Another giant step toward equality

Forget the happy-happy talk about equal opportunity for all -- that just perpetuates unequal outcomes. This is how it's done:

Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.

The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse. ...

The full plan to close the racial achievement gap by altering the structure of the high school is known as the High School Redesign.

That reminds me of a story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:

It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.

The moral of the story: We need to get our children out of the government schools. Then we must get the government out of our lives.

But, say, wouldn't Janet Napolitano make a great Diana Moon Glampers?


That would make a doozy of a story.