How about just be less no matter what
Boston halts advanced school program over ‘equity’ concerns after study finds it has too many ‘white and Asian’ students
Public schools in Boston, Massachusetts are suspending new enrollment in an advanced study program citing concerns over “inequities” that supposedly emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to be more “antiracist.”
Fourth-graders hoping to get into the Advanced Work Classes (AWC) program are out of luck, after Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius called for a one-year hiatus for the program this week. The district’s website now says “admission information will be available during the winter of 2021.”
“There's been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius told WGBH, the local public radio, on Friday. “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.”
We’re doing this to ourselves. “A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity…” https://t.co/KjAZ2vTijZ
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) February 26, 2021
https://www.rt.com/usa/516733-boston-schools-racial-equity/