To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes

[Anonymous]

A group of parents stepped to the lectern Tuesday night at a school board meeting in this middle-class, Los Angeles-area city to push back against a racial-equity initiative. The high school, they argued, should reinstate honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latino students.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-increase-equity-school-districts-eliminate-honors-classes-d5985dee

[Anonymous]

Interesting. APS just added honors (intensified) classes to middle school.

[Anonymous]

I can’t wait for them to do this with sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait for them to do this with sports.

What? White quotas on football and basketball teams? Or Black quotas on field hockey?

[Anonymous]

For years, all FCPS MS students were automagically enrolled in
honors courses with few exceptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait for them to do this with sports.

What? White quotas on football and basketball teams? Or Black quotas on field hockey?

Well we don’t need quotas. There just shouldn’t be any performance based accelerated teams. Why can’t any kid play power forward in high school. No cuts; just more teams randomly assigned.

And we should probably get rid of grades. Although, that work has started already.

Probably could see about getting rid of salaries too since everyone learns the same thing in the same way, no need to reward people with more money based on their performance.

And everyone should be able to go to med school too regardless of scores because we won’t have them. Just make sure you don’t have grades there either or any competency evaluations.

[Anonymous]

Thread headline is misleading.

Should say, "To Increase Stupidity..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait for them to do this with sports.

What? White quotas on football and basketball teams? Or Black quotas on field hockey?

Asian quotas everywhere.

[Anonymous]

MCPS effectively does this by putting everyone in honors classes, which then become on-level classes. Total joke.

[Anonymous]

Already a thread.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1113755.page

[Anonymous]

This is happening in FCPS. Check out the pilot for elementary school math called E3. Our school is piloting it and they've effectively eliminated the advanced math option (where they teach the curriculum a year ahead and kids take the SOL a year ahead). Instead they do "extensions" for any kid that needs it for a particular concept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is happening in FCPS. Check out the pilot for elementary school math called E3. Our school is piloting it and they've effectively eliminated the advanced math option (where they teach the curriculum a year ahead and kids take the SOL a year ahead). Instead they do "extensions" for any kid that needs it for a particular concept.

Yep, just another equity-based approach with the intent of reducing acceleration and performance gaps. VMPI lives on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS effectively does this by putting everyone in honors classes, which then become on-level classes. Total joke.

While the majority of kids at our W school take honors because they are capable of honors, my child does not. And he is not alone in his on-level classes. I don’t know why people like to perpetuate these myths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is happening in FCPS. Check out the pilot for elementary school math called E3. Our school is piloting it and they've effectively eliminated the advanced math option (where they teach the curriculum a year ahead and kids take the SOL a year ahead). Instead they do "extensions" for any kid that needs it for a particular concept.

+1. Although the parents who know what's up will put their kids in outside enrichment or get tutors to make up for the watered down program, and these kids will in turn pass advanced on the SOL. FCPS will then claim E3 works great. Everyone should be watching this closely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is happening in FCPS. Check out the pilot for elementary school math called E3. Our school is piloting it and they've effectively eliminated the advanced math option (where they teach the curriculum a year ahead and kids take the SOL a year ahead). Instead they do "extensions" for any kid that needs it for a particular concept.

which grades at which school?