So apparently expecting students to come to class and hand in assignments is racist

Illinois High School Changing Grading Criteria to Achieve Racial Equity of Outcome

In an effort to equalize test scores among racial groups, OPRF will order its teachers to exclude from their grading assessments variables it says disproportionally hurt the grades of black students. They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan. “Traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities and intensify the opportunity gap,” reads a slide in the PowerPoint deck outlining its rationale and goals.

You see, the problem is never the student, especially if that student is Black. The problem is the manner in which society judges people. As we are finding out many on the left believe that meritocracies in general are racist because they judge people on merit. Your race baiters will argue that the entire idea of meritocracy is just the white man holding the others down, by not accepting blame for their racism or acknowledging their privilege. 

Because the only reason a Black student might skip, cause disruption, or skip assignments is racism against them. Meanwhile the only reason a White student might come to class, behave, and turn in assignments is privilege. Failure to acknowledge that no blame or credit can be given in the individual student is akin to favoring White supremacy.  We cannot allow the White student who does well in school to be rewarded for effort, anymore than we can punish a Black student for any lack of effort. 

And then at the end of the day, if one student of one race actually learns more than another from a different race... that is an indictment of the system and somehow must be correctly. Not by increasing the knowledge of the subject, mind you. But rather by undermining that knowledge and trying to "level the playing field" by force. 

But as we have found in a global economy with mass migration and remote working... the vast majority of the world does not play by those rules and are not obligated to do so. If we dumb down our learning to appeal to the lowest common denominator, then we will do little more than train a generation of underlings who will work for and under those from other countries who are actually learning.  

As the Judge famously said in Caddyshack. The world needs ditch diggers too. That appears to be the strategy of our American educational system. To allow the rest of the world to produce the engineers, doctors, and scientists... while we will supply the ditch diggers. But at least those ditch diggers will be of all colors.