Posted on 04/12/2022 11:27:11 AM PDT by jeannineinsd
Michelle Irwin, the principal of San Diego’s largest high school, has decided to cut many of the school’s honors classes. In an email sent to parents, Irwin explained she was doing this for equity.
Irwin cut the courses for equity reasons, according to an email she wrote to parents. She told parents she wanted to move away from “stratifying” classes and remove the stigma from non-honors courses. She has also cited racial disparities in honors course enrollment — a problem that is mirrored nationwide…
Latino students made up 54 percent of California’s public school students in 2017 but they represented only 43 percent of students who were enrolled in at least one AP course, according to the U.S. Civil Rights Data Collection. Black students made up 6 percent of the state’s enrollment but just 4 percent of students who were enrolled in at least one AP course.
A similar trend is happening at Patrick Henry, according to limited data presented by Irwin at a school council meeting earlier this year. White and Vietnamese students made up a disproportionately higher percentage of enrollment in Honors American Literature and Honors U.S. History, while Latino students were disproportionately lower, according to Irwin’s data.
The underrepresentation is a problem because enrollment in advanced courses is associated with a host of academic benefits, such as better attendance, fewer suspensions and higher graduation rates. Participation and success in honors and AP courses are also key factors considered in college admissions.
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Yes—and now that UC has gone “test blind” (no SATs considered at all), the honors and AP classes are now MORE important for admission, not less.
This high school is doing a disservice from the kids who are applying to UC admission next year—and UC applications have now doubled (due to the lack of SAT), meaning their admit rates have been halved. Many 4.5 GPA applicants—thousands of them!—have been rejected or waitlisted at many UC campuses.
Huge mistake on the part of this high school.
Regards,
It's the same with "defunding" the police - blue city politicians needed to cut budgets and blamed fictitious "racist" cops.
” enrollment in advanced courses is associated with a host of academic benefits, such as better attendance, fewer suspensions and higher graduation rates.”
I think they are confused by the concept of cause and effect.
patrick Henry has changed a lot from when i was there. yes there were Ap clases, kids came for a lot of feeder schools.
My granddaughter accumulated 22 AP credits at her catholic girl’s high school. She skated senior year and now is a second-year midshipman at the USNA
Along with a measurable portion of their family tree.
"The grim reality..." you write about is a reality our party in opposition for the past 50yrs has not had the courage to face.
If that doesn't change within the next two elections the damage would seem irreversible, at least in polite terms.
Yes, as someone posted earlier in the thread, “No child left ahead”.
I don't know if this is a possibility for students in San Diego, but if it is, then those students who know that AP courses are a good thing will be able to find where they need to go to attend them.
When my dad was transferred to CA for a 2 year tour coming from Fairfax County, VA in the early ‘70’s, I could only be in honors, advanced or a year ahead in classes because the school systems there sucked so badly. It hasn’t gotten any better since. Advanced classes in CA public schools are basically for normals. That state’s school systems are full of tards.
I attended a high school back in the late sixties with an 80% black student body. Most of my teachers were black. They were great teachers with no political agendas. Honors students were duly recognized. Notions like “equity” and “CRT” weren’t even around. That was then.
Pathetic response from minority groups.....
I am beyond appalled. This is deliberate crushing of a young person’s attributes.
Do people want the medic at the BOTTOM of the class to do their surgery??? On themselves??? Their kids???
Does anyone want the lowest achievement kid in the high school to do their IRS taxes???? Build their house? Build their car?
This isn’t just destroying MERIT for hard work & superior application of one’s better attributes, but it rewards lazy/indolent//combative/ and other such attitudes which NEVER ENRICH the society as a whole.
There are MANY things each of us cannot do well-—or at all...I cannot make pie crust from scratch, but I am very good at accounting. There are other things I cannot do-—but I refuse to pretend that it leads me to NOT acquire other skills.
HOWEVER-—destroying incentive to do what you CAN DO WELL is EDUCATIONAL TREASON from the “teaching” community.
This attitude needs to be PURGED from educational institutions & other ‘sources’ of leadership.
I would be raising all kinds of HELL at that high school if I had a kid there.
What are parents in San Diego thinking????
EXACTLY
No need to eliminate anything. Just make it the policy of the high school that all students will receive the same grade, regardless of how little or how hard they work. In one bold move, the high school will eliminate the “discrimination” that comes with colleges ranking students by performance. Thus, no one gets an “unfair” advantage. Of course, it will kill any incentive to learn or to work, but the school is already on that path by eliminating honors courses.
Meanwhile—Drastically reducing the ‘able to work’ persons whose taxes support that welfare.
Why do demonrats keep telling us that white supremacy is bad, and then turn around and tell us minorities are inferior?
That should actually be brought up as a point/comparison..
12% of the poopulation is going to drag us all down...
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