Posted on 02/27/2021 1:02:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A program at Boston Public Schools (BPS) for high-performing 4th, 5th, and 6th graders will be suspended for a year while administrators figure out how to reduce the number of whites and Asians in the selective program.
Boston schools are nearly 80 percent black and Hispanic while the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, has 70 percent white and Asian enrollment. Obviously, the reason for that is plain-as-day racism… or something.
Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the program for new students next year.
“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius told GBH News. “There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”
New students will be admitted in the fourth grade by standards to be determined at the school level, according to a BPS spokesman.
There will be no new students admitted in the fifth or sixth grades, the spokesman said, but those already in advanced work will be allowed to continue.
Maybe there’s racism in the way the kids were chosen for the advanced learning classes?
The program was open to all students in the Boston Public Schools who took a test known as Terra Nova in the third grade and received a high score. Those students were placed in a lottery conducted by the central administration office, and lottery winners received letters inviting them to apply to the program. Last fall, 453 students received invitations, 143 students applied and 116 enrolled this year, officials said.
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If they look hard enough, I’m sure they’ll find racism in the lottery.
The fallback position when playing the numbers game is always racism. There can be no other rational explanation. And if there is, it’s because the person pointing out the rational explanation is racist.
A rational person might look at the 453 students receiving invitations and ask why more blacks and Hispanics didn’t even apply. Not all of those 453 students could have been white and Asian. Why did black and Hispanic kids not want to take the advanced classes?
Public schools are stupid anyway...and not working...and they do cement inequalities.
Solution is school choice for lower income people. And empowering Catholic and alternative education models in inner cities.
Does the Left think they are helping blacks by humiliating them like this?
So those with actual intellegece are dragged down by those without. Common sense dictates that this is wrong but yet we are expected to see this as a good thing.
"Harrison Bergeron" is a dystopian science-fiction short story by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in October 1961. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the story was republished in the author's Welcome to the Monkey House collection in 1968.
Synopsis
In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.
Full text of "Harrison Bergeron
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Some things about living still weren't quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen- year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.......
Just change the curriculum. Change “Advanced Learning” to Advanced Basketball or Advanced Rap. Then no problem.
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
MLK. Jr.
Once again the age old dream that everyone should be equal, it never has nor will it ever work. There may be some exceptions such as being equal under the law as well as some other issues but this is about as far as it will go and even if you stand on your head it will not change a thing.
They also took away the program for blacks that made it. Shear lunacy.
the logical conclusion of equality of opportunity. Not only reward the below average but punish the above average
1984
Sorry if this might offend, but look at the IQ’s of various races.
and how far away are we from this dystopian science fiction? Pretty far maybe but only because we have completely blown past that level of insanity. It’s quite disgusting.
How many in the different groups were raised with Fathers in the family?
Hint: What continent are the countries with the lowest IQs located in?
https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
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