Facing challenges at school (AP classes are racist)

The Raleigh News-Observer ^ | 1/29/04 | Rick Martinez

[Phantom Lord]

Chapel Hill is the hotbed of liberalism in NC. Jesse Helms suggested putting a fence around it and calling it the NC Zoo.

[Phantom Lord]

You know what to do.

[Numbers Guy]

District officials say advanced courses lead to "tracking," or grouping of students by academic ability, which can lead to high expectations and extra opportunities for gifted students. Conversely, they believe tracking can doom non-gifted pupils to low expectations and exclusion. So instead of teaching high-performing kids in accelerated courses, the board has adopted the one-class size fits all, equality-based theories behind differentiation.

Let's not just apply this theory to academics. Let's apply it to athletics as well. Is it really fair to take the best football players in the school, designate them the football team, bus them around to play in games and so forth? That sounds awfully elitist and discriminatory. Let's have a football team where all students play or let's have none at all.

[So Cal Rocket]

No Child Left Behind

No Child Gets Ahead

[Constitution Day]

The author has been on the Jerry Agar show, correct?

[NCLaw441]

You are right. I went to college and grad school there. It IS a zoo. But the girls are beautiful and available, given the high number of gay males on campus.

[cinFLA]

Let's have a football team where all students play or let's have none at all.

Let's ban football, or at least, eliminate the scoring.

[Enterprise]

Ask parents the benefits of AP classes when their child gets through in three years instead of four years. A lot easier on the pocket book. But then again, the school might like getting a fourth year of tuition out of the student. To label AP classes as racist is typically absurd, but consider the ignoramuses who are claiming it.

[Constitution Day]

NC ping!
Please FRmail me if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.

[jscd3]

While that sounds great in theory,..

That doesn't sound at all great in theory or any other way. It sounds foolish; ignorant of human nature and the realities of the human experiance

Why in the world would the author of this article feel it necessary to start it with a comment so silly?

[Phantom Lord]

can you go in and close my font tag? Thanks!

[ladylib]

Oh, boy, did you get that one right.

There have been teachers (in Texas -- home of the "Texas Miracle") who have suggested to parents of really bright students to remove them from the public schools and either try to get them into good private schools or homeschool them.

I hope no one thinks this is lost on the kids. The smart ones are getting bored and they will eventually leave public schools with this type of policy in droves.

[Phantom Lord]

Yes. Many times.

[Enterprise]

"It's hard to miss that the overwhelming majority of students enrolled in advanced courses are white and Asian."<P. I'm shocked, I tell you, just shocked!

[Constitution Day]

I don't get to listen to Jerry every day due to working late.

I've heard Martinez on there maybe twice? Thanks for the verification though.

[GiveEmDubya]

Anyone can take an AP class (provided you meet certain academic credentials), but taking the AP TEST, well...

In May, I'll be taking my 2nd & 3rd AP exams and proud of it.

[reelfoot]

Government schools are not for education anymore. Their reason for existence these days is indoctrination, sensitivity training, and self-esteem generation. Being able to compete with students from other countries can't be allowed to imping on these all-important societal goals.

[mewzilla]

Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Figgers.

[dakine]

Schools are too easy..my kid goes for 3 AP course at H.S. and then takes 2 college courses, and he isn't challenged at all..and he scored only 1300 on SAT...
H.S. is becoming more and a social setting/baby sitter...

[ladylib]

You forgot indoctrination center.