If students aren’t passing a certain test required for them to graduate, Washington schools officials just get rid of the test.
Always needing to be ahead of the curve, Berkeley High School officials don’t like how non-white students aren’t taking science lab classes, so they’re going to get rid of the classes.
Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.
The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High’s School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley’s dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.
Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.
Science teachers were understandably horrified by the proposal. “The majority of the science department believes that this major policy decision affecting the entire student body, the faculty, and the community has been made without any notification, without a hearing,” said Mardi Sicular-Mertens, the senior member of Berkeley High School’s science department, at last week’s school board meeting.
Of course there was no notification or hearing. That would be democratic.
Also never mind that the white (and I’d assume, and asian) students are doing just fine and that there will be no replacement for these classes.
Just add this to the pile of proof that Leftism prefers to bring everyone down to a common level instead of lifting the level up.