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| Bezerkeley HS to drop science labs |
| 2010-01-01 |
| 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. Yeah, the way to close that gap is to lower white scores. You betcha. Paul Gibson, an alternate parent What is 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. For white students or attended by white students? This is blatant racism. 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. I continue to believe the greatest threat to the national security of the US is the NEA and its fellow travelers. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #6 Bingo. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-01-01 21:23 |
| #5 I know. I had friends from SoCal that went to St. Mary's |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-01 21:20 |
| #4 Not so much Frank. Ain't many and not much better. You'd be thinking of moving. I've lived in Oakland and as soon as my last is safely in college, I might move back. It is beautiful. But there's only a couple of (and I mean two) places west of the tunnels to send your kids for school. And getting in is a crap shoot. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-01-01 21:17 |
| #3 "remember, you all unique, just like everyone else" Berkeley High's School Governance Council - be interesting to see the ideological diversity there, huh? Ima thinkrn Catholic school if I lived there |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-01 19:38 |
| #2 "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" Translation: The Lefties at Berzerkley think black and Latino children are too stupid to learn anything useful or difficult. The Left is full of bigoted bastards. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-01 19:28 |
| #1 He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous. With equality comes responsibility. Without responsibility it simply becomes privilege where one receives without accord to merit. Equality of opportunity was what the entire civil rights movement of the middle part of the 20th Century was about. It has been hijacked into the neo-communists/socialist equality of outcome regardless of merit. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-01-01 19:22 |