[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.

[Salvavida]

The parents of the honor students need to meet and deliver an ultimatum. Then pull their kids when it is refused.

[Vision]

Commies.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Decisions are now made on three criteria. On merit. On race-gender ratios. On politics. Which is the basis for this decision?

[olivia3boys]

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.

[alexander_busek]

There wasn't enough equity in the distribution of seats in the lifeboats of the Titanic - so now the captain says that all the lifeboats have to be sunk!

Regards,

[T.B. Yoits]

They'll claim it's for "equity" because they actual truth that they can't hire enough talented teachers would affect the municipal bond ratings.

It's the same with "defunding" the police - blue city politicians needed to cut budgets and blamed fictitious "racist" cops.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I grew up in a decent city that for some reason had no AP courses in high school. The few students in the know, went to a local junior college to get their AP credits.

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.

[mikey_hates_everything]

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.

[ridesthemiles]

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????

[Trailerpark Badass]

12% of the poopulation is going to drag us all down...

[stylin19a]

bucket of crabs...

[stylin19a]

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.

The math seems funny...but what does 2017 state stats have to do with this particular high school ?

[LizzieD]

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.