{"id":1655435,"date":"2022-09-23T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655435"},"modified":"2022-09-23T16:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:20:42","slug":"california-school-with-social-justice-academy-has-19-math-proficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-with-social-justice-academy-has-19-math-proficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"California School With \u2018Social Justice Academy\u2019 Has 19% Math Proficiency"},"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%2Fcalifornia-school-with-social-justice-academy-has-19-math-proficiency%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=1655435&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--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\">California<\/a> high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/education\">school<\/a> with a \u201cSocial Justice Academy\u201d is suffering in more traditional subjects like math, where students are getting dismal scores.<\/p>\n<p>San Leandro High School\u2019s Social Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slusd.us\/slhs\/academics\/our-academies\/\">Academy<\/a> is a three-year \u201crigorous\u201d and \u201ccareer-themed\u201d program for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders, according to the academy\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slsja.org\/about-sja\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of three academy programs offered at the high school, and students must apply for admission.<\/p>\n<p>The academy\u2019s \u201cspecially designed curriculum\u201d focuses on critical pedagogy, social justice, ethnic studies, gender studies, intersectionality, and social and emotional skill development among other things.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum teaches students to \u201cchallenge and criticize power, oppression, capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, and xenophobia on the internal, interpersonal, institutional, and ideological levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, learning about these issues is not enough, the academy says. During their senior year, academy students are required to become activists. They must develop and run campaigns, which can be global in scope.<\/p>\n<p>The academy also says it encourages students to reimagine themselves and their communities \u201coutside of the master narrative\u201d and values \u201cradical healing\u201d and \u201ctransformative solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The academy started in 2006, but the founders focused on things like multiculturalism and lacked the \u201cholistic humanization and critical consciousness\u201d the students needed, the academy\u2019s website says.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some core curriculum academics are suffering at the high school.<\/p>\n<p>San Leandro High School has a 19% math proficiency rate and 21% science proficiency rate, well below California\u2019s average of 30% proficiency in both math and science, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/california\/districts\/san-leandro-unified-school-district\/san-leandro-high-school-3322\">according<\/a> to U.S. News and World Report. The school\u2019s reading proficiency rate is 57%, also below the state average.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/california\/districts\/san-leandro-unified-school-district\/san-leandro-high-school-3322\">vast majority<\/a>, 92%, of San Leandro High School\u2019s students are minorities, and about 57% are considered economically disadvantaged.<\/p>\n<p>The high school serves more than 2,600 students, and, despite their low math scores, most still go on to graduate. The high school has a graduation rate of about 92%, above the 2019 national <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/fastfacts\/display.asp?id=805\">average<\/a> of 86%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis school\u2019s mission is based entirely on critical race theory and critical gender theory,\u201d Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/09\/14\/dismantling-capitalism-california-school-district-sponsors-activist-training-facility\/\">told<\/a> the Daily Caller News Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a school wants to train activists for particular ideological causes like dismantling capitalism or challenging cisheteropatriarchy, they shouldn\u2019t be doing it on the public dime,\u201d Sanzi added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>California is not the only place where school districts have adopted social justice-inspired curricula. Across the country, parents have complained about their young children learning ultra-progressive concepts in school including racial themes and gender identity. In many cases, parents have simply pulled their children out of public school in favor of alternatives like homeschooling.<\/p>\n<p>In Rhode Island, a mom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/parents-not-welcome-rhode-island-mom-sues-school-district-over-secret-meetings\">sued<\/a> her child\u2019s school district after saying it had barred parents from secret meetings of the taxpayer-funded Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, public school enrollment has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/public-school-enrollment-continues-to-stagnate\/2022\/08\">plummeted<\/a> 1.3 million students since before the pandemic began. California\u2019s enrollment is down 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Also earlier this month, national test results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/national-test-scores-math-reading-pandemic.html\">showed<\/a> that the pandemic wiped out two decades of progress in math and reading among 9-year-olds. The drop affected children from all races and income levels but was particularly devastating for students who tended to struggle more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California high school with a \u201cSocial Justice Academy\u201d is suffering in more traditional subjects like math, where students are getting dismal scores. San Leandro High School\u2019s Social Justice Academy is a three-year \u201crigorous\u201d and \u201ccareer-themed\u201d program for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders, according to the academy\u2019s website. 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