A high school in San Francisco might put science on the chopping-block:
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.
What is more important: Helping top-tier students to succeed or preventing bottom-rung students from failing? Quite the conundrum. I just wonder how the United States is supposed to compete in a globalized, high-tech world with fewer and fewer students going into science and related fields.
(Hat tip: Vox Day)
