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Garfield Student Speaks Out on Honors for All

In advance of my post on the Work Session on Advanced Learning this week, here's a column from the Times written by student journalist, Millan Philipose.


 Phillpose writes about his early frustration in school where he was well ahead of most students academically and was bulled/teased because of it.  It was only when he went to Lowell Elementary (the former home of APP/HC) that he blossomed.

He argues that the changes at Garfield High School with its "Honors for All" was a bad move.

But Garfield, despite being one of two designated high-school pathways for the HCC program, is at the vanguard of the movement to dismantle ability-grouped classrooms. Garfield’s “detracking” movement began with Honors for All in September 2016, a controversial initiative that forced all freshmen to take honors humanities classes. It continued two years later with a decision that silently extended Honors for All to sophomore English and eliminated the standard-level U.S. history class for juniors.

 I had not realized that Garfield had extended HfA to other subjects and I'd bet neither do members of the Board. 

There is an undeniable lack of racial diversity in Seattle’s advanced-learning programs. Last school year, black and Latino students represented a combined 27 percent of the district’s population, but only 6.2 percent of the HCC, according to the district.

This inequity is unacceptable, but eliminating our current system would be harmful and unnecessary.

He expands on a great example of gifted program in Miami-Dade where they find more gifted students of color while still having self-contained classes.

I believe that there is going to be surprise all around as the Advanced Learning Task Force and AL staff do their work.  What I heard at the Work Session was talk I had been waiting to hear for over 20 years.

Change is coming.

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