Equal outcomes means no one can exceed at everything. To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes - WSJ
UPDATE: The WSJ article has disappeared behind a Paywall. Try this: School Districts Are Dropping Honors Classes In The Name Of Equity. I am not rewriting the post. The quotes below are from the link above.
Another WSJ article not behind a paywall.
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.
The district earlier this school year replaced the honors classes at Culver City High School with uniform courses that officials say will ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education.
Translation: No one will be permitted to be better in math than the person who can't understand fractions.
The parental pushback in Culver City mirrors resistance that has taken place in Wisconsin, Rhode Island and elsewhere in California over the last year in response to schools stripping away the honors designation on some high school classes.
I'm sure this was in either Fahrenheit 451 or one of Ayn Rand's novels (The Fountainhead?). If you know which please leave a comment.
So since no one will be allowed to be good at math, or science, or ... in high school, no one will be allowed to be good at engineering or medicine in college and beyond. That's not fair!
So don't hold out any hope that bridges will stay up, or the health care will be any good in future. That is not EQUITY. That is different people having differing abilities and getting different outcomes in life and that is NOT FAIR! Or something
Civilization was nice while it lasted.
Ayn Rand's "Anthem" is probably where this idea is most explicit, but the it also runs through "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged".
ReplyDeleteWhy Democrats fight hard against school vouchers. Destroyed public education, while sending their kids to private school.
ReplyDeleteSay hello to Harrison Bergeron while you're at it.
ReplyDeleteNever liked Vonnegut, though I haven't read that one. I found Slaughterhouse-Five to be mildly annoying. Cat's Cradle even more so.
DeleteThe best thing about Vonnegut was how the movie Back to School used him in a cameo.
DeleteThe same rigorous education that *everyone* can pass. Fractions? Who needs ‘em! We’ve got enough engineers and mathematicians, and when we need more there’s India and China.
ReplyDeleteScience as a career already has a double-plus good thought filter. Let’s empty the prisons and schools like we did the asylums and declare utopia!
I do believe the DEMOcrats think the movie "IDIOCRACY" is a GUIDE!!
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