Boston Public Schools officials said they were canceling advanced learning classes out of concern that the classes served disproportionate racial groups.
The program known as Advanced Work Classes was intended to serve high-performing students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Students are encouraged to study their subjects in a deeper and non-traditional manner.
School officials became concerned when a report showed that the program was disproportionately serving white students, and underserving black and Hispanic students.
Their solution is not to raise up the minority students, but rather to drag down the white students. That makes sense to no one ever.
The district analysis found that more than 70% of the students in the program were white or Asian, while nearly 80% of the students in the district are Hispanic or black.
“This is just not acceptable,” said School Committee member Lorna Rivera in a school meeting in January. “I’ve never heard these statistics before, and I’m very very disturbed by them.”
Rivera cited one finding at one school that showed the program included 60% white fourth-graders though a majority of third graders are black or Hispanic.
Superintendent Brenda Cassellius told WGBH News on Friday that they would put the program on hiatus over the racial findings.
“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius said. “There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”
Cassellius said students already enrolled in the program could continue, but it would be phased out for fourth and fifth grades.
OPINION
This is complete idiocy. Do a better job with the minority children. There are foreign language problems, lack of parental attention, and so on. That doesn’t mean white and Asian children should be kept back. That’s bigotry — against whites and Asians.
The social elements holding back minorities are not due to racism.
The school officials are obviously using Marxist disparate impact as a guideline.
This is the dumbing down of whites and Asians.
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It’s an unfortunate situation but the worst thing to do is to discriminate against anyone on account of race, ethnicity or color. Here, White and Asian kids are the victims of discrimination. What’s next — close down a college if it doesn’t have the right racial mix?/
Liberals have a very perverted Idea of Government. Even Karl Marx realized that some people had more talent than others and provided for to each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs. Today’s Liberals actually think its the role of Government, and Government has the ability, to make everyone equal. It’s not just redistribution of wealth through unfair taxation, but keeping people who would naturally excel back. Liberals truly support the dumbing down of America to “THEIR” Level.
America was built on the concept of Equality under the Law. A level playing field guaranteed by Government, where Government only stepped in to stop abuse by the rich and powerful. Today the Government is creating the abuse by picking winners and losers based on contributions to the Representative Class. In other words, America has the Best Government Money Can Buy, and the safeguards in the Constitution are simply ignored.
The Liberals of the Boston Public School System actually think that by keeping smart people stupid they are some kind of Justice Warrior protecting not so smart people from the really smart people. It has been the really smart people who innovate and made America wealthy enough for Liberals to survive being stupid. Liberals are so stupid that they trying to destroy the very thing at allows them to exist in a modern world; smart people who become wealthy and pay exorbitant taxes to support Liberal Stupidity.
It was called Excel when I was a lil’ schoolboy and there were specialty classes, no all day Excel.
I’m certain that is long gone in the interest of equality of results for all comrades of the unity hive.
Egalitarianism doesn’t work and utopia is not on the menu from comrade Karl the 19th century German bum.
Humans are not a learning animal as we are still grappling with proven failure ideologies from almost two centuries ago.
Marxism is a proven success at burning it all down.
to each according to his ability. the socialist are desperately trying to cancel out whites and Asians but they can not see they are also canceling out the black and brown kids. hopefully there are some advanced courses the kids who qualify could take on line to help them expand their horizons. I am thankful i never lived in such a bigoted area. what are the chances of parents attending school board meetings to address this nasty policy ? once agai proves that the Democrats are the party of the KKK.