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| School letter says AP and Honors classes will be decided by race |
| 2017-08-11 |
[FOXNEWS] A Virginia high school sent a disturbing letter to parents and students announcing they would be selecting students for Advanced Placement and honors classes at least partly based on skin color, a concerned parent told Fox News. Martin Luther King, Jr. must be turning over in his grave. A parent forwarded me a copy of the letter sent from John Handley High School in Winchester. "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." The letter went on to explain that public schools across the country "continue to see outcomes that are disproportionate by race and social class." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 ...A Little Known Fact(TM) about Handley - it is the only privately endowed public high school in the nation. (Also my wife's alma mater.) Let's just say they play by different rules. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-08-11 18:36 |
| #9 I spent about 10 days out in Winchester this summer. Suffice to say the area didn't strike me as a hotbed of academic excellence. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2017-08-11 18:21 |
| #8 Another alternative view. Praeger University Ad. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-11 12:27 |
| #7 On one hand it is nice when they show their cards (and their entire hand is comprised of race cards). Some school administrators should be unemployed at the first opportunity. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-08-11 09:59 |
| #6 The smartest baboon... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-08-11 09:28 |
| #5 Just when you thought our system couldn't get even more broken.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-11 08:59 |
| #4 Well, that's just recognizing the reality - poor white boys don't have any chance at college anyways. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-11 08:50 |
| #3 Affirmative Action advanced placement and honors. Who should be surprised. That's the way it works in today's 'real world' of employment. Why shouldn't academia reflect the current reality ? [sarc tag if needed] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-08-11 07:57 |
| #2 Why not do it by results in class? Are they going to use the Just one drop rule? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-08-11 07:12 |
| #1 They also gonna assign grades by race? Why bother with classes? More efficient to award diplomas, with predetermined class rankings by race, when 5 years old. |
| Posted by: Gomez Slesh2786 2017-08-11 07:09 |