by Jeff Davis
One thing about science and math courses is that there’s no room for fakers. Either you know the material or you don’t. While liberal history or english professors can ignore massive spelling and grammatical errors and give generous grades to the quota-students for scribbling out some attempt at writing an essay. Math and science are not so forgiving. You either get the question right or you don’t. I guess that makes science “racist” since it frequently gives minorities poor grades.
An article from the East Bay Express tells us: “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.”
During poor economic times, public schools have been known to cut music, art and some sports classes. But cut science classes?
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