> It was an enjoyable experience because my students wanted to be there. <
I had something like that in my teaching schedule. It was my honors science classes. Kids specifically selected those classes. And if they didn’t do well, or if they misbehaved, they were moved down to the matching mainstream class.
Those honors classes worked well, and I enjoyed teaching them. So of course the school board eliminated all the honors classes. Their student makeup did not reflect the makeup of the school as a whole.
Woke-ism strikes again.
Of course it didn't. The distribution of IQ isn't uniform. The top performers are a narrow subset of each racial/ethnic group. There is a self-selection bias in college courses that helped my classroom composition vs a compulsory K-12 environment. A similar situation exists at my place of employment. We hire on merit and that makes life easier when trying to meet customer requirements. Even with "diversity" targets, we're still selecting the best of the best to be employees.