Boston Schools Suspend Advanced Classes For Not Being Diverse Enough
This is how you stupify a nation. We should always be looking to better the youth of our nation regardless of ethnicity. But apparently, in Boston, they no longer want to better their best and brightest students because not enough minorities are applying for the advanced classes. So instead of seeing what they can do to better the education of minorities, they are punishing students that should be in advanced courses.
"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.”
"A Boston Public Schools spokesman told GBH that new students will still be admitted into the advanced program in fourth grade, but that admittance standards would be determined by the schools. Meanwhile, no new fifth or sixth graders will be admitted, though those who are already in the program will remain."
Students have to pass a test and then even if they pass have to be picked from a lottery in order to ensure that it is a fair process. Boston Public Schools should see this as a sign that they are not reaching students of color, but instead, they are worried that they will appear racist for teaching advanced classes to White and Asian gifted children. This is the worst possible reaction to their findings. But I guess being "woke" is more important to them than bettering our society and bettering the gifted youth in Boston.