If you thought proposed changes to North Carolina’s social studies curriculum were shady, check out what is going on in Berkeley, CA.
A recent flap in a Berkeley high school reveals what a farce ?fairness? can be. Because this is ultra-liberal Berkeley, perhaps we should not be surprised that a proposal has been made to eliminate four jobs as science teachers and use the money saved for programs to help low achievers.
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Surely no one, not even in Berkeley, seriously believes that you will ?bring everybody up? by eliminating science teachers. This is a proposal to redistribute money from science to social work, by providing every student with advisers on note-taking, time management, and other learning skills.
The point is to close educational gaps between groups, or at least go on record as trying. As with most equalization crusades, whether in education or in the economy, it is about equalizing downward, by lowering those at the top. ?Fairness? strikes again!
