{"id":414718,"date":"2022-03-11T05:38:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/racial-equity-warriors-are-actually-hurting-the-disadvantaged\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T05:38:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:38:34","slug":"racial-equity-warriors-are-actually-hurting-the-disadvantaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/racial-equity-warriors-are-actually-hurting-the-disadvantaged\/","title":{"rendered":"#Racial-equity warriors are actually hurting the disadvantaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25708ad4f93\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25708ad4f93\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/racial-equity-warriors-are-actually-hurting-the-disadvantaged\/#%E2%80%9CRacial-equity_warriors_are_actually_hurting_the_disadvantaged%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Racial-equity warriors are actually hurting the disadvantaged&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRacial-equity_warriors_are_actually_hurting_the_disadvantaged%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Racial-equity warriors are actually hurting the disadvantaged&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-betsy-mccaughey.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Betsy McCaughey\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-betsy-mccaughey.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-betsy-mccaughey.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-betsy-mccaughey.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-betsy-mccaughey.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-betsy-mccaughey.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Here on the home front, there\u2019s another war going on \u2014 this one against our kids\u2019 education.<\/p>\n<p>Racial-equity warriors are canceling Advanced Placement courses and eliminating honors programs all across America. In some schools, they\u2019re doing away with homework deadlines, attendance requirements and test scores. We\u2019re told these changes will make school more inclusive for underperforming black and Latino students.<\/p>\n<p>Dismantling the school meritocracy is insane. It robs students \u2014 <em>especially<\/em> kids from low-income and immigrant households \u2014 of their best chance to get ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Parents at\u00a0LaGuardia HS in Manhattan were notified last week that the school\u2019s AP Calculus course doesn\u2019t meet College Board standards.\u00a0Students taking the course to prepare for the AP Calculus exam and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly to college just got sabotaged.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, LaGuardia\u2019s principal, Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos, has been gunning for AP courses since she took the job.\u00a0Last summer,\u00a0Vasconcelos told parents that \u201cstandardized test scores reflect systemic racism rather than student achievement.\u201d\u00a0Parents knew that was nonsense and thwarted the plan.\u00a0So AP Calculus apparently got dumbed down instead.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking AP courses and exams is happening everywhere, but it\u2019s a nonsensical approach to a serious problem: the huge racial gap in student performance.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve made progress on ensuring minority students have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2021\/08\/29\/aps-equity-face-plant\/\">access to AP courses<\/a>. Ten times as many black students take AP tests as 20 years ago.\u00a0But the pass rate\u00a0is 72% for Asians, 65% for whites but only 44% for Hispanics and a terrible 32% for blacks. Our nation should be deeply concerned, but the answer is to prepare disadvantaged kids in the early grades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vasconcelos.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-21491395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vasconcelos.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vasconcelos.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>LaGuardia High School Principal Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos said that \u201cstandardized test scores reflect systemic racism rather than student achievement.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AP courses come near the end of a student\u2019s public-school experience. Attacking AP is devastating to students from all backgrounds who are counting on hard work and talent to pave their way into a competitive college.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2021\/03\/23\/standardized-testing-poor-students-sat-benefit-identify-column\/4800781001\/\">Sean-Michael Pigeon, now a Yale undergrad, says, <\/a>\u201cI grew up poor in a single-income household,\u201d without opportunities to earn credentials like studying violin, pursuing sports, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing and working as a summer intern. \u201cI could study, though.\u201d He notes, \u201cTesting and academic performance were the best way for someone like me to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet in New York City and nationwide, honors programs and accelerated math for middle schoolers and calculus in high school are on the chopping block.\u00a0The city Department of Education notified principals, \u201cRecognizing student excellence via honor rolls\u201d is \u201cdetrimental\u201d to some students.<\/p>\n<p>Parents at three New York City middle schools have had to battle against eliminating honors math classes.\u00a0The latest skirmish is at Robert Wagner MS in Manhattan.\u00a0The DOE contends that all Wagner seventh graders will have an honors-level curriculum in math.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/0111JHS167_07CHE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Police stand outside Senator Robert F. Wagner Middle School.\" class=\"wp-image-21491419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/0111JHS167_07CHE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/0111JHS167_07CHE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/0111JHS167_07CHE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/0111JHS167_07CHE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The DOE said that all seventh-grade students at Senator Robert F. Wagner Middle School in Manhattan will take an honors-level curriculum in math.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Angel Chevrestt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One Wagner parent captured the silliness of that claim: \u201cWhat happened, suddenly everyone\u2019s \u2018accelerated\u2019?\u201d he snarked. Citywide, only 27% of eighth-graders are proficient in math, based on standardized tests.<\/p>\n<p>Woke educational activists say math tracking \u2014 allowing kids to take different courses based on ability \u2014\u00a0promotes segregation, since, e.g., black students are only half as likely to take calculus as whites.<\/p>\n<p>Activists want to hold back fast learners and mix students of varying abilities to study math together.\u00a0Sorry, but talented students grow bored and even drop out.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/brown-center-chalkboard\/2021\/10\/04\/does-detracking-promote-educational-equity\/\">A Brookings Institute<\/a>\u00a0analysis found scant evidence to support eliminating tracking and noted some schools even \u201cuse tracking to serve the cause of equity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Students leave Washington-Liberty High School.\" class=\"wp-image-21491431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Racial-equity warriors are canceling Advanced Placement courses and eliminating honors programs all across America.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EVELYN HOCKSTEIN\/REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The answer to closing the race gap in school performance is not to scapegoat talented kids. It\u2019s to help the disadvantaged overcome the barriers to success.\u00a0Start with getting their parents engaged. Some parents don\u2019t insist their children complete homework, get to school on time and pay attention.\u00a0They need help buying into those standards.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, that\u2019s not politically correct.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Joe Feldman\u2019s \u201cGrading for Equity,\u201d the\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0Unified School District and the\u00a0San Diego Unified School District, the two largest in California, are admonishing teachers not to penalize students for bad behavior, missing homework, sloppy work or cutting class. Grading on those standards, the LA district says, is \u201crewarding our most privileged students and punishing those who are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-08-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Students of Montrara Ave. Elementary School are seen in their in-person class in Los Angeles.\" class=\"wp-image-21491451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-08-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-08-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-08-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Teachers within the Los Angeles Unified School District are told not to penalize students for bad behavior, missing homework, sloppy work or cutting class.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Xinhua <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Agency via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That foolish advice is the formula for personal failure and national decline. Bureaucrats putting it into practice are hindering the kids they claim to care about.<\/p>\n<p>Parents know their child\u2019s best shot at the American dream is succeeding in a competitive public school.\u00a0They need\u00a0to take\u00a0up the fight \u2014 before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p><em>Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Betsy_McCaughey\">@Betsy_McCaughey<\/a><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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