Ron sent me this story
A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.
Equity? Has that replaced equality?
Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the program for new students next year.
“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius told GBH News. “There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”
Ah yes. Racism rears its ugly head. Mustn’t have that.
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A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.
School Committee member Lorna Rivera said at a January meeting that she was disturbed by the findings, noting that nearly 60 percent of fourth graders in the program at the Ohrenberger school in West Roxbury are white even though most third graders enrolled at the school are Black and Hispanic.
“This is just not acceptable,” Rivera said at a recent school committee meeting. “I’ve never heard these statistics before, and I’m very very disturbed by them.”
Can’t have those evil white and Asian students outperforming African and Hispanic students. That would be racist.
I remember in my 9th grade Civics class (before the schools had been taken over by rat bastard commies) my teacher taught that communism rather than lifting people up pulled everyone down and that’s what we have here. Africans and Hispanics can’t keep up, so we’ll pull the white and Asian students down.
To quote Ron, “Lower the bar so the hippo can jump over it.”
We’re doomed!
Even if the enrollment is predominantly white and Asian, there are still black and Hispanic students who will be held back.
If kids, bright or otherwise, are not challenged they get bored and slack off. This policy has the effect of bringing the bright kids down to the level of the lowest performers. Often even lower.
It’s nothing less than child abuse.
Equity to the lowest common denominator. No one gets ahead and the communists make their permanent underclass just that much more permanent.
Kill the middleclass and it’s utopia – for the elites.
Not necessarily. When I was in 10th grade biology, 5 of us in the classs had a competition to see who could be responsible for preventing grade curving on every assignment and test. Ryan, Perry, Vince, Liz, and I had a cumulative average of 99.4 in that class.
The underlying issues are documented very clearly in “The Bell Curve – Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” by Herrnstein and Murray.
“We don’t like the intelligence test results, so outlaw intelligence testing (done by SCOTUS in 1971 Griggs vs. Duke Power Company).”
The authors responded “You can discontinue intelligence testing, but you can’t make intelligence unimportant.”
The hippo will complain when you lower the bar even further for Yamiche Alcindor.
Considering how she is hurting advanced students, contrast her actions with what the City of Boston BS page says about Dr. Brenda Cassellius:
“With more than three decades as an educator, Dr. Brenda Cassellius has devoted her career to ensuring all children succeed and thrive. With an unrelenting commitment to ensuring every child receives an equitable, exceptional and joyful education, her leadership is student centered, supportive of educators, and grounded in collaboration and effective community partnerships.”
When you have somebody this stupid, they are guaranteed to have a Dr. of Educ. before their name, like our First
LadyQuack in the White House.“blacks are as smart as whitekids”…… Slow Biden
Saw a picture of the lunatic Superintendent and couldn’t figure out what the hell it is.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/27/brenda-cassellius-has-weathered-tough-education-politics-minnesota-and-tennessee/B1yMbOFHzIIKVp2h6zvDjP/story.html
“Apr 27, 2019: Cassellius is African-American but also “a quarter Lebanese, and an eighth Irish and an eighth German,” as she told the School Committee.”
Mmhmmm, like Kampuchea Heels Up Harris…. one in the woodpile.
Every. Time.