Here she is, with the parents/useful idiots.
Posted on 06/26/2021 8:26:29 AM PDT by grundle
Math is hard. Organic Chemistry is very hard, and is used as a screen for medical school. We don’t want engineers and doctors who are not really smart
The school district my kids did this starting in about 1988. No more GATE (gifted and talented education) classes. No more putting the kids into groups based on ability. A neighbor whose son was in the same grade as my son liked it because her son wasn’t in the top math group. Her son was more athletic than mine and, of course, it was okay to still separate kids by athletic ability.
When my oldest son had been in first grade, the teacher gave the children work at the grade level they were able to work at - from first to third. Seven years later when my daughter was in first grade, the teacher was told she could only teach first grade level material. She refused. She asked how she could do that when she had kids starting first grade barely knowing their letters and numbers and others reading “chapter books” and already proficient in addition and subtraction. They didn’t fire her, but made her life pretty miserable.
Marxism is all about envy.
Rather than allow anyone to excel, all must be dragged down (except the children of elites, who will go to separate special schools).
I urge everyone to read Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”.
“Diversity and inclusion” equals dumb-dumb substandard schooling (NOT education) for all!!!!
We all need REAL schools that teach the classics, STEM, modern foreign languages, and Americanism!!!!! Christian and Jewish schools that also include prayer and Liturgy are a plus!
Here she is, with the parents/useful idiots.
The insanity continues.... Hope parents in these school districts fight back! Trying to make all of the kids dumb and dumber on the Democratic scale.
Also I wonder the people who are making these decisions where are their kids going to school?
Yes.....don’t work hard and get educated to accomplish something worth while in your life.....that’s RACIST!!.... Just be an idiot with your hand out demanding freebies!
The media doesn’t even question the blantant lies. The majority of gifted and honors students here are children of Asian and Indian immigrants with a smattering of white kids. And the parents would recall the school board if they ever floated such a stupid proposal.
Dumbing down and stifling the bright kids is not the solution to minority underachievement.
Contrast with NCLB, which not only dealt with under-performers, but also provided that advanced students had advanced opportunities. In Vancouver, these advanced students are being left behind.
And turning to the Law of Unintended Consequences, placing the gifted with the mainstream will do a number on the curve. They are going to have to deal with that too. How will little L-A (Ladasha for those in Rio Linda) feel when Sally Whitebread always has her hand up to answer a question and aces every test.
As a side note; shortly after this there was a brouhaha about a young Asian girl who had graduated from the local HS as the Valedictorian. She got to university and realized that she was not prepared for the work at the college level. She came to a school board meeting to tell the school board that they needed to look into their Advanced Placement classes as they were not preparing students for college. The SB told her that she had obviously not done her work and was unprepared for college. This was the Valedictorian of the school If she was unprepared, it was because the school had not prepared her.
Later, the School Board admitted that their Advanced Placement classes were no different in subject matter or difficulty than a regular class. They just had students in them who actually behaved and wanted to study.
Deserve the job? Qualified for it? Have you been to the US Postal service counters lately?
Old humorist Mark Russell joke:
Don't try to tell me America isn't still the land of opportunity. Take the guy who arrived here yesterday morning, from Baghdad, doesn't speak a word of English, and today he is your cab driver in Manhattan.
Hope U.S. public schools drop honors courses, too.
Then maybe more parents will put their kids into private schools.
With all due respect if the parents haven't already pulled their kids out of public schools by now they're past the point of reason and removing honors courses won't do anything except make it harder for their children to get an actual education. It's not the kid's fault his/her parents are flaming libs.
White liberals continue to insult blacks and blacks not only take it, they applaud it.
Funny how that White Supremacy math leaves out the fact that we use Arabic rather than Roman numerals, that we wouldn’t have the concept of 0 without Eastern mathematicians, and the ancient Mayans were predicting eclipses before the Europeans.
An awful lot of minorities contributed to this alleged tool of white supremacy.
The folks who stand to lose the most from this “reform” are actually high-achieving black and Hispanic students. Bad enough that all bright children are being held back to make the duller students feel better about themselves (”Harrison Bergeron” was not supposed to be a how-to manual!). But many high-achieving students are bullied by their peers. For these students honors and AP classes are an escape hatch to surround themselves with fellow high achievers and physically separate themselves from the bullies. This is true for high achievers of all races, but especially for minority students who get accused of “acting white” on top of the usual “nerd” insults.
So much fun, being the unpaid tutor. Also fun, doing all the work for slackers.
In college I ended up with an incompetent partner on an assignment. I ended up redoing all his work and telling the professor, you can grade him on my work, but please please don’t grade me on his.
Try doing that in a woke K-12 and see how the scour falls upon you.
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