Homework is racist

Racist cupcakes

Well, I guess if soil can be racist, why not homework?

How to deal with the rude K-12 achievement gap in Los Angeles? District officials have a new solution that should be pretty popular all-around.

Based on the theory that homework is more likely to be completed by kids with a secure home life and involved parents — aka, the white middle class — LAUSD is forcing teachers to cap homework at 10 percent of a student’s grade, beginning next month.

“The policy is intended to account for the myriad urban problems facing the district’s mostly low-income, minority population,” writes the Los Angeles Times today.

So, since the Los Angeles School District realizes that Black kids aren’t competing with White kids academically, their solution is to stop giving homework because such assignments are racist.

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Via Nancy