To Increase 'Equity,' This California High School Is Eliminating Honors Courses

[Kamaji]

To Increase 'Equity,' This California High School Is Eliminating Honors Courses

"I was born in Cuba, and it doesn't sound good when people are trying to achieve equal outcomes for everyone," said one parent.

EMMA CAMP
2.21.2023

One California high school has eliminated honors classes for ninth- and 10th-grade students. While school officials claim that the change was necessary to increase "equity," the move has angered students and parents alike.

"We really feel equity means offering opportunities to students of diverse backgrounds, not taking away opportunities for advanced education and study," one parent who opposed the change told The Wall Street Journal.

Starting this school year, Culver City High School, a public school in a middle-class suburb of Los Angles, eliminated its honors English classes for ninth- and 10th-graders. Instead, students are only able to enroll in one course called "College Prep" English. The decision, according to school administrators, came after teachers noticed that only a small number of black and Hispanic students were enrolling in Advanced Placement (A.P.) courses.

"It was very jarring when teachers looked at their AP enrollment and realized Black and brown kids were not there. They felt obligated to do something," said Quoc Tran, the district's superintendent. According to an article by The Wall Street Journal's Sara Randazzo, data presented at a school board meeting last year showed that Latino students made up 13 percent of 12th-grade A.P. English students, despite comprising 37 percent of the student body, while black students made up 14 percent of A.P. English students while comprising 15 percent of the student body.

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Source:  https://reason.com/2023/02/21/to-increase-equity-this-california-high-school-is-eliminating-honors-courses/

[Kamaji]

[DB]

And there's the brilliance of modern academia in a nutshell... With all their brilliance they can only lower everyone to the lowest common denominator while ignoring the obvious...

[LMAO]

The obsession these people have with diversity and equity is going to guarantee that we slip further and further and further behind the rest of the world

[Kamaji]

The obsession these people have with diversity and equity is going to guarantee that we slip further and further and further behind the rest of the world

[andy58-in-nh]

The obsession these people have with diversity and equity is going to guarantee that we slip further and further and further behind the rest of the world

Ayn Rand... please pick up the white courtesy phone....

[berdie]

This is one of the craziest things I've heard/read in a long time. And the good Lord knows there is plenty of crazy.

Maybe the so called teachers aren't smart enough to teach the courses.

[Smokin Joe]

And there's the brilliance of modern academia in a nutshell... With all their brilliance they can only lower everyone to the lowest common denominator while ignoring the obvious...

I have long maintained that public and often private schools are geared toward the slower students. Those who are truly gifted are SOL, unless they can get into college courses and get HS credit, too, and that after years of being held back at every level.

Even the communists have the sense to pluck the best and brightest and send them to accelerated schools.

[Kamaji]

I have long maintained that public and often private schools are geared toward the slower students. Those who are truly gifted are SOL, unless they can get into college courses and get HS credit, too, and that after years of being held back at every level.

Even the communists have the sense to pluck the best and brightest and send them to accelerated schools.

It depends on the public school district in question.  My daughter's district, for example, provided substantial advanced courses for students who were above the average; other districts not so much.

The issue here is that the district in question is intentionally getting rid of advanced courses in the misguided belief that this will improve the status of the "black and brown" students (to quote from the article).  In other words, a racially-based version of the tall poppy syndrome.

[catfish1957]

Ayn Rand... please pick up the white courtesy phone....

Or cue Mike Judge for Idiocracy II. 

[Fishrrman]

Average IQ for East Asians - 106
Average IQ for European whites - 100
Average IQ for Hispanics - 89*
Average IQ for blacks 85

Source:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028960200137X

* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316324951_THE_LATINO-AMERICAN_BELL_CURVE_IQ_EDUCATIONS_AND_INEQUALITY

The reality is, that "equity" is... impossible.

[Smokin Joe]

It depends on the public school district in question.  My daughter's district, for example, provided substantial advanced courses for students who were above the average; other districts not so much.

The issue here is that the district in question is intentionally getting rid of advanced courses in the misguided belief that this will improve the status of the "black and brown" students (to quote from the article).  In other words, a racially-based version of the tall poppy syndrome.

My last two years of High School were in a Private School. It got me out of the race riots, into a program where I could take AP courses.
Unfortunately, the damage done to my math skills by having a teacher in the public schools who could not work the problems on the board (and who would not be replaced due to strictly political considerations) was something I never really recovered from. I went from an advanced math student to average, and never regained my enthusiasm for the subject.

I did arrive at College with a year's worth of English credit (AP exam), and that was worth something.