As with all public schools in progressive-run cities, education is no longer Job #1 in Madison WI. “Equity” is. The Madison Metropolitan School District is poised to scuttle its advanced honors courses in order to make the racial numbers work. Either not enough black and brown kids are doing advanced course work or too many white kids are.
“Officials called [scrapping honors classes] a pathway to becoming an anti-racist institution.”
Punishing achievement
A most-excellent report from our favorite Madison morning daily newspaper asks, “Can honors be equitable? Madison school district revisits controversial change.”
Progressivism is like rust — it never sleeps. Course work for the gifted and talented is damned as “gate-keeping knowledge in a really limited and white-washed manner,” says school board member Savion Castro, a young man with no real life accomplishments but an overweening sense of superiority informed by his own assumed victimhood.
He and a likely majority of four of the seven members instead contemplate doling out honors from within standard classes. Tellingly, WI State Journal news reporter Olivia Herken adds, “District officials did not answer questions about what students have to do to earn honors credit in standard classes.” Guesswork replaces homework!