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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It’s our POLITICIANS who are dragging us down. More rope, trees and balls are required at this point.
bucket of crabs...
In Seattle’s “honor system” transit system, they stopped going after free riders because minorities were being “unfairly targeted” - which means, of course, that more minorities were not paying their fares. Now no one is paying (why should they?) and reduced revenue threatens the whole system. So you “adjust” the laws to coddle the lowest common denominator, and the system falls apart.
This is the same as schools dropping honors programs. Adjust the whole system to coddle the non-performers and you will degrade the whole system. Too bad these “educators” are such idiots.
In my opinion, those statistics don't have anything to do with that particular high school.
“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.”
Basically, the honors courses and classes were discontinued in the early 1970-s to now in many California schools.
Our oldest son thrived with the honor courses he had in the 6th grade when we moved here.
The next year, they cancelled the programs, as punishment for us voting for prop 13.
Some of us got retired math/science teachers and paid music teachers to hold after school classes for these children.
My wife had not returned to work as an RN after becoming a mother. While we lived in Sacramento, she was a docent at the Crocker Art Gallery. So, she and a couple of teachers and other parents arranged for all kids to go visit the Crocker gallery and similar venues in SF.
The schools stopped allowing the kids to take the time off and would not lease buses for these trips after the first year.
It’s the same with “defunding” the police - blue city politicians needed to cut budgets and blamed fictitious “racist” cops.”
The Blue Cities’s next target will be the teacher unions. By the end of this decade, there will probably be zero qualified teachers in so called Zoom classes. There will be guards not teachers in blue city former schools.
Local gangs will provide the guards, aka former students.
Then, the schools in Blue cities will adopt the Oregone system where students can get a high school diploma and not be able to read, write nor do basic math.
“it’s intentionally insulting to black and brown students who earned their way into honors programs.”
It is another reality, re who are the real racists in America are!
I would like to extend a ‘welcome to the Republican Party’ shout out for all parents of Asian, White, Jewish, Chinese Indian, Vietnamese, German, French, Swedish, Ukrainian and English students - and to parents of black and brown students who have EARNED their place in honors programs.
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.”
Basically Oregone has done what you suggested:
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says illegal immigrants are “the heart and soul of our culture and the backbone of our economy”
Then this!
Oregon students shouldn’t have to prove they can write or do math to get a diploma, lawmakers decide!
The Oregonian ^ | Jun 16, 2021 | Betsy Hammond
Posted on 6/21/2021, 4:16:01 PM by george76
Students in the class of 2021 did not have to prove they could write or do math at a basic level to earn their diplomas. A bill headed to Gov. Kate Brown would prohibit any such requirement at least until 2027.A bill to prohibit Oregon schools from requiring students to show they can read, write and do math at a basic high school level is headed to Gov. Kate Brown after lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday. (The bill was sign by the governor, and it is now in effect in Oregone!)
The idea is to hit pause on the requirements, in place since 2009 but already suspended during the pandemic, at least until the class of 2024 gets their diplomas and for Oregon to thoughtfully reexamine its graduation requirements in the meantime. A report recommending what the new standards should be is due to the Legislature and Oregon Board of Education by September 2022.
But since Oregon has long insisted it would not impose new graduation requirements on students who have already begun high school, new requirements would not take effect until the class of 2027 at the very earliest. So at least five more classes could be expected to graduate without needing to demonstrate roughly 10th grade level proficiency in math and writing.
The decision to remove the skills requirement was largely but not entirely a party-line one, with Democrats staunchly opposing the proficiency rules and Republicans decrying what they see as a lowering of academic standards.
A spokesperson for Brown told The Oregonian/OregonLive Wednesday she has yet to decide whether she will sign the bill, veto it or allow it to become law without her signature. (She proudly signed the bill!)
Oregone, unlike other states, did not require students to pass a particular standardized test or any test at all. Students could show their ability to use English and do math via about five different tests or by completing an in-depth classroom project judged by their own teachers. In reality, most schools relied primarily on standardized tests and most students easily passed them.
But demonstrating proficiency proved most challenging for students who learned English as a second language, students with disabilities and students of color.
Officials on the Oregon Board of Education, when they enacted the “essential skills” graduation requirement more than a decade ago, said they hoped no student would be denied a diploma for lacking the skills but that schools would step up and help juniors and seniors who hadn’t mastered enough English or math to do so. Many high schools created special math and writing workshop classes for seniors who needed to demonstrate those skills to get their diplomas.
The bill calls on the diverse committee studying graduation requirements to come up with a recommendation “with the goal of ensuring that the processes and outcomes related to the requirements for high school diplomas are equitable, accessible and inclusive.”
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It is simple, Eliminating schools as places to learn and making them serve as day care centers all day. Beginning with breakfast, morning breaks, lunch, afternoon breaks and a dinner before going home. Maybe midnight basketball.
Teachers and their unions will still be paid. Any so called classes will be conducted by supposedly graduates, and the highly paid teachers will monitor those former classes on Zoom.
More Gardeners, janitors and other custodial care at the former schools will require more union workers, managers and whatevers!
So our taxes will go up for the above B$!
https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/virginia-teacher-says-making-kids-behave-is-white-supremacy/
Not surprised. We were in San Jose. Pretty place at the time, but horrible school systems. Then there were the Blacks and Chicanos at each other constantly—the one “good” thing about being white there back then. I’ve been back on business trips since then and it’s not even beautiful anymore, just run down and trashy. I’d never want to live there but old friends I made while there who I’ve visited don’t know any better and their kids are so much worse off than they realize. Mostly they think it’s great because of the weather. Now ALL the houses are between one and two million. No way I’d ever pay that much to live there or subject my kids to that environment.
My wife and I are in our 80’s and prefer to be carried out of our home feet first. We retrofitted our home for aging people the last 10 years.
So when my wife got a hip replacement about 5 weeks ago, the home care RN/PT only had a few minor suggestions to make.
We have good neighbors and live in a great place.
Our grown sons and their families are about 45 minutes away.
Only one GK is still in college. He has one more year in engineering. He will make a resume on a piece of paper with his SAT scores besides his degree for interviews or to get interviews.
A grand daughter was graduated by a premium E. Coast pre med and RN university on the East coast last summer. She has an excellent RN job with a good hospital. She will probably never come back to California due to the B$ she got from the Cali school for being too white. She applied to out of state schools and was accepted by every one she applied to. She got a $25k per year scholarship at the college she went to.
Florida is attracting a lot of people like her parents. She
could get a job there anytime she wanted to.
Their parents, uncles and us helped pay for their private high schools and then college costs. So, there is no massive college loan debts for them.
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