Boston Public Schools Will Suspend Advanced Classes Because Too Many Students In Them Are White Or Asian

[GURPS]

Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders will not be accepted into advanced classes in Boston for the next year because a majority of students in those classes are white or Asian.

GBH News reported that the selective program, called Advanced Work Classes, will suspend enrollment in part because of the pandemic but also because of “concerns about equity.”

The school district analyzed the demographics of the program and 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,” GBH reported.

“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Superintendent Brenda Cassellius told the outlet. “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.”

Boston Public Schools Suspend Advanced Class Enrollment Test; Say Too Many Students In Them Are White Or Asian

This article has been revised to clarify that the admission test and new enrollments have been suspended but the program is being allowed to continue. It has also been updated to include the statement from Superintendent Brenda Cassellius provided to GBH after publication of its initial report...

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[PrchJrkr]

Sounds like someone wants to create a generation on mindless, incompetent drones. If I still had children in public school, I would pull them out for private school or home schooling. This BS has got to stop. Equality of opportunity shouldn't be mistaken with a equality of outcome. Some are not as smart as others. If it breaks down to being disproportionately one race falling behind, so be it. Don't hold back the other students who want to take advantage of a free education and learn.

 

[BOP]

 

[Hijinx]

Sounds like someone wants to create a generation on mindless, incompetent drones. If I still had children in public school, I would pull them out for private school or home schooling. This BS has got to stop. Equality of opportunity shouldn't be mistaken with a equality of outcome. Some are not as smart as others. If it breaks down to being disproportionately one race falling behind, so be it. Don't hold back the other students who want to take advantage of a free education and learn.

I see only one problem with your post. It isn't intelligence holding blacks back.
Lets call it a work ethic, bad parenting and the myth that they are being picked on that they get beat into their heads from the day they are born. There are plenty of brilliant blacks like Dr,Ben Carson ,Justice Clarence Thomas and the black Doctor Joe Biden fired from his position as Surgeon General Jerome Adams. People who didn't listen to the beat down blacks give their own, they studied, they worked hard and they achieved, like any black man or woman can study work hard and achieve. Blacks with good parents who told them to pursue education.

Off the subject but germane to my post. Why do blacks elect political idiots who tell them they are right to blame the white man for all of their problems. Idiots like Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and others who belong to the Black Congressional Caucus the purpose of which is to push the very things that is holding blacks back. Black racism and ignorance.

 

[Tech]

Equity- the clipping the wings of eagles because the chicken can't fly.

 

[vraiblonde]

It's typical of Leftists to not want to raise up black children whom they have failed; instead they are holding back other kids to meet the LCD they, the Leftists, have created.

It's not just stupid black people who support this nonsense; woke white supremacist saviors are cheering it on as well. In fact they - the white supremacist Leftists - are who created it in the first place.

The white Leftists have manufactured a "black culture" over the last few decades - ghetto gangsta, violence, ignorance, drugs, and poverty. Instead of promoting the best of black people - the doctors and scientists and educated hard-working folks with real achievements - they've manufactured an audience for the pimps and drug dealers and illiterate gang members. We white devils tried to reject this negative stereotype back in the 80s when it first took hold and were told WE were the racists for not embracing "black culture".

So wait, who are the racists again?

 

[SamSpade]

Can ANYTHING be more racist than to cancel advanced classes because blacks or Hispanics are not able to do it?
See - if it were NOT a racist decision, the natural response would be - why are they NOT able to do those classes, since races are equal?
The logical, natural response would be - let's ADDRESS why blacks and Hispanics can't or are unable to succeed in them.
A RACIST response is to cancel them - give up. Give up trying to lift them up. Because bigotry says, it can't be done.

And it CAN BE DONE. You know how I know that? Because there was a time when STEM careers were so overwhelmingly male, instead of these classes being all white or Asian - they were all MALE. And it's being addressed. THAT is changing.

CANCELLING the classes is quietly saying - yeah, they're just too dumb to do it, no need in making it known. THAT is racist.

The fact that the left is always playing white savior is overwhelming evidence of their bigotry. THEY are the racists.

 

[Monello]

Why do blacks elect political idiots who tell them they are right to blame the white man for all of their problems. Idiots like Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and others who belong to the Black Congressional Caucus the purpose of which is to push the very things that is holding blacks back. Black racism and ignorance.

It's easier to blame someone else for your shortcomings. You are underachieving because of some unseen force in the universe. That absolves you from personal responsibility.

What should happen is successful blacks should be telling others what they did to succeed.

 

[vraiblonde]

The logical, natural response would be - let's ADDRESS why blacks and Hispanics can't or are unable to succeed in them.

The Leftists in our "education system" aren't going to do that because they are the ones who made it so.

They have gone so far as to encourage these kids to speak a language that isn't even proper English. Or English at all. And then we wonder why they can't perform academically and succeed in the real world...

Canceling AP classes isn't saying a certain demographic is too dumb to perform; it's saying the Leftists don't WANT these kids to perform. Any of them. Except the elite future overlords, that is, because you know damn good and well that the pricey private schools the A-list send their kids to will be teaching at a top level.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

It's typical of Bolsheviks to not want to raise up black children whom they have failed; instead they are holding back other kids to meet the LCD they, the Bolsheviks, have created.

It's not just stupid black people who support this nonsense; Bolshevik supremacist saviors are cheering it on as well. In fact they - the Bolsheviks - are who created it in the first place.

The white Bolsheviks have manufactured a "black culture" over the last few decades - ghetto gangsta, violence, ignorance, drugs, and poverty. Instead of promoting the best of black people - the doctors and scientists and educated hard-working folks with real achievements - they've manufactured an audience for the pimps and drug dealers and illiterate gang members. We white devils tried to reject this negative stereotype back in the 80s when it first took hold and were told WE were the racists for not embracing "black culture".

So wait, who are the racists again?

FIFY.

Bolsheviks are the racists. We are at war. Act accordingly.

Added: Empirical science tells us that males have a penis and females have a vagina. Bolsheviks tell us that empirical science, observation, history, reason, and Christianity are all wrong. Who do you believe?

 

[Hijinx]

It's easier to blame someone else for your shortcomings. You are underachieving because of some unseen force in the universe. That absolves you from personal responsibility.

What should happen is successful blacks should be telling others what they did to succeed.

You mean instead of calling them Uncle Tom's.