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Boston Public Schools have suspended advanced classes for 4th – 6th grade as a result of these classes not being diverse enough.
These advanced classes were for students that preformed well on a special test given to students. 453 students received invitations to the program, 143 students applied to the program and 116 were enrolled in the advanced classes.
Boston Public Schools are 80% Black and Hispanic while the program has 70% White or Asian students.
From GBH News:
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.”
Following publication of this story, Cassellius told GBH News that equity concerns about the advance work program were not the motivation for suspension of the test this year. She said the test suspension was only a consequence of the pandemic making it impossible to administer the test.
Many online are railing the Advance classes program as racist while many are railing what is being called a politicization of the education system by activists.
Forrest: You miss the whole point of this exercise, it is NOT about making kids smarter, it is about making everyone FEEL BETTER. They might be stupid but they do feel much better about their stupidity.
So a student is not allowed to take classes because there are not enough kids of other races who are smart enough to take these classes. So instead of trying to bring the intelligence level of the overall student body UP, it is easier to bring the overall intelligence level DOWN. This will make the Stupid Students feel better about themselves, which after all is the most important thing about going to school in the first place, with Learning a distant second. These are the people that we are entrusting our children to five days a week. The Board of Education? Should be called the Board of I can’t See Where I am Going Because I Got my Head Up My Butt.
DRAG the BEST students down to the level of the dumbest so they can’t function and have to have commies tell them how and when to wipe their ass. Nobody can get ahead in this BS school situation. You don’t have to put forth any effort to make good grades, you get them because your enrolled but never show up. We in trouble people wake up.
No, they should further lower the standards so “F” students -instead of the current “D” level- regularly make the “HONOR ROLE”!
Apparently the school district doesn’t recognize that it is THEIR fault that so few minorities qualify for the advanced studies. And I am tired of this “equity” idea – where everyone has an equal OUTCOME instead of an equal OPPORTUNITY….
So to be fair, punish your best students. Perfect liberal thinking
Boston school officials need to stop eating beans, as the resultant gas is going to their empty brain cavities instead of being exhausted!
The stats show that “453 students received invitations to the program, 143 students applied to the program and 116 were enrolled in the advanced classes” and that “Public Schools are 80% Black and Hispanic while the program has 70% White or Asian students.” What it does not say is what the numbers are that go along with those percentages. How many of the 453 were black, white, Hispanic or Asian? Same question for the other sets?