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> honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latino students. What gripes me about this is that if they offered a
by prirun 4y ago
> honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latino students.
What gripes me about this is that if they offered a Black History or Latino History class that didn't attract many white kids, that would (IMO) be okay.
> The district earlier this school year replaced the honors classes at Culver City High School with uniform courses that officials say will ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education.
Are they also going to eliminate resources and courses devoted to special ed kids and adjust the curriculum accordingly to "ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education"?
- 908B64B197 4y ago>> honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn't enroll enough Black and Latino students. How much of that can be explained by ESL speakers? California has an above average percentage of students whose language spoken at home isn't English and or who are themselves immigrants. And is this one of these studies grouping Whites and Asians together (some activists started using the term "white adjacent" recently for that [0])? >> The district earlier this school year replaced the honors classes at Culver City High School with uniform courses that officials say will ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education. "equally rigorous" can very well mean "dumbed down to the mean". It's actually what California aims to do by getting rid of advanced math classes (by grouping all students together the pass rate suddenly looks better for everyone! [1]). And that's not even touching some of the more controversial they plan to bring into the classroom. Now math is racist [2] [0] https://www.asian-dawn.com/2020/11/17/school-district-categorizes-asians-as-white-adjacent/ https://www.asian-dawn.com/2020/11/17/school-district-catego... [1] https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke-equity-calculus/ https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke... [2] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
- dvngnt_ 4y agowhich is wild because I know the black community didn't ask for this
- Der_Einzige 4y agoAre you sure? Mother's know that having "honors students" share space in a class with other students is supposed to help the other students. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the black community absolutely asked for this.
- matt-attack 4y agoThere's already been a movement in the last decade to integrate special ed kids into normal classrooms. My kids experience this today.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThat’s because it’s less expensive than specialized care facilities.
- mrguyorama 4y agoAnd also because poorly funded segregation style special ed hasn't done very well.