A Virginia high school has announced they will begin selecting students for Advanced Placement and honors classes at least partly based on the color of their skin rather than their academic performance.
Martin Luther King, Jr. must be rolling in his grave.
Todd Starnes reports: A parent forwarded me a copy of the letter sent from John Handley High School in Winchester.
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“Through our collective work, advanced classes such as AP and Honors will have proportional representation,” read the letter. “Proportional representation is 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.”
The letter went on to explain that public schools across the country “continue to see outcomes that are disproportionate by race and social class.”
“American demographic trends indicate that America will be a majority minority nation in the next 25 years,” the letter read. “Therefore, the new work of American public schools is to develop systems to address disparate outcomes.”
Interesting – I thought the work of American public schools was to teach kids how to read, write, multiply and divide.
A school district spokesperson reached out to me and strongly denied they have any racial policies.
“Our school division does not have, nor has it ever had, any policy that utilizes race for enrollment into honors or AP courses. All students, regardless of race, must meet academic criteria to enroll in advanced level coursework. Over the past years, the School Board has continued its focus on providing advanced level coursework as well as increasing advanced course offerings across a variety of disciplines. The School Board has not contemplated, nor adopted, any policy or practice that utilizes race in determining which students can or cannot take such courses, or any other courses for that matter,” the spokesperson said.
Among those who received the letter was Eric Sitton – the father of a rising sophomore honors student at the high school.
“I was taken aback. I couldn’t believe someone would put words like that in print to send around to the homes of students,” he told me.
He said he was especially distressed when his teenage son read the rules governing honors classes.
“I felt powerless to help my child,” he said. “Seeing the look on his face when he realized that he was being judged by the color of his skin was agonizing.”
So how does a public school district explain judging children based on their pigmentation?
“My son asked me, ‘Am I not going to be able to be in an AP class because I’m white?’ And I didn’t know what to tell him,” Mr. Sitton said.
Last year, he said one of his son’s teachers told students she could not believe anyone would vote for Donald Trump. She attempted to influence students with her political ideology.
“It is honestly like trying to run a marathon in mud – trying to deal with the school system,” Mr. Sitton told me.
Hopefully, Mr. Sitton’s son will be among the 40 percent of white people permitted to enroll in honors classes.
“I told my son to just do the best you can do, show your aptitude and hopefully you will get the classes you want,” he said.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
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