But that's racisssss... Or sumpin'

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From Boston radio station and NPR afilliate WGBH:

Citing Racial Inequities, Boston Public Schools Suspend New Advanced Learning Classes
A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the program for new students next year.

"There's been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address," Cassellius told GBH News. "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."

New students will be admitted in the fourth grade by standards to be determined at the school level, according to a BPS spokesman.

NOTE: pandemic = smoke screen = diversion = look!!!  a squirrel!!!

And the real reason:

A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.

Heh - talk about an inconvenient truth. The selection process was about as unbiased as you can get - an exam:

The program was open to all students in the Boston Public Schools who took a test known as Terra Nova in the third grade and received a high score. Those students were placed in a lottery conducted by the central administration office, and lottery winners received letters inviting them to apply to the program. Last fall, 453 students received invitations, 143 students applied and 116 enrolled this year, officials said.

Does not fit the narrative.  Must be obliterated.

Actually, what this does expose and it exposes it very plainly is that the latest educational fads simply do not work. When there is discipline in the classroom.  When there are expectations for the students to do their work and to study and learn, you will get good results. Regardless of race.  Regardless of gender.

The people who buy into these new programs are doing nothing but damaging the children in their care.  Education is simple. Dealing with a sclerotic bureaucracy is not. I would like to know the ratio of teachers to administrators in the Boston School System - I bet that it is 8:1 or worse.

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