NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Jessica Tarlov is not new to having to defend the moves by liberals and Democrats as a host on the highly conservative 'The Five' on Fox News.
This time, she was put on the spot by Greg Gutfeld on the subject of racial disparity in the country.
The panel was discussing the new rule of equitable grading in the schools of Portland which was trashed by majority of the hosts.
Gutfelt, on the other hand, brought attention to Tarlov for the Democrats' consistent emphasis on racial disparity.
Jessica Tarlov speaks up against Portland's 'no zeroes' policy
Tarlov was first brought in to comment on the equitable grading policy, according to which teachers had to score their students above a zero regardless of their performance in any assessment.
Tarlov said, "I'm very against this. It's just workshopped at this point; I hope they don't go for it."
Mentioning a similar policy in Oregon that was later dismissed by the state, she added, "I would say again that I have not met real-life people that are supportive of these kinds of policies."
Sandra Smith seemed to be the only one speaking in favor of the policy as she thought it helped the students rather than putting them forward without decent grades.
Smith said, "We are just passing kids through the system. You give them a zero and what happens next? So, part of this experiment needs to be to send them off somewhere else..."
She added, "Have a special class format for bringing these kids through. But giving them a zero and passing them through the system is almost worse, right?"
Greg Gutfeld brings up 'racial disparity'
As the panel's discussion came to a conclusion, Gutfeld cross-questioned Tarlov's first comment.
"It's kind of a weird party to be in when you worry they don't succeed," he said, targeting her statement about wanting the rule to not be successful.
Gutfeld then asked, "This whole idea of racial disparity comes from your party. And equitable grading is in fact racist because you are addressing these people as a group rather than individuals. That's part of your party!"
Tarlov then came in to argue that the suggested policy was not limited to working towards racial disparity.
She said, "You can acknowledge that there are systemic challenges facing poor kids in this country, Black and Brown kids in the country..."
She was again cut off by Gutfeld, who asked, "What about White kids?" To which she readily added, "And White kids!"
Gutfeld then continued his rant by saying, "You don't need to separate these kids into groups in order to help them...If you look at kids as individuals, this problem falls away...that's the racist part of it."
Tarlov went on to place more emphasis on the fact that the Portland policy extended to White children just as much to which Gutfeld dismissingly said, "I think I've crushed you, Jessica."
"I feel okay," Tarlov said, closing the segment.
