One California high school has eliminated honors classes for ninth- and 10th-grade students. While school officials claim that the change was necessary to increase "equity," the move has angered students and parents alike.
"We really feel equity means offering opportunities to students of diverse backgrounds, not taking away opportunities for advanced education and study," one parent who opposed the change told The Wall Street Journal.
Starting this school year, Culver City High School, a public school in a middle-class suburb of Los Angles, eliminated its honors English classes for ninth- and 10th-graders. Instead, students are only able to enroll in one course called "College Prep" English. The decision, according to school administrators, came after teachers noticed that only a small number of black and Hispanic students were enrolling in Advanced Placement (A.P.) courses.
"It was very jarring when teachers looked at their AP enrollment and realized Black and brown kids were not there. They felt obligated to do something," said Quoc Tran, the district's superintendent. According to an article by The Wall Street Journal's Sara Randazzo, data presented at a school board meeting last year showed that Latino students made up 13 percent of 12th-grade A.P. English students, despite comprising 37 percent of the student body, while black students made up 14 percent of A.P. English students while comprising 15 percent of the student body.
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Sooooooooo, Black student will be deprived of AP courses because they are only 14% of AP students, but 15% of the student body. And Latinos? Their low rate of academic success diminished even further by denying them access to AP. If they have lower rates of literacy, better take all of the books out of the school library. Equity/Socialism means lowering everybody to the lowest rung of the latter. Everyone will be happy when they realize that they are all living in the same sewer.
You get what you vote for. AND, Surprise Surprise, the politicians and school administrators put their kids and their grandkids in private schools, so this does not affect them in the slightest.