Citing Racial Inequities, Boston Public Schools Suspend New Advanced Learning Classes

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School Committee member Lorna Rivera said at a January meeting that she was disturbed by the findings, noting that nearly 60 percent of fourth graders in the program at the Ohrenberger school in West Roxbury are white even though most third graders enrolled at the school are Black and Hispanic. "This is just not acceptable," Rivera said at a recent school committee meeting. "I've never heard these statistics before, and I'm very very disturbed by them."

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The program was open to all students in the Boston Public Schools who took a test known as Terra Nova in the third grade and received a high score. Those students were placed in a lottery conducted by the central administration office, and lottery winners received letters inviting them to apply to the program. Last fall, 453 students received invitations, 143 students applied and 116 enrolled this year, officials said.

...Why? What is this madness? People should have a right to initiate clown trials for unelected officials.

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"Equality" is a civic religion. It occurs nowhere in nature, and requires top-down enforcement to prevail. In humans, this takes the form of a 'civilization':

Those who would dismantle civilization would be advised to consider the amount of 'equality' that would exist then.