“Diversity” comes to Beverly Hills High School–at what cost?
on April 25th, 2007 at 10:21 am(myfoxla.com) BEVERLY HILLS — Black parents and civil rights leaders will present applications today for Beverly Hills High School’s diversity program, which was modified after complaints that it benefited few black and Latino students.
At an April 12 meeting with civil rights leaders, Superintendent Kari McVeigh extended the deadline 13 days to tomorrow and decided to stop considering applicants’ test scores, grades, writing samples and extracurricular activities in determining who is accepted. Instead, the granting of permits will be on a random basis.
The diversity permit program allows 40 students from 12 Los Angeles Unified School District middle schools to attend Beverly Hills High School, which has higher test scores, smaller classes and more Advanced Placement courses than most LAUSD schools.
On April 2, the Los Angeles Times reported that the students in the diversity permit program are mostly Asian. The next day, Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson called a news conference and wrote McVeigh, seeking to have more black and Latino students receive diversity permits. (more…)
Give it a few years and you will not be able to tell the difference between BHHS and most LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District) schools which rank close to last in the nation. The colleges and universities in this state tried this same thing years ago and were forced by voters to abandon it (although some of these same “leaders” are trying to force UCLA to resurrect this policy).
Bottom line: True Black progress does not come at the expense of lowering standards or abandoning test scores. These “leaders” simply lack the will to go up against teacher unions to demand for better administration of public schools here in California.
Weak and sickening!
