'Equity' has left K-12 students behind

Yahoo ^ | June 15, 2021 | Samuel Kim

[tbw2]

I am amazed Yahoo reported this.

Grievance politics seems to permeate every aspect of our society these days — and it has a serious cost.

Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi have emerged as contemporary televangelists. The deceptively-named concept of “anti-racism” is the new orthodoxy in our universities, and racial politics have also entered our public schools.

Classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are banned from some high school curricula, only to be replaced by woke bestsellers.

As a Washington Examiner editorial chronicled, K-12 students have been subjected to “restorative justice” circles and forced to self-identify as “privileged” or “oppressed.” The in-vogue focus on “equity,” not equality, has even led California to dismantle its math program, abandoning the long-standing pathway of advanced courses and any notion of “gifted” students.

The woke fever in K-12 education has robbed students of financial resources. “Equity” initiatives are not cheap. In March, the Fairfax County Public Schools agreed to pay the NYC Leadership Academy for “Leadership Development Training.” And according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, the Montgomery County School District awarded $450,000 to the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium to conduct an “anti-racist system audit.”

The over-emphasis on racial politics has also allowed administrators to overlook systemic issues in American education. For one thing, students are under-performing in basic reading assessments. American Enterprise Institute fellow Ian Rowe noted in a 2020 piece, “Consider that in 2019, only one-third of all 8th-grade students scored ‘Proficient’ on the National Assessment of Progress in reading.”

[tbw2]

‘Equity’ has left K-12 students behind
https://news.yahoo.com/equity-left-k-12-students-225200734.html

[Chode]

when did equal-opportunity become equal-equity?

[tbw2]

Within the past 5 years. Equity is communism - equal outcomes. But it is actually unfairly racist, because you have to discriminate against the privileged and give preference to the oppressed to make it fair.

[Chode]

a fine for doing bad, is a tax

a tax for doing good, is a fine

[BuffaloJack]

Equity is socialist bullsnot.
The Constitution states that everyone is born equal. It says nothing about staying that way through life.

[cgbg]

The elites want to keep the masses as stupid as possible—then they will be easier to control with propaganda.

[Hambone 1934]

It makes the black dems feel better about being morons if everybody is miserable.......

[Verginius Rufus]

If only one-third of the students are "proficient," the obvious solution is to lower the score needed to be counted as "proficient."

I would have thought that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been banned many years ago, because of Mark Twain's effort to reproduce the language actually spoken at that time in Missouri and Arkansas.