WTF California

can't believe it but honors a classes

might be a thing of the past you might

remember going to high school and you

might remember their regular classes

there are honors classes and then there

are advanced placement classes AP

classes honors classes were more

challenging AP classes were even more

challenging and potentially gave you

college credit if you got a four or five

generally on the advanced placement test

however according to the Wall Street

Journal cities in places like none other

than California once again are deciding

you know what it's time to increase

equity and by increasing Equity we're

going to punish people who want to

challenge themselves yes that's

literally something that's happening now

in California take a look at this Culver

City California a group of parents

stepped up to the lectern Tuesday night

at a school board meeting in this middle

class Los Angeles area City to push back

against a racial Equity initiative

initiative the high school they argued

should reinstate honors English classes

which were eliminated because they did

not enroll enough black and Latino

students the district earlier this year

replaced the honors classes at Culver

City High School with uniform courses

officials say will ensure all students

of all Races receive equal rigorous

education

the article goes on to say uh that that

well they talk about the parents uh uh

fighting this suggesting look we really

feel Equity means offering opportunities

to people of diverse backgrounds not

taking away opportunities for others I

think there's a phrase here that is

really applicable when we think about

this and it's uh Equity should be equal

opportunity everybody gets an equal

opportunity but not an equal result

right so if you have potentially

different students advancing at

different levels they shouldn't be

punished so to speak and and not be able

to take an honors class because somebody

else hasn't been able to catch up as

much now

the folks in California who are removing

honors classes suggests that one of the

reasons the honors classes were removed

was because only 13 percent of those in

the 12th grade advanced placement

classes were Latino whereas Latinos

represented 37 percent of the student

body Asians made up 34 of the AP class

compared to just 10 percent of the

students black students represented

about 14 of AP English versus 15 of the

student body a little bit more in line

there

and they go into this idea that

individuals from a younger age may feel

less motivated if uh if everyone else is

taking honors classes and they're just

taking normal classes and the honors

classes let people maybe average a

higher GPA for uh for for getting into

college or whatever so the idea Culver

High School has implemented is you know

what let's just get rid of the

opportunity for you to take honors

classes and let's let everyone take

what's known as a college prep class

everyone will take College Prep now that

might seem like it's better than just a

regular English class well this is where

I'd like to add my own two cents this is

straight up [ __ ] California is so

stupid and their school system is

failing so much now they're actually

demoting people who are trying to

challenge themselves in schools this is

shocking I actually had the honor of

going to a California high school for

12th grade when I was a student in

Florida I took honors classes and AP

classes when I came out to California I

actually purposefully only took college

prep classes guess why I wanted to do

nothing and I aced those classes doing

nothing I came here and from went from

actually learning a lot in honors and AP

classes to purposefully taking College

Prep in California and learning nothing

there was essentially no homework no

challenge no education it was stupid I

learned nearly nothing it wasn't until I

went to college that I actually started

learning again so I kind of felt like my

senior day was a complete waste in fact

college prep classes were known as being

so easy that two things personally

happened to me because I've got a lot of

personal experience related to this

because again I I went to a California

high school

two things happened to me number one

because the classes were so easy I only

had to go for a half of a day so I

didn't even get the full High School

experience in high school here in

California because the horses were so

easy on top of that in my very first day

taking a college prep class in college

prep economics

the uh teacher in that 12th grade class

came up to me and said hey you know a

lot about economics do you want to come

in my AP class and at that point I had

already convinced myself that for my

senior year uh because I moved out here

to live with my girlfriend I'm like nope

I want to do nothing so I told the

teacher I go no thanks but it was it was

really cool because I go to a college

prep class and within the first day he's

like uh do you want to go to AP

uh which which you know was really cool

but it went to show that even the

teachers are like like if if you

actually have an interest in the subject

you don't belong in college prep because

College Prep is so easy so now what you

actually have is California and other

states like Rhode Island suggesting you

know what if we can't have everyone have

an honors class let's just dumb it down

let's just run remove the honors classes

so that way everybody can be in the

basic class together I personally think

everyone should have the choice the

right to choose if I want the right to

choose an easier class I have that if I

have the right to choose a harder class

I should have that opportunity now

regarding Equity I actually ran for

governor and I realized that

unfortunately in poorer areas you do

something known as you concentrate

poverty so what that means is

individuals who are living in poverty

end up often becoming poor that's

because when you live in poverty you

have you have a real struggle to get by

and survive so you end up moving to

cheaper and cheaper locations well the

more you move to cheaper areas the worse

social services are for those areas

because more people are moving to them

and I mean Social Services being like

police Medicare medical fire all that

all these services are worse schools

generally go down as well so when you

concentrate poverty you create problems

but you also tend to reduce opportunity

for those folks and I realized that when

I ran for governor when I ran for

governor I realized you need to help

education in the poorer areas to

actually be able to help minimize

poverty in the future so the state

should be making a very strong effort to

provide more services in poorer areas in

fact I had a concept known as future

schools where when I ran for governor in

California and I came in second place

out of the uh out of the recall

candidates

almost a million votes and realized that

what we needed to do was actually

educate students more in poorer areas

who yes are in California more often

black or Latino and what you ended up

needing to do was provide a new

potential school system where where you

could teach

completely from the bottom up and solve

the education system solely in high

school so in other words we would not

rely on the education someone received

in elementary school or middle school

because it was probably bad and that

education a younger individuals in

poorer areas received often uh in the

poor areas you would substantially hire

black and Latino populations

the education those folks received from

elementary school to middle school was

so subpar that they had no chance to get

by in high school so California's

solution to this is okay well if we

can't have everyone be in honors classes

let's not fix why they can't get into an

honors class let's just remove the

honors classes that's completely moronic

it's kind of like how California tried

solving

fire hydrant theft so illegal marijuana

farms in the desert of California were

hooking up illegally to fire hydrants to

water their illegal marijuana plants

their Farms right their illegal

marijuana forms and rather than prevent

the crime

California decided let's just remove the

fire hydrants

California is so backwards you literally

cannot have a more stupid state oh

people are stealing water from the fire

hydrants well let's get rid of the fire

hydrants oh people can't make it into

honors classes because they're

elementary and middle school education

sucked Wow Let's just remove honors

classes and punish people in California

this is the most stupid thing I have

ever seen California is so backwards and

their rationalization for removing

honors classes in uh Culver City is well

the teachers were Jarred by the racial

statistics and felt obligated to do

something

the teachers should feel obligated not

to fail people in elementary school in

middle school maybe if the teachers

union got off their ass and did

something and actually helped and and

fund teachers more appropriately

especially in poorer areas maybe

everybody would have the opportunity to

enroll in a honors class if they wanted

to but no rather than trying to elevate

students California wants to demote the

successful folks or the folks who want

to try harder or have a greater

opportunity that's pathetic that is a

disaster California is getting worse by

the day I feel embarrassed to say I live

in California

I feel like I I am making these videos

so often now where I'm like what the

hell is happening in California and it's

just getting worse and worse and worse

it's so frustrating and then sometimes I

get comments from people that are like

well why did why did you try to do

something about it Kevin I did it

literally ran for governor when I was 29

years old it came in second place

good it's gracious one party rule equals

Echo chamber you're very correct that's

the problem you literally have a

government that would rather send

stimulus checks to people making five

hundred thousand dollars

then actually keep

honors classes that's California for you

that's so stupid

ah crazy crazy crazy crazy

that's why California rant for you