If you’re racing to the lowest possible outcome . . .

. . . you might be a Seattle School Administrator:

Last week the Seattle School Board voted to partner with a nonprofit to change and (they hope) improve the curriculum of Washington Middle School. Unfortunately, these changes are coming at the expense of the Highly Capable Cohort (HCC), an extremely popular gifted program that lets the students who score the highest on standardized tests participate in a specialized classes. There, they study material several grade levels higher than the ordinary curriculum.

The program has historically been dominated by white and Asian students, and this hasn’t set well with some folks who want to see more diversity in advanced programs. But rather than improve access, some school leaders—including Superintendent Denise Juneau—have decided that the whole program is a form of “redlining” and are trying to kill off the whole thing, over the objections of their own customers.

19 Replies to “If you’re racing to the lowest possible outcome . . .”

  1. Another example of, you must include us and everyone, then, let’s exclude the group we just joined.

  2. Eventually it will become like the Twilight Zone episode “Examination Day”. Anyone completing the mandatory exam and scoring an IQ higher than allowed results in euthanasia.

  3. A further argument for making all education private and providing the parents with vouchers. The schools can compete for the vouchers by providing a learning environment optimally suited to the one the parents want for their kids.

  4. Social engineering is best exercised in a mentally complicit State….Nothing to see or do until all is lost…..
    Washington State is Communist… get over the truth….

  5. Your headline ia racist, because it subliminaly amplifies the racist nature of the “so-called decline” in standards because of race.

  6. The whole point of progressivism is to normalize decadence and degeneracy so that garbage can feel better about their uselessness

  7. see if I follow the logic here…
    let’s lower the standards so more people of a certain race graduate..or at least function
    ..and then give standardized tests
    ..and then create classes for where the ones that pass the tests should be

    wouldn’t it be a lot easier to just fail the ones that don’t pass?

  8. Am I ever glad that I went to a minor public school in England on a scholarship 66 years ago. I was in a group where we did 2 years inside of one year. Result I graduated school with my A levels at 17 and went on to Uni and graduated with a B.Sc at age 20.

  9. How long before the SJWs start attacking groups like Mensa for excluding people with IQs below the upper 2%? After all, Prinz Dummkopf is a genius….. isn’t he?

    Of course, this all fits in with what I encountered while I was teaching. My last department head urged me to gear my lectures to the least talented in the class. After all, everybody who came to our institution signed up with the expectation of graduating, or so I was told. Everyone, therefore, was expected to pass.

  10. yup, I was in a high achievers course in high school, and it was shut down not long after I finished high school, and the IE course in college that I took was also shut down after 4 classes finished, for the same reason, it was not inclusive enough because of it’s fast pace, and in condensed form.

    1. Yes, you’re very special, and you have colored your diploma all by yourself too. They even let your school bus leave earlier, because you were so special and not to make room for the longer bus.

      1. Hey unCOLON, besides running off at the yap, have you accomplished any thing in your miserable life?

        I’v taken about 30 college evening courses , and was at the top or near the top in every one of them except the last one

  11. Hey….it is IMPOSSIBLE to Fail a Test, Exam, course or a full Year in Alberta.

    No ZEROs – NO “F’s” All is VERBOTTEN.
    ALL Must Pass Yes…???
    Ve cannot allow any student to fail.

    “it may damage their Self Esteem”

    And then came Cell phones…..

  12. pass, fail. pass, fail. pass, fail.
    hmmmmm.
    wonder if it has to do with the FACT my high school grad class in 1964 ALL passed *for the first time ever*.
    this aint nuthin new.
    p.s. REV1318, good for you. keep at it.
    in the 70s and 80s I was
    -working full time
    -raising a family
    -fixing up a series of ‘fixer-upper’ properties (for the increase in appraisal = selling price)
    -AND taking university courses part time.
    basically 15 years of jet lag. which translated decades later into early retirement.

    I earned the right many times over long ago to bytch about leftoid parasites.

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