How many times have we seen this play out. Someone questions the need or effectiveness (or sanity) of some DEI initiative and immediately they are branded a right-wing hater and condemned as a would-be racist/transphobe, etc. That’s exactly what happened to a group of three moms in Newton, Massachusetts when they questioned an equity push at their local school.
Among the moves made in the interest of equity was an initiative by Newton’s two celebrated high schools to combine more students into “multilevel” classes. Rather than students being divided into separate classes by level, students at varying levels would learn together — even in math, science, and languages. The goal: to break the persistent pattern that white and Asian students predominated in “honors” classes while Black and Hispanic students tended to be clustered in less-challenging…
