And of course, it is sublime cruelty to forcibly detain young men and women with IQs of 85 or less in what amount to prison conditions until age 18, define “failure” as inability to master Algebra II, and restrain their natural affinities while claiming that it’s for their own good.
Inevitably, females get pregnant and males get violent. What else would you expect?
And it’s not racial, per se (although accurate ability measurement is very important).
I went to an all white high school with 468 kids on my class, 10% of whom (at least) were in what were called “non-regents” classes and the boys fought and stole and the girls got knocked up just like you would expect.
Now, make a school with a 12-year academic program where not 10% if the “students” are like that, but 95+% are, hire and fire administrators and teachers if they fail to “leave no child behind”, label the vast majority of the inmates (oops I mean students) failures, implicitly if not explicitly, and then you have what we have now.
I went to a mix of all-white and bussed-in blacks from across the district. White bread administration with inner city discipline issues. Arguably the worst high school in the nation at the time. A teacher named Luann Johnson wrote about her experiences there, it became the famous movie “Dangerous Minds” with Michelle Pfeiffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlmont_High_School
I think we should simply have vouchers, and the kids that can study & get ahead can use what’s left of their voucher money on college. We constrain bright kids to be bullied by the @$$#0/e jocks who are never going anywhere after high school, all so the schools can collect their money. Useless.