"Equity" is the goal of public schools today, it seems. Equity as a goal aims to make every student's outcomes the same as every other student's outcomes. It is claimed or implied that this is fair and just.
A charter school leader in South Bronx NY disagrees. He says it denies the role of individuality because all students bring their own abilities, weaknesses, talents, choices to bear on their school experience.
Of course it does. Race does not lock every student of color into failure, or even every white student into success.
What all students of every color need is a sense of agency, the knowledge that they can defy rather than confirm low expectation. They need to be empowered rather than resigned to defeat. William Allen is one who defied victimhood because he was empowered.
from NYPost
(cont'd tomorrow)
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