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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Is it nature or is it nurture though? And if it is nurture ie.e the environment, who bears the brunt of the blame for creating that environment that fertilizes failure? Irrefutably, not the Republican party. But, never the less, they keep voting democrat. The democrat party is masterful at manipulating their slaves.
RE: Sorry if this might offend, but look at the IQ’s of various races.
What about EQ ?
>>So those with actual intellegece are dragged down by those without.
This has been going on for decades now. Public School curriculum has been dumbed down, which is why we have so many dumb people.
talk about crabs a in a bucket mentality let all the little sub-IQ's sit in the back with a remedial assistant that will answer all their questions about stuff they should already know, so as not to disrupt/slow down the real class
after a couple weeks they'll simply quit showing up... nature is cruel but fair
“Boston schools are nearly 80% Black and Hispanic.” Well, that doesn’t sound very diverse to me. There are too few white students. I demand diversity initiatives right now to increase the number of white students in Boston schools.
and which political party created the environment that took those fathers away? And, honestly, after the bullshit like this that we are constantly subjected to, am I supposed to suddenly care if black people live in a good or a bad environment? I feel like they would just as soon kill me as look at me because I’m white and voted for Donald Trump but I did NOTHING to foster their resentment-it was always the democrat party and the hoodoo voodoo that they do to you know who.
First schools were champions of advanced learning. Told us how wonderful they were.
Now they want to abolish them. Tell us how bad they are.
Science and the Bell Curve meets BLM.
OMG! This has to be part of the Great Reset - eliminate advanced schooling AND schooling for capital economy kids. Make ‘em all dumb, so they will only be able to handle manual labor jobs.
Communists never heard or imagined a though they didn’t want to control...
Thought police are a major addition to all state, federal, city, & county government agencies since the communists gained full control of the nation...
I always thought it was up to the individual to qualify for honors programs, thus an incentive to do your best. What they are doing is prejudiced to remove the students that actually want an education.
Hard to believe this was the cradle of America
Equity = equal outcomes, regardless of ability or choices to do better
They don’t want to “look white”....
“Biden Says Black & Hispanic People Don’t Know How to Use Internet”
Says it all
Gotta keep everyone as stupid as those who couldn’t make it
into those classes.
Those parents of gifted children who can will now send their child to a private school. This will further degrade the quality of student in the public schools and lead to an overall drop in the performance of the public schools. This may well be deserved, given the curriculum and agenda of public schools.
That’s what I did with my daughter and she is all the better for it. A better quality student body and an emphasis on learning rather than social agenda.
School vouchers for all!!
Did you mean to write equality instead of equity?
Ooops my bad...
noun Equity
1.
the quality of being fair and impartial.
“equity of treatment”.
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