{"id":1432719,"date":"2022-04-12T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432719"},"modified":"2022-04-12T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:31:12","slug":"san-diegos-largest-high-school-cuts-honors-classes-for-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-diegos-largest-high-school-cuts-honors-classes-for-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego&#039;s Largest High School Cuts Honors Classes for &#039;Equity&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-diegos-largest-high-school-cuts-honors-classes-for-equity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The principal of\u00a0San Diego\u2019s largest high school has been cutting honors classes due to \u201cequity\u201d concerns and to avoid the \u201cstigma\u201d attached to non-honors courses, leading to outrage among parents in the diverse community the high school serves.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>San Diego Union-Tribune<\/em> reported Sunday that Patrick Henry High School principal Michelle Irwin \u201chas been cutting several honors, advanced and gifted education courses\u201d without the \u201cknowledge or input\u201d of the school district\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Union-Tribune<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/education\/story\/2022-04-10\/san-diegos-largest-high-school-quietly-eliminated-several-honors-courses-parents-are-outraged#:~:text=Print-,San%20Diego&#039;s%20largest%20high%20school%20quietly%20eliminated%20several%20honors%20courses,parents%20speaking%20out%20against%20it.\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Irwin cut the courses for equity reasons, according to an email she wrote to parents. She told parents she wanted to move away from \u201cstratifying\u201d classes and remove the stigma from non-honors courses. She has also cited racial disparities in honors course enrollment \u2014 a problem that is mirrored nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy has rattled Patrick Henry, a racially diverse school in the middle-class neighborhood of San Carlos that is also San Diego\u2019s largest high school, with more than 2,500 students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hundreds of outraged parents have formed a private Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/parentsofphhs\">group<\/a>\u00a0devoted to fighting the school\u2019s new \u201cequity\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of cutting advanced classes for \u201cequity\u201d is familiar in California, where Berkeley High School considered <a href=\"https:\/\/eastbayexpress.com\/berkeley-high-may-cut-out-science-labs-1\/\">cutting<\/a> science lab classes more than a decade ago in an attempt to close the gap in achievement between black and white students.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal in San Francisco to eliminate merit-based admissions to Lowell High School to reduce the disproportionate number of Asian-American students helped provoke the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/15\/early-results-san-francisco-show-lead-recall-3-school-board-members\/\">recall<\/a> of three local school board members earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The principal of\u00a0San Diego\u2019s largest high school has been cutting honors classes due to \u201cequity\u201d concerns and to avoid the \u201cstigma\u201d attached to non-honors courses, leading to outrage among parents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}