Instead Of Getting Nonwhite Students Up To Speed For Honors Classes, ‘Equity’-Obsessed Schools Give Up On Kids Entirely

As if it were learning losses Children were not sufficiently harmed by Covid lockdowns in the past several years. Left-wing elites are able to take another approach. “solution” To solve a problem, eliminate honors classes

The Wall Street Journal recently published this article reported This article highlights the controversy in several Southern California districts regarding their decision to drop honors courses at high schools. This is the latest example of the left’s attempts to enforce. “equity” Children of all skin colours and backgrounds will experience lower standards and less learning.

Standard Degrading

The Journal interviewed the superintendent at the Culver city unified school district outside Los Angeles. Quoc Trn, superintendent of the Culver City Unified Schools District outside Los Angeles, described honors classes in this manner:

Parents believe academic excellence should not be manipulated for the sake social justice. … [But] It was quite shocking when teachers saw their AP enrollments and discovered that there were no black or brown students. They felt obligated.

Und wenn Lehrer “felt obligated to do something,” What was that? “something” entail? Giving students of color the encouragement and motivation they might need to be successful in challenging classes. Students of color should not be denied tutoring and support in order to succeed. No, “doing something,” This meant dropping honors classes completely in this instance.

Pedro Frigola was a parent of two students at Culver City High School. He explained why he didn’t support the move. “I was born in Cuba, and it doesn’t sound good when people are trying to achieve equal outcomes for everyone.”

All Students are Harmful

As someone who enrolled in every possible honors and Advanced Placement class offered in his high school, I can state that ending honors classes won’t help student achievement — it will only degrade students’ performance and discipline. I can speak from experience in saying that students who do not feel challenged in the classroom and who feel confined by a slower pace of instruction will often resort to playing pranks and other unruly behavior out of sheer boredom — a condition that helps neither them nor their classmates.

It is not meant to denigrate anyone who needs additional instruction or encouragement to synthesize lessons and master curriculum. It is important to remember that it It is To denigrate the woke mentality that is present in pedagogy, which now considers success four-letter words.

There are only two possibilities for why there is no enrollment of minority students in advanced classes, according to the Culver city superintendent. Either teachers in Culver City and other similar districts haven’t given minority students the tools they need — whether instruction, motivation, or a combination of the two — to enroll in, and succeed at, honors and other advanced classes. Students of African American or Hispanic descent can’t learn the same as their peers from other races.

The second statement is not true. The success of inner-city charter schools — where nonwhite students can far