Barrington, Rhode Island Parents Irate At School Board For Removing Honors Classes Due To 'Equity'

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Originally Posted by Sheepie2000

This isn't equity. This is equality. This is why equity is what we should strive for in schools. Equality treats them all the same whereas equity addresses the various needs so that everyone can achieve their best.

You have the terminology backwards. Equity is about equal outcomes, not treating people equally. Not about achieving there best, but about ensuring everyone's outcome is no better than the lowest, least competent, laziest person. It's like the Democrats economic plan of trickle-up poverty. They don't want to help the poorest in society achieve more-they want to tear the hard working and successful people down to the level of the lowest in society.

It's an incredibly destructive, short-sighted move. We need leaders in our future-political, technological, manufacturing, medicine, etc. Instead of teaching the best and brightest to be able to fulfil those needs, we are stunting their intellectual growth, and ensure that they contribute no more to society than your lowest janitor or DEI hire (and at least the janitor contributes something to society). They are ensuring their own destruction and that of society.

This is beyond Communism, "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". This is a deliberate destruction of ability. Which is the ultimate end of Communism as well...but they aren't always smart enough to recognize it. The people destroying our education industry and crippling our children's minds, do.

But it's import to remember that this deliberate, and what they are trying to accomplish. You have to accept that the damage done to this nation is deliberate, not simple incompetence. No one, not even Joe Biden and the Democrat party is this incompetent.

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Originally Posted by victimofGM

I sometimes wonder if school boards have become like an HOA board. In some HOA boards it seems those who seek out these positions do so with an agenda and not always for the benefit of the community.

You should take this insight and apply it to legislators, judges, Presidents, governors, mayors, city councillors, and bureaucrats. The same is true for most of them.

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Originally Posted by michiganmoon

No.

The problem is different people have different definitions.

As a teacher I sit in on this BS and people will outright say "it is not equitable that more whites make advanced classes than blacks or Hispanics." Never any word that technically whites are underrepresented due to Asian success.

Then the teachers start talking about what they can do to promote equity in that regard or in other words get equal outcomes by race.

We had a diversity and inclusion training that literally taught us equality is bad and equity is good. Equality was shown as having unequal outcomes by race and equity had equal outcomes by race.

Why are Liberals so focused on RACE? It's not the color of a child's skin that determines their future success in life, it's their parents' culture that's the problem!! Asians and Jewish kids succeed in academics because their parents care and make them do their homework properly. If the grades aren't there, then there's no playtime.

I am an American born Chinese woman, and growing up, it mattered a lot that we did well in school. In fact, many times my mother told me that "my job as her child was to go to school and do it well. And if I goofed off, then I was to get a job and pay her rent." Meanwhile, I worked in the hospitality industry in Boston for many years, and what I saw was that black and Hispanic coworkers didn't care about their children doing well in school. Success for them was someone doing well in professional sports or in music. Other than that, getting a union job or if not, then acquiring a Section 8 voucher and only working enough to not lose it.