Amazing. Obvioulsly the remaining parents that care at the high school will pull their kids out and property values will go down.
Dr. Witherspoon said, “In our 125-year history one of the things that would have to concern all of us is that if you measure it by standardized tests, students of color have not enjoyed the same success overall that the white kids have enjoyed at this school.”
It really shows when nearly 100% of the BLACKS VOTE FOR THE OBOMINATION!
BLACKS have the SAME BOOKS.
BLACKS have the SAME ACCESS for HELP and STILL
BLACKS CHOOSE TO FAIL!
“just keep lowering the standards...”
“Administrators have taken steps recently to expand mixed-level classes to provide more opportunity for minority students to be exposed to honors-level work.”
It makes NO SENSE AT ALL
EXCEPT
to DEPRIVE WHITES from GETTING AHEAD.
They want to DUMB DOWN WHITES to the PACE of those that are DUMB and STUPID.
This is the kind of kill the goose and get the last egg now approach that we’ll get more of on a national level if the liberal sunami materializes.
Another remarked, “To make the argument that this is going to be of great benefit to the higher-achieving students is not a common-sense argument.”
THANK YOU!
And therein lies the problem with government, in a nutshell: keep throwing resources where they are almost guaranteed to do very little good, just so some socialist can feel good about himself. Meanwhile, good students, who may actually one day return something worthwhile to society, are neglected.
We’ve been dealing with this at my 11 year old 6th grade twin daughters’ private school.
One of my twins is gifted and bright in every area.
My other twin is special needs. She is gifted in math, but she is slow at reading and she is not great at writing.
They are both get bombarded with lots of homework. My gifted daughter is really having trouble keeping up.
I don’t mind that my gifted daughter is given lots of homework. She’ll eventually be able to figure out how to handle everything, and it’s good for her to learn how to work hard because so far everything has been easy for her.
However, my special needs daughter doesn’t need the pressure. She performs at grade level (in everything but math), but not above. I don’t want her to be overwhelmed by homework. It’s not even really going to help her. Reading out loud to me is about the main thing that would help her, and she doesn’t have time to do that. She also needs to have a life. She’s wants to play sports, and that’s a very good thing for her.
In elementary school, the private school had a program for dyslexic students and that’s why we picked the school. Now, in middle school they have just abandoned the dyslexic students.
What really irritates me is that my daughter just can’t keep up with the amount of work that is given. She’s not fast enough. The homework grades are not great because she can’t complete the work. However, she still is managing to pull As on tests. What’s more important: finishing homework or doing well on tests? I thought the purpose of homework was to prepare them for tests.
I’m beginning to wonder if we need to put my daughter back in public school. However, there are so many other issues in public school (misbehaving kids, too large, etc).
I hate forcing all kids to perform at the same level. Some kids just can’t.
Oh by all means, let’s go ahead and tether the brightest, most motivated students to the slowest and least motivated, and see how that works out, especially for math and the hard sciences!! Yes, let’s ensure mediocrity rules the day, and no one achieves any more than anyone else — dragging down the whole. That is what this entire argument is about.
As the government schools continue to wrestle with the political correctness of lowest common denominator, parents who love their children need to make other arrangements. What caring parent would send her child to a school like this one?
I spent two years at ETHS (almost 40 years ago). I cannot imagine how the place can function with “blended” classes.
At ETHS, the difference between higher level students (e.g., those taking advanced honors courses) and lower level students (e.g., many of whom are functionally illiterate) is more extreme than many can imagine.
Even the far lefties will protest if they think their kids will be at a disadvantage in getting into a top university. With property taxes so high, the private school alternative is only practical for a small minority of families.
If the School Superintendent continues on this path, there will be an exodus of upper middle class (Black and White) families to adjoining suburbs.
Bringing black scores up is hard.
Crippling white students scores to bring them down is easier.
This playing around with mixing achievers and non-achievers makes no sense, no matter what color, either.
I live in a ‘white-collar, mostly white town. Years ago, when my kids were in grade school, someone got the bright idea to align the A students with the C students, and the B students with the D/F students. The idea was to bring up the level of the lower grade students. It wasn’t a popular idea and after a while it was quietly dropped. I guess that if it worked the way it was supposed to it would have stayed.
How about looking for the root cause of the underachievers and do something about that!!