AP & Honors classes to be partly decided by skin color, not intelligence?

Wow.

Lowest common denominator

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“Therefore, the new work of American public schools is to develop systems to address disparate outcomes.”

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Let that sink in for a while.

Just FYI. Todd Starnes is probably the biggest "fake news" columnist at Fox. He consistently writes inaccurate stories, makes them overly dramatic, and too often only presents one side of the story without much effort put into the other side.

He took a social media post some mother some months back about her son's school, and ran with the story as it was fact, when it wasn't. If he had attempted to get the other side of the story, like a professional, then that would have been avoided.

Anyways, this article is ridiculous:

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School: AP and Honors classes will be decided by skin color, not intelligence

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Why would AP classes be decided by intelligence? They are usually, or almost always based on achievement, and intelligence is an important part of that, but not the sole part. In other words, his title implies that one's IQ is the standard to get into an AP class. Gifted services and special education are pretty much the only time those are used in school. So that's a strange way to title it.

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“Through our collective work, advanced classes such as AP and Honors will have proportional representation,” read the letter. “Proportional representation is 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.

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And here we go again. He posts a picture of the alleged letter:



Not only does it look like it could have been created by the parent, it's odd the parent went to Todd Starnes and not local.

But that I find to be the biggest red flag are the racial quotas in relation to the student population:

Virginia School Quality Report for John Handley High School

So with 13.1% African Americans enrolled, they are actually going to make their quota (12%) smaller than the enrollment. And the only group they are going to make larger is Hispanic? Then again why would they even make there quotas since it's actually not that far from their proportion of student population (46% white; 30% Hispanic; 13% AA; 2% Asian; 1% American Indian; 7% two or more races).

ETA: It's a vision statement reflecting the districts demographic profile, and racial quotas were deemed impermissible by SCOTUS.

I took AP/GT classes and my classes were mostly white with maybe a black or two and a hispanic sprinkled in

It's IQ.

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When you can't defend the content, attack the source.

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It's Todd Starnes and a parent v. the word of the school. And when Todd Starnes reported on a story that was a parent v. School last, it was shown that his report was factually inaccurate.

So the source is definitely important, especially since there is no other source or anyone of the 1200+ students' parents confirming the story.

I mean isn't it odd this parent started with Starnes? Isn't it also odd that the snapshot of the letter doesn't show any official letterhead, signature, etc. that would at least me it look like it's an official letter from the school.

Kinda makes this story seem like BS, right?

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AP courses are open to anybody choosing to enroll. College Board has very strict rules about turning students away. College Board's motives are financial and they will not let high school counselors get in their way. Honors courses would have to be dumbed down to accommodate students, white, black, green, or purple, if they're not smart enough to be in the class.

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In my school district you had to test your way into it for History/Social Studies, Math, and Science. Then for English it was a bit different. Your English track was decided before 3rd grade in Elementary School with a test you took. Those who scored highest were put in the GT track, which is what I ended up in, then AP English for those who didn't score high enough for GT but higher than most kids in the student population