Equity

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Oregon's governor has bought in to this wrong-headed thinking. Law was established that high school graduation must be stripped of any requirement that the graduate be able to read, write, or do math. She claims that this policy will help students who are “black, Latino, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”  

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So now graduation from high school means essentially nothing in that state. No student will have any sense of accomplishment from completing this rite of passage. No student of color will be empowered from knowing he/she has achieved a high school education. And . . what does this do to future employers who really need workers who can read, write, do math? 

Equity as a policy is harmful to kids of every color. It's hard to believe that people of normal intelligence don't grasp this. Somehow the educational system in America has been quietly overtaken by a pernicious philosophy. 

Parents have indeed been blindsided.

from NYPost