Racial differences in intelligence are uncomfortable topic, but people who ignore them do harmful things in the name of "equity".
What was the Kurt Vonnegut story where everybody had to carry/wear handicaps?
Racing to embrace the lowest common denominator.
this is the pursuit of mediocrity, not excellence.
This is a race to the bottom in public education. Illiteracy is demeaning to minorities. The solution is to make sure EVERY CHILD IS ILLITERATE regardless of skin color. That is “equity.”
Isn’t DeSantis talking about eliminating AP classes in Florida?
To be fair they should eliminate football and basketball.
all will be equal at the lowest denominator.
except for the elite.
Classic socialism/communism. Spreading misery equally. Make everybody poor - except for the ‘elites’, of course. /s
And thus they remove a great leg up for poor kids. A school with a good honors program can give a kid a chance to take AP tests and get a year’s worth of college credit before they get out of high school, thus reducing their potential college costs, and make it easier for them to work and go to school at the same time.
Inequality is the result of inequality
Racial differences in intelligence are uncomfortable topic...
Interestingly, I was having a conversation Wednesday with a former student who is now a teacher herself. She told me how frustrating it is for her to have to teach to the slowest kid in the class, knowing that the smart ones are going to be bored to death because things move so slowly.
Least Common Denominator
The Black community has problems it needs to address culturally and white liberals claiming things like timeliness, delayed gratification or the protestant work ethic are hallmarks of white privilege don’t care about Blacks, particularly in urban areas, with chaotic lives and a consequential lack of self discipline robbing themselves and their next generations of opportunity.
Not everyone is a gifted student but not challenging the gifted students robs them of growth opportunities as well. By the time they reach high school, students should have been exposed to eight years of similar educational experience and opportunity. Lowest common denominator education is not the answer and focus on the social fads of the day rather than concrete learning is not the way to educate a successful people.
When I was a kid in parochial schools, the teachers would give me extra work, just to keep me from being bored in the class. I worked at my own pace. I never changed classrooms or had a different teacher, but I was able to go faster than the class without making the other students uncomfortable. I never minded the extra work, because I was hungry for more than the regular curriculum in many subjects, particularly math and reading.
There was no need to separate me from the class, but I was happy that they saw fit to give me more advanced work.
The classrooms today could never get away with that, because there’s no discipline for the cut ups. The whole class suffers.
Liberal logic: The only way to make it fair to stupid kids is to hold back the smart ones.
The bright students will breeze through and become bored. However, the students who aren’t so bright will have trouble with learning the curriculum.
Not too worry, however, they will be passed to the next grade with acceptable grades in the name of equity regardless of their accomplishing the tasks. A win/win for everyone, eh? They will all get a diploma.
As this idea catches on we will see not so bright brain surgeons coming out of med school.
Stop complaining about the “free” education.
Your neighbors are paying for it.
If you don’t like it, pay for your children’s education yourselves.
Many homeschoolers are excelling on their own without ever stepping into a school.
I know self-taught homeschoolers who killed it on the SAT and graduated college with honors.
My tagline sums this up
Get your kids out of Libby schools