From a College Board site...
Our “All In” campaign is focused on increasing the enrollment of African American, Latino, and Native American students in AP® courses. We know that you, too, are committed to equality and helping all students achieve at a higher level. This is a tremendous opportunity for you to help by joining the College Board’s All In campaign.
By registering below, you pledge to review the master schedule at your school or in your district to ensure that 100 percent of African American, Latino, and Native American students with AP Potential™ are enrolled in courses in the 2014-15 school year.
... Maybe students... should be encouraged to take AP... but it should still be their choice. The College Board... advocating discriminatory behavior...
I agree with
encouragement of all pupils as well as the right of each pupil to
own their decision and make it work, whether they may choose to take one or more AP courses or forego them. Students benefit from developing
internal locus of control.
With regard to
"ensuring that 100 percent..." some may say this type of influence upon a student's decision-making, if it is to be exercised at all, is best left to parents. Having an outside entity insert itself into the process may be overstepping. Do parents feel sufficiently out of the loop that they are willing to step aside from advising their children and welcome institutions to do this?
Targeting specific ethnicities blatantly treats people not as individuals but as demographic statistics.
