To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes

We don't let the remedial math kids work at NASA for a reason.

My state has very good education outcomes, despite being pretty damn poor, despite a population older than florida, and despite a shitload of blue collar families with very traditional opinions. It's very simple why: We require teachers to have a master's degree in teaching plus their subject, along with ~25 training days a year, strict expectations on experience and a requirement to take 15 credits worth of additional college classes on a regular basis.

The outcome, despite individual teachers making garbage money, and making even our dumbest students take the SAT, is that 9/10 of our students get a highschool diploma, and our full state's standardized test scores are higher than lots of states where things like the SAT are opt-in, meaning only college hopeful students take it. We also have very educated, intelligent, and talented teachers. My mother was a middle school french teacher, but the same qualifications that got her that job also allow her to be a french professor in pretty much any college. My chemistry teacher was a former nuclear physicist for the navy. My english teacher was recognized as on of the best in the state, despite living in a town of 9k people. Fully half of my high school class (100 kids, varying from farm kids to rich yuppie kids) were in "advanced" or honors or AP classes, including kids you would traditionally consider "class clowns" or otherwise uninterested in education.

If you were not interested in college, my high school had an entire vocational wing, where before you graduated you could get your CDL, your heavy equipment operators certification, you could learn to cook, you could learn to knit, you could become a licensed mechanic, you could learn how to manage a greenhouse or manage an entire farm, take prep classes for business school and go to national conventions, learn how to be an IT professional from never having used a computer in your life, or literally tens of other directions to become a trained professional.

When I went to school in one of those states, and taught in one of those states, it was pretty obvious that the honors/AP classes most definitely were more rigorous, and that is supported by the evidence of performance of these students in tests and college success.

>but just a way to effectively continue segregation long after it had been made illegal.

Ah yes, the classrooms with an overrepresention of Jews and Asians is a White supremacist ploy.

>There was a slight complicating factor of class but even still it was very clear what was happening. The white children of farmers (who in rural areas are the upper class)

The vast, vast majority of of White farmers in these states are at or below the poverty line. They are by no means "upper class".

>the black and hispanic kids, along with most of the children of farm laborers were in the non-honors classes.

This holds true anywhere in the US, even in the darkest blue areas of NYC and SF.

>Having grown up in an environment like this I'm not so foolish as to take the leaders of those states or the general culture war right at face value.

Definitely agree here about those in the "woke" areas.

>They want segregation again and this is the closest they can get.

This is what wokeism is calling for, safe spaces and segregation for BIPOCs.

>You don't have to buy into it either.

The redder states definitely are not.

You can't get change unless you make people tied to the system. If I can just up and leave I won't really care about making changes that benefit more than just myself. Unfortunately that's the only way to get the rich invested.