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| Bezerkeley HS to drop science labs |
| 2010-01-01 |
| Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students. The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse. Yeah, the way to close that gap is to lower white scores. You betcha. Paul Gibson, an alternate parent What is an alternate parent? representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. For white students or attended by white students? This is blatant racism. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous. Science teachers were understandably horrified by the proposal. I continue to believe the greatest threat to the national security of the US is the NEA and its fellow travelers. |
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