This really angers me!!!!

[KenP]

This is about a MATH TEST the Justice Department says is discriminatory! A freaking MATH TEST!!! Now you don't have to be so bright. When I took the Math portion about 9 years ago I missed only 6 questions out of over 100 and was the first one finished. I swear the questions only went to 4th grade.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories...502&ran=157902

Beach police agree to drop cutoff score on math test

By DUANE BOURNE, The Virginian-Pilot
© April 4, 2006

VIRGINIA BEACH — The city has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations that it discriminated against black and Hispanic police recruits.

Under a consent decree filed Monday in federal court in Norfolk, the city will change the way it scores the police entrance exam.

The Justice Department had complained that the math portion of the exam had an adverse effect on minority applicants and unfairly excluded them from being hired.

The city will offer to let 124 black and Hispanic former applicants resume the hiring process. Those recruits failed the math test between 2002 and 2005 but would have passed under the new standards.

The city also will create a $160,000 fund to compensate those applicants....

From 2002 to mid-2005, about 85 percent of white applicants passed the math exam, compared with 59 percent of blacks and 66 percent of Hispanics.

Under the old standard, Virginia Beach required all recruits to score 70 percent on each of three written tests for reading comprehension, grammar and spelling, and math...

Background:

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories...9291&ran=84449

Feds say Beach's math exam for police recruits is discriminatory

By DUANE BOURNE, The Virginian-Pilot
© February 9, 2006

VIRGINIA BEACH — The U.S. Justice Department has found that the math portion of the Virginia Beach Police Department’s entrance exam discriminates against black and Hispanic applicants.

In a letter to the city released Wednesday, the Justice Department said its findings were based on results of a math test administered to all entry-level police officers.

The Justice Department said it will sue the city if Virginia Beach does not take appropriate measures to end discrimination and provide “sufficient remedial relief” to previous job applicants.

On Wednesday, city officials said they do not discriminate and the math portion of the exam assesses job-related skills.

[KenP]

The city will offer to let 124 black and Hispanic former applicants resume the hiring process. Those recruits failed the math test between 2002 and 2005 but would have passed under the new standards.

"Welcome to the Academy. You're a lot dumber than the rest of us and probably don't know how to work a computer, but welcome anyway."

[Kiraco]

I have taken those tests! If you were paying attention in class it shouldn't be a problem. I believe they are still multiple choice too.

[CO Hummer]

You applied for the Beach Police, Ken?

[PARAGON]

The city also will create a $160,000 fund to compensate those applicants....

[DDWH]

Originally posted by PARAGON:
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nice!

[HIHUMMER]

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Whether they choose to continue to the Police Academy, those 124 former applicants are entitled to seek a share of the $160,000. The pool contains two funds: $128,000 for black applicants and $32,000 for Hispanic applicants.
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Then they are going to PAY them for being stupid!!!!!!!

[Ipedog]

Originally posted by HIHUMMER:
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Whether they choose to continue to the Police Academy, those 124 former applicants are entitled to seek a share of the $160,000. The pool contains two funds: $128,000 for black applicants and $32,000 for Hispanic applicants.
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Then they are going to PAY them for being stupid!!!!!!!

I'm sorry but this is just plain wrong. Don't pay them for being stupid. If you MUST pay them due to a law suit then pay them to go back to school so that they can pass the GD Test! Don't lower the passing score!

Fu.king amazing...

[ShaggyX]

And this is why I dont vote. Because no matter who you vote for a Dumbass is going to get elected that cares more about political correctness then the advancement of our country.

BTW...if that was off-topic I appologize...it seemed to fit at the time.

[NewHummerGuy]

Time to move to like Sweden. Or Norway.

I really cant stand the direction this country is taking. Really sad and really scary.

The NAACP has divided America almost single handedly. This is not what The Rev Martin Luther King had in mind. I can gurantee you that. Anytime they damn well please alls they need to do is bitch a little, and then they get paid to shut up and go away.

Kind of like Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition bull****. He goes to a company, sees how many minorities are working there, then bithces and threatens to sue. What does the company do???? Pay him off to make him go away. Then he uses the "HUSH" money to pay for his illigitimate children.

I wonder........They say within the next 10 years the Northern Virginia area will be majority hispanic leaving whites/caucasions as the minority. Should we create the NAAWP?????

I am not racist by any means. But at some point you just feel like you will never win and it may just be best to ride off into the sunset....in your HUMMER

[Marcmedic]

When people now apply for fire department jobs around here they are given bonus points for being a minority. This also goes for promotions within the department itself.

[Marcmedic]

I herby nominate Ken as president of the NAAWP!

[RIC-H0]

I guess Pancho Villa is still winning some battles!
Viva La revolution!

"OHH...Thaa Sokay! Dey gunna hire me anyweys, cuz I cun cheetrok purty goot"

[NewHummerGuy]

cuz I cun cheetrok purty goot

LMFAO....hahahahahah...i could hear myself saying it...toooooooo funnaayyyyyyyyy

[KenP]

Originally posted by Kiraco:
I have taken those tests! If you were paying attention in class it shouldn't be a problem. I believe they are still multiple choice too.

They are.

Now the dolts that continue with the hiring process have to take the BPAD test next. That's an expensive test and on top of that, I bet most won't pass anyway.

Shaggy, this was caused by the justice department, not really any politician's fault.

CO Hummer, yes. I passed all the tests, physical, math, verbal, BPAD (with one of the highest scores they'd seen), polygragh. Everyone of them, but too many people had made it that far so I was cut. They said it was because I had a ticket in '89. My last one, BTW.

I did well because I had one State Trooper and one VB police officer giving me tips, and playing racquetball together 4-5 times a week to get into shape. They told me all about the BPAD, which made that test a breeze.

Later that year a person that must have gotten lucky and passed the math test was arrested while in uniform. He'd just gotten out of the academy I would have attended and was soliciting sexual favors. What a dumbass.

[CampMaster]

It's not whether they got the answer right or wrong but how they felt about the question.

...and make sure any notation on the test is done in a non-threatening purple pen. Color psycologists say purple is a less negative and more constructive color for grading because it has red's sense of authority but also blue's feeling of serenity.