Unintended consequences: Wealthy and middle class kids will still have access to the same quality of education as they did before, those that rely solely on public education will have access to lower quality.
Inevitably, students from CA will be less prepared for college entrance exams. CA will have to institute a 'statewide college entrance examination' and, maybe they'll pass a law prohibiting using any other entrance exam in an admission process (because they're racist or something or other).
Top-notch tutoring still costs less than 4 or 8 years of private school tuition.
I learned more math from my dad who has PhD in physics then from all of my teachers and tutors combined.
One of the reason home schooling works so well. It is much easier to teach few kids you care about then whole classroom of the ones you don’t.
“Historically, rigor meant doing higher grade-level material at earlier grades, and equity meant providing all students equal access. The CCSS-M require a shift to seeing rigor as depth of understanding and the ability to communicate this understanding, and to seeing equity as providing all students equal success.”
If the goal is equal success for everyone, you have to hold back the high-achievers so the rest of the group can keep up.
What they are saying is that they refused to keep unqualified students out of the advanced classes. Keeping those students out would have exposed the schools to all sorts of accusations of discrimination, so they didn't do it. Parents insist that low-performing students be in the advanced classes, and the school doesn't say "no", so the class becomes a mess of failure.