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Last week, hundreds of parents and students in San Diego protested against a plan to eliminate 11th grade at the city’s largest high school for equality, according to local reports.
An email from High School Principal Patrick Henry (PHHS) Michelle Irwin on April 13 said all 11th grade history and English courses at the school would be eliminated after the school decided last year to eliminate Advanced World History, Advance Physics , Advanced Biology and two other classes for gifted students, according to The San Diego Tribune.
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“We are eliminating the English language and history courses with honors in the 11th grade. This change will bring our proposals for English and history courses in line with what is currently available at PHHS in grades 9, 10 and 12, ”a document attached to Irwin’s email from the National Bureau said.
As of Tuesday, however, these honors classes have been restored after talks with the school community.
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“We will continue to offer our current series of courses with honors and AP. In addition, we are excited to announce that Patrick Henry will be participating in a district pilot course on Honor for All options in grades 9 and 10 to offer more opportunities for our students to earn weighted credits, “Irwin said. email to parents on Tuesday. “We will be contacting our teenage 11th graders and parents in the coming weeks to inquire about their course preferences for the 2022-23 school year.”
View of the city skyline in San Diego, California. (Sam Hodgson / Bloomberg)
Irwin continued: “We are proud of the work being done at Patrick Henry High School to support the district’s goals of increasing students’ access to challenging course proposals, while ensuring high expectations for all. I would like to apologize to the parents who interpreted this work as lowering academic standards for students. I want to make it clear that Patrick Henry’s students are some of the best academics in all of California, and we plan to continue this legacy of excellence. “
A section of the document sent by Irwin to the school community on 13 April, entitled ‘Justification for change’, states that changes in curricula after withdrawal will help to create more balanced heterogeneously grouped classes; removing the stigma “and” ensuring a well-balanced supply of courses for all students. “
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“Our goal is to have students of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds represented in our courses. A variety of factors, including access to education, adult bias and a person’s self-generated identity, contribute to the inequalities we are currently experiencing, ”the document continues.
In a school bus of Navistar International Corp. the signs of the united school district of San Diego can be seen. (Bing Guan / Bloomberg)
The move prompted hundreds of students and parents to protest last week. More than 2,000 people signed a petition on Change.org against the changes. The school then held two Zoom meetings after the protests last week to get the parents’ opinion.
“[H]”Before at Henry, we are very proud of all the work we are doing to support our students and bring our goals in line with the goals of our districts by expanding students’ access to rigorous coursework,” Irwin told KNSD. “We also recognize that we have students and parents who have concerns about the direction we are going, so we will stop for a moment and get more information from parents as well as students because we want to make this joint effort.”
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Neither Irwin nor the United School District of San Diego responded immediately to Fox News Digital, but county spokesman Mike Murad told KNSD that the school would pause the change “after listening to students today and parents recently who had questions.”
Murad added that the break would allow school members to “continue the discussion on how best to enable each student to reach their full academic potential”.
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