Toronto Star: Academic streaming harms Black students

[King of Kensington]

We we're supposed to have done away with academic streaming in the 1990s (anyone remember Basic, General and Advanced classes?). Yet it persists and York University professor Carl James persists that there's a bias in the system, who has found multiple cases of Black students being encouraged to take Applied rather than Academic course by teachers and guidance counselors.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/edi...streaming-harms-black-students-editorial.html

 

[jje1000]

There was a Reddit conversation on this last week:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/678t7t/black_students_streamed_into_courses_below_their/

I think an agreement was that this study focused far too much on the results of what happens in school and not what happens outside of it (i.e. family expectations/support structures).

 

[Johnny Au]

Academic streaming is also partially and indirectly responsible for the demise of Vaughan Road Academy.