets less safe.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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