Virginia explores plan to end advanced diplomas

Fox News ^ | 4/21/21 | Audrey Conklin

[AT7Saluki]

The Virginia Department of Education is taking steps to end advanced diplomas in the name of equity.

Leslie Sale, director of the Virginia Education Department's office of policy, on Tuesday announced an exploratory effort to review Virginia's diploma and graduation requirements in a live-streamed meeting with the department's Special Committee to Review the Standards of Accreditation. "These recommendations include developing measurable plans to close the persistence of achievement gaps, close opportunity gaps that disproportionately impact Black students and other students of color, diversify Virginia’s educator force, and support professional development for administrators and educators focused on culturally inclusive and responsive competencies and equity-centered practices that disrupt intentional and unintentional racism in education," Newport News Public Schools chief of staff Rashard Wright – who serves as the chair of the advisory council – said in a March statement.

[AT7Saluki]

Stands to reason that someone who can't even write a coherent sentence would be behind ditching any standards.

[alternatives?]

Everybody is equal on a chain gang.

[monkeyshine]

It was only a matter of time I guess. Didn’t see it coming I have to admit. But I guess this should have been expected once we went down the path of ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations’.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Curse the people who brought slaves to this continent.

[frank ballenger]

Everybody gets an “A” and an honor roll banquet seat and a pony. Oh, boy.

[Secret Agent Man]

socialists look at everything as a zero-sum situation

since socialists actually do not create anything new or innovate new items and products its easy to see why they believe this

one person progress is not at the expense of anothers

but viewing it as a communist, any disparity in outcome is automatically viewed as being unfairly biased

especially and only when the favored person(s) of the state do poorer than the unfavored and demonized

if the favored people do better then the socialist state touts their progress

so yes, even in sacred socialism, the state has many preconceived biases towards people and groups it adores and wants to protect and reward

[SuperLuminal]

"Everybody is equal on a chain gang."

Or the lines queued up for the ovens...

[rbg81]

Shut down all Higher Education too....because “inequity”.

Kurt Vonnegut predicted this, though not seriously, in his short story “Harrison Bergeron”.

[2banana]

It should be a law the democrats can only use affirmation action doctors, lawyers and engineers.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep. That’s what “equity” is.

[A_Former_Democrat]

As the old commercial used to say

You can’t fool mother nature

[ConservativeInPA]

These recommendations include developing measurable plans to close the persistence of achievement gaps, close opportunity gaps that disproportionately impact Black students and other students of color, diversify Virginia’s educator force, and support professional development for administrators and educators focused on culturally inclusive and responsive competencies and equity-centered practices that disrupt intentional and unintentional racism in education,"

Run. On. Sentence. F'ing. Illiterate. Racist. P.O.S.

[Responsibility2nd]

Racism. The soft bigotry of low expectations.

“Of course them people can’t learn as well as white people. We need to dumb down the standards.”

[Secret Agent Man]

yup

but remember they really only care abput equity for their pet groups and demographics

i have yet to see socialists demanding equity for whites in the nfl and nba

[Jewbacca]

Well, “1984” is real now.

As is “Animal Farm”

Might as well go for the trifecta and ad “Harrison Burgeron”.

As an aside, getting rid of merit-based-anything is classic Marxist “new man” method. This is all just a kinder, gentler, reeducation camp.

[dfwgator]

And the trees are all kept equal, by hatchet, axe and saw.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Mediocrity abhors meritocracy......

[FreedomPoster]

Harrison Bergeron and 1984 are operations manuals for the modern Left.

[Truth29]

Under the Biden sock puppet and his SJW crowd, we are going to end up with a population that cannot and don't want to do anything. They will be a perpetual underclass that will assure that any real talent will have to come from elsewhere. We talk about going back to the moon and colonizing Mars. That will be purest fantasy. I wouldn't walk across a footbridge designed and built by this Woke mob.

[ETCM]

Socialism has never been about lifting those at the bottom, but lowering everyone else, outside of the elite ruling class. This just addresses one of many facets of “wealth”; scholastic achievement. No advanced diplomas, no AP classes, no SAT tests, no grades. Pretty soon, race, sexuality, gender, creed and political party will be the only measure of social status. Just submit your intersectional social credit score.