Racial Profiling

  Racial profiling is law enforcement and private security practice that disproportionately target people because of their ethnicity for investigation and enforcement. For example, airport officials pulled someone aside and questioned him before allowing him to board a plane simply because he’s a Muslim American, and they thought he might be a terrorist. Just because he is Muslim does it make it right for you to assume him as a terrorist?

 

From my prior knowledge I learned that The Fourteenth Amendment states, very clearly, that no state may "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Racial profiling is  based on a standard of unequal protection. Blacks and Latinos are more likely to be searched by police and less likely to be treated as law-abiding citizens; whites are less likely to be searched by police and more likely to be treated as law-abiding citizens. This is incompatible with the concept of equal protection.

  

  
  Racial profiling continues to be a prevalent and gross form of discrimination in the United States. This unjust practice remains a stain on American democracy.Refereeing back to paragraph one :since September 11, 2001, new forms of racial profiling have affected a growing number of people of color in the U.S., including members of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities. The Obama administration has inherited a shameful legacy of racial profiling codified in official FBI guidelines and a notorious registration program that treats Arabs and Muslims as suspects and denies them the presumption of innocence and equal protection under the law.

 Policies and practices have wrought destruction on individuals, families and communities, tearing them apart through unjust detentions, raids and more. It is hard for critics to trust the American society with ethnicity and cultures. This is why they continue to discriminate and profile them. One can make a mistake but why blame the entire society or ethnic group on that one event. Yes, we face adversity but maybe we will better ourselves to treat each other equally.

 

 

Should We Abolish Grading

   Abolishing grading can either be beneficial or substandard.  Grading is an option for schools to predict what a student would make on a test or should we forget about grading and continue ahead with standardized testing.

  Students across the country would agree to abolish grading for lagging reasons such as being lazy or apathetic. I personally think that grading should stay in the schools. When we begin school learning should occur naturally. Students choose if they are willing to learn or if they want to place restrictions on their education.

  Every school has an academic standard. Usually test determine if a student is performing well in school. Meanwhile I depend on my grading and academic scores to see how well I am carrying out. I use my grades as an guide to improve my scores. For most people grading is basically a waist of time; in the future schools are most likely to leer into our test scores.

  Schools across the nation only look at test scores. Ivy League schools have a reputation to withhold and a real academic student would have an outstanding test score, but for me I have to better my testing skillsin order to improve my testing scores. I have the grades of a semi genius but when I take test I tend to perform on a proficient level rather than advanced.

  After reading " A Proposal to Abolish Grading," by Paul Goodman, I've learned so many different perspectives of  the subject. For instance some think that grading is nullifying the various use of testing. Paul Goodman stated that "testing for student and teacher would mean structuring and finding the weakness in the student." This could definitely be taken for granted. In my opinion this is very unfair. A child should be tested on the ability of improvement not the mistakes on a test. this will only make the situation for the student worse because they would feel like giving up and think that the test is worthless , so what would be the point for grading .

  This may be a hard decision but it takes deep thinking and we have to think about the future and what it would be like for others if grading was really ABOLISHED.