Boston Public Schools has suspended testing for and new enrollment in a selective program for academically advanced fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, with officials raising questions of “equity” after discovering a majority of the program’s students are white or Asian.
Admission to the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, has been officially paused due to COVID-19, but district officials seem poised to use the program’s COVID shutdown to introduce social engineering and a demographic overhaul. At current count, 70% of students enrolled in the program are of white or Asian descent, while the racial makeup of Boston Public Schools as a whole is roughly 80% black and Hispanic. Read more…