So in other words the DOE thinks that all black people are stupid so we have to make the classes easier for them? How many of them can get in A in a regular class? If you don’t easily get an A in a regular class, you have no business taking AP classes, don’t care what color you are.
I wonder if Asians are included in that class of “minority student” who need this DoE crutch. Methinks not.
It’s just liberals applying the Gruber Principle once again.
Once again liberalism places political correctness above what is best for the students.
I don’t think a person’s race has anything to do with either intelligence or stupidity.
That being said, if someone is raised in a culture that promotes entitlement and not studying, then that mental state is what prevents someone from getting good grades and getting into AP.
If someone want to take AP classes then hey have normally prepared for it their entire lives and will do well.
If I was a minority there, I’d be really offended.
In a related story the NBA will lower the rim, because high rims discriminate against white men who cannot jump, Native Americans and Eskimos. Talks continue about shifting the three point line to the right to accommodate more long-shots attempts from the left.
and when little TravonRashaniquashamalamaSharkeesa gets to college??? i still remember the ballers walking around campus with remedial english and arithmetic books who had absolutely NO business being there other than shooting 3pointers...
So, put more blacks in the class. If they flunk, they flunk, at least you have the “right” number in the class.
Government money is a drug, Get off the drug and they can’t do this to you.
THE AP PROGRAM RECOMMENDS 15 STUDENTS MAX IN EACH AP CLASS AND OF THOSE, THE MOST ACADEMICALLY PREPARED STUDENTS.
The DoE needs to be defunded, destaffed, and deleted. If anyone had to answer the question “What does the DoE do?” the answer would inevitably be, “A place for education Ph.D’s go to get paid 100K+ a year, present a seminar in a Title 1 school once a year, and retire with a huge pension.”
Do any of them actually work with students? No.
And then we wonder why our students test so badly against other countries, NOT! A capable student is materially harmed when in a class where the instructor has to spend excessive time to bring the low-capability student to the minimum standard. This school was trying to match instruction to the student capability and the Dept.of Education has just told them to quit.
So, when the next comparison between various country’s students shows US Students ranking low, remember this incident as a POLICY of the Department of Education!
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.
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.
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.
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.