Posted on 11/17/2014 9:20:03 AM PST by rightistight
Every white student should transfer out. The DoE just destroyed another school system.
This one requires a third fp.
Local school district sort of has AP classes which are essentially regular classes with AP participants having more different and extra work.
The real smart ones are sent to the local community college.
The kids in the class still have to take the test. It sucks if they can’t do the work, or hold back the rest of the class’s progress. Are 4’s and 5’s on the AP test next to go because high grades are racist?
Remember, the purpose of these tests isn’t to get meaningless credentials. Rather, it’s to educate relatively talented students to the point where they can place some of the introductory college courses and move on.
Honors and High Honors have been removed from my son’s Middle School report cards.
Remember the days when Honor Roll names were posted in the school office or lobby ?
No more..
OK, well when I was in school 30 years ago, AP classes were designed to give you a head start at college. If you paid to take the exam and passed it, you received a credit for that class.
But isn’t that what they’re proposing? Making the qualifying tests easier?
Amazing!
Remember, these are the folks whose view of the world rejects objective reality.
Governor Christy could ride this issue into the White House!
How much non-elected ARROGANCE do we need?
I wish they had had tracking when I was in high school. The last 2 years were a total waste of time because of all the people there who did not want to learn and who did nothing but disrupt classes. And there were very few African American students at my high school. The majority of these dolts were white because the majority of the school was white.
I am a big believer in segregated (by grades and interest) classes in high school. Otherwise what is the point of being there? It would be better if a third of the students were not even there as they actively did not want to be and wanted everyone to know it. They were only there because they were required by law to be there. Most only disrupted classes and caused trouble.
Compulsory public education should end at age 16. There is no point in forcing people to be in public school who do not want to be there and are not the slightest bit interested in learning.
No, not yet. As I read it, they are talking about getting into the AP class easier for kids who aren’t on the high-achieving college tracks. Perhaps a dozen years ago, my kids were in some AP classes. They told me, especially in math, that it was common for the parents to browbeat the teachers to let their kids in (even though they were mediocre students). They almost always soon flunked out.
This is similar. “Tracking” is so racist.
Tracking doesn’t change the difficulty of the courses or the text. Leave that to Common Core. /S
Dumbing down.
Shouldn’t white parents sue for this racist reverse discrimination? White students must not be allowed to achieve high standards because they’re white?
Of course nobody can just be honest about the situation; black families place less importance on education, period. You *CANNOT* force equal outcomes, maybe they should address the “why” and not punish those that value education.
When this kind of stupidity comes from the Federal government you can see the writing on the wall...civilization unravels. They don’t see “Americans”, just whites/blacks/women/gays - identity politics with everything. I wish black communities would stop being black communities - it promotes racism, on both sides.
Wow, just wait until colleges get wind of this.
They have. Witness ‘developmental’ courses for the unprepared.
IOW, that school system’s administrators are saying “It is not possible for non-white students to meet white standards, therefore it is unfair to enforce white standards”.
Last time I looked, they were not white standards, they were simply standards. Tell me again who the racists in society are?
AP classes are racist now... okay, I guess a person who can’t spell CAT should join the AP class if he is Amish. I guess there’s another reason to homeschool.
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