A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the program for new students next year..........................

A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.

School Committee member Lorna Rivera said at a January meeting that she was disturbed by the findings, noting that nearly 60 percent of fourth graders in the program at the Ohrenberger school in West Roxbury are white even though most third graders enrolled at the school are Black and Hispanic.

"This is just not acceptable," Rivera said at a recent school committee meeting. "I've never heard these statistics before, and I'm very very disturbed by them."



https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021...ng-classes

That's is racism folks.

Will they also eliminate basketball, football and detention for racial inequality?

Maybe these kids parents should try to raise them to be, you know, smarter?

(03-01-2021 10:09 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Maybe these kids parents should try to raise them to be, you know, smarter?

That's the school's job. Oh. And to feed them too.

(03-01-2021 10:06 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the program for new students next year..........................

A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.

School Committee member Lorna Rivera said at a January meeting that she was disturbed by the findings, noting that nearly 60 percent of fourth graders in the program at the Ohrenberger school in West Roxbury are white even though most third graders enrolled at the school are Black and Hispanic.

"This is just not acceptable," Rivera said at a recent school committee meeting. "I've never heard these statistics before, and I'm very very disturbed by them."



https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021...ng-classes

So (in short) they plan on lowering the bar to the lowest common denominator. Rather than raise the bar from the bottom up, they will instead stunt those who are smarter and hold them back.

Great idea.........

Trump - Make America Great Again
Biden - America, The Race to the Bottom

(03-01-2021 10:25 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(03-01-2021 10:06 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the program for new students next year..........................

A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.

School Committee member Lorna Rivera said at a January meeting that she was disturbed by the findings, noting that nearly 60 percent of fourth graders in the program at the Ohrenberger school in West Roxbury are white even though most third graders enrolled at the school are Black and Hispanic.

"This is just not acceptable," Rivera said at a recent school committee meeting. "I've never heard these statistics before, and I'm very very disturbed by them."



https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021...ng-classes

So (in short) they plan on lowering the bar to the lowest common denominator. Rather than raise the bar from the bottom up, they will instead stunt those who are smarter and hold them back.

Great idea.........

Trump - Make America Great Again
Biden - America, The Race to the Bottom

So, do they only test the white and Asian kids for acceptance into the program? Yeah, no. The fact that some black and Hispanic kids qualify show that it’s possible for them based on individual ability.

I guess the issue is that things like math, as we have learned, are racist.

(03-01-2021 10:30 AM)banker Wrote:  So, do they only test the white and Asian kids for acceptance into the program? Yeah, no. The fact that some black and Hispanic kids qualify show that it’s possible for them based on individual ability.

I guess the issue is that things like math, as we have learned, are racist.

1 + 1 = 7 (or 9, or 3, or 1,289)