Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "Culver City BANS Honor Classes For Equity" video.
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Or black and Latino students could just do their homework and study harder?
I'm a former teacher.
Here's your homework: There's a free short story online by Kurt Vonnegut, takes less than five minutes to read.
The title? "Harrison Bergeron".
It's about this topic. Vonnegut saw this coming. Trust me, it's good.
By the way, when I taught in "Little Saigon" in Orange County (Huntington Beach Union High School District), half our students were Latino immigrants, half Vietnamese immigrants.
The kids of both ethnicities would start out in ninth grade with the Latino students able to speak English fluently, the Vietnamese students barely able to speak it at all.
By the time they graduated four years later, all of the top honors were won by Vietnamese students, including the schoolwide essay competition.
The difference was culture: Vietnamese families prized education and working hard in school, the Latino families did not.
I remember a staff meeting where a Latina teacher brought up the issue of why the Latino kids weren't doing as well as the Vietnamese kids (her answer: racism).
An older teacher, white and male, said: "No, it's because the Vietnamese kids work their asses off."
He was called "racist" for that, but he wasn't called "wrong".
The library was open after school for studying.
100% Asians.
I rest my case.
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