DUMBING DOWN: San Diego's largest high school has been cutting honors classes due to 'equity' and to avoid the 'stigma' of non-honors courses.
The principal of San Diego’s largest high school has been cutting honors classes due to “equity” concerns and to avoid the “stigma” attached to non-honors courses, leading to outrage among parents in the diverse community the high school serves.reported Sunday that Patrick Henry High School principal Michelle Irwin “has been cutting several honors, advanced and gifted education courses” without the “knowledge or input” of the school district’s parents.
The controversy has rattled Patrick Henry, a racially diverse school in the middle-class neighborhood of San Carlos that is also San Diego’s largest high school, with more than 2,500 students.The idea of cutting advanced classes for “equity” is familiar in California, where Berkeley High School consideredscience lab classes more than a decade ago in an attempt to close the gap in achievement between black and white students.
A proposal in San Francisco to eliminate merit-based admissions to Lowell High School to reduce the disproportionate number of Asian-American students helped provoke theJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host ofon Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the recent e-book,
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