AP classes in the USA are used to segregate students based on class and race.

zerocapitalism:

i mean… you can’t look at this and tell me it isn’t segregation.

definitionally gifted/talented/AP/IB classes are better than your run of the mill classes this isn’t controversial, it’s a fact. the better teachers lead these classes, the class sizes are often smaller, etc.

Because there is a drastic difference in quality of education based on the type of class you’re in it is obviously used as a form of gatekeeping.

black children specifically are 66% less likely to get into gifted/honors/ap courses compared to white children

and it has nothing to do with how well these children are doing.

things like teacher bias against students of color and wealthy and upper middle class — often white — parents having the ability to game the system in favor of their child are primarily whats to blame for this.

we already know rich white people cheat to get into college, there was that recent scandal where some were actually caught, but college isn’t the only time the system is gamed, it starts from the beginning of a child’s education.

I’d also like to say, it has been shown students deemed not-gifted still benefit greatly from being in gifted classes.

so it begs the question … if the kids the class wasn’t made for are also benefitting from it, why aren’t they allowed in it?