As Sinclair Lewis should have said, when segregation returns to American public schools it will come wrapped in a union contract and carrying a copy of The State of America's Children.Discuss.
Principal Bill Jimenez should segregate those polka dots out of his tie. A high school principal in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is defending a policy of separating an underperforming segment of the student body -- and he's not talking about the Amish.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
The "Good" Kind of School Segregation
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defending a policy of separating an underperforming segment of the student body
Good for him. Underperformers in a class of high performers hold everyone back. Up until somewhere in middle school, my two youngest were in classes that included students of all academic levels. They would complete classroom assignments in 5-10 minutes that some kids couldn't do in an hour. Hence, they had a lot of wasted time waiting of the other kids.
The schools have honors classes and such in the upper grade levels but only on a limited basis. This makes the problem less severe.
As I've started saying a lot lately, one of the reasons U.S. students aren't performing as well internationally is because of feel good, liberal ideas such as students of all ability levels should be mixed into all classes. It's a policy of enforced mediocrity.
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