Self-Destruction

Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs

The proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling students.

Social justice. Spreading the wealth around. Equal sharing of miseries. Whatever you call it, the politically-correct left would rather hobble the achievers in favor of the stragglers. It’s gotten to the point where they’re going to actively take resources away from successful white kids in order to direct resources to struggling non-white kids. It’s not racism if white people are the victims.

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.

Paul Gibson, 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. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.

We seem intent on hobbling civilization at an institutional level, for some reason. Thank Christ for the home-school movement. Nobody cares about your kid’s education more than you do.