[jeannineinsd]

This article at Hot Air is commenting on an article originally published at the San Diego Union which can be read here https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2022-04-10/san-diegos-largest-high-school-quietly-eliminated-several-honors-courses-parents-are-outraged or here https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-diego-union-tribune-sunday/20220410/281500754784095

I am appalled by this. The principal is using her position to forward her personal politics, by taking away opportunities from students.

For a student to be competitive for admission at one of the two local state colleges, San Diego State or University of California at San Diego, the student needs a least a 4.0 GPA. To get a high GPA, students take classes that score 5 on a 4 point scale, the honors or Advanced Placement classes. This principal isn't yet removing the AP classes, but she is removing most of the honors classes.

[Sans-Culotte]

I love to watch the left do stupid things which basically shout that minority students aren’t very smart.

[MercyFlush]

Massive ARTH ping!

[throwthebumsout]

Dumbing down the schools for “equity.” No child left ahead.

[ConservativeInPA]

That’s the ticket. Just dumb down all the courses and all the students. Homeschool your kids today and put a lazy ass government teacher out of work tomorrow.

[Exit148]

And where do they want their doctors? From the bottom half of the class?

[FormerFRLurker]

So let me get this straight: If honors classes don't have enough minority students, they'll be canceled for everyone, including those few black and Hispanic students? Talk about taking your ball and going home!

[markman46]

this straight up BS from this principle, this is my HS i graduated from in 1973. this is shameful

[dennisw]

• News about Michelle Irwin, The Principal Of San Diego’s Largest …

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  San Diego’s largest high school quietly eliminated several honors courses. Parents are outraged

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  5 hours ago · The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday that Patrick Henry High School principal Michelle Irwin “has been cutting several honors, advanced and gifted education courses”

[Carl Vehse]

San Diego High School Principal Michelle Irwin and the associated school board should be indicted, tried, and convicted of racist abuse of children. It’s too bad the sentences for this convicted leftist rabble could not include being publicly flogged.

[PapaBear3625]

Equity: “We can’t improve black performance, so instead we are going to cripple white people”.

[thegagline]

In the name of equity, the basketball hoops should be lowered by 5 feet.

[moovova]

All three of the high school’s honor students are probably upset.

[oil_dude]

Lets make everyone equally stupid!

[catnipman]

the kind of high school that one would expect to find in the world of harrison bergeron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

https://www.eriesd.org/cms/lib/PA01001942/Centricity/Domain/2098/Harrison%20Bergeron%20Text.pdf

[sphinx]

So:honors classes are associated with various academic “benefits” such as better attendance, fewer suspensions, better graduation rates, and an edge in college admissions.

BENEFITS????!!!!

I guess better attendance and graduation rates, good behavior, and superior academic performance are just more goodies handed out by the privilege fairy.

[rhubarbk]

EFF Equity

[Governor Dinwiddie]

There are students of all races in the honors classes. Eliminating the honors classes hurts minorities in the honors classes, perhaps hurts them most of all. No honor student is going to accuse a fellow honor student of "acting white" (or "acting yellow").

[GOPJ]

Equity - democrats putting their thumbs on the scale to cheat for student too lazy or stupid to win an honor’s seat.

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.

[windsorknot]

Equity = Universal Mediocrity.

[Trillian]

Democrats calling blacks and mexicans stupid again.