School holds off on some course cuts to gather input after students, parents protest
After hearing objections from parents and students over the past several weeks, Patrick Henry High School is pausing theof some, but not all, advanced courses that were cut recently, San Diego Unified officials said Wednesday.
In an interview, Irwin said she is holding off on the course changes to gather comments from parents and students, “because again, this is all about partners in education. We can’t do this without our parents and our students.”The school has scheduled two, one-hour Zoom forums for current and future Patrick Henry High families where Irwin and other district officials will discuss the course changes and answer questions.
But experts who have studied the underrepresentation of Black and Latino students in gifted and other advanced programs say it is better to expand access to advanced courses rather than eliminate them. Irwin has said that honors and regular courses follow the same curriculum, thus it is redundant to have both kinds of courses. But parents have said they don’t buy that reasoning; honors and advanced courses typically go at a faster pace than regular courses, cover more content and go more in-depth.
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