Last year, Marisha Hewett's honors English teacher asked her to drop the class after two weeks of school, according to Marisha's mother, Essie Hewett, who claims the teacher was motivated by race. This year Marisha transferred to a different high school. Basically your honors classes are Caucasian and you have teachers who are unfair. I never even considered enrolling her in honors again. It is true that most honors courses are taught by whites.
Some black teachers ask to teach regular classes because they want to teach black students.
But others, like Moore, believe that greater numbers of black students might take honors classes if they had more black teachers as role models in those classes. Black students say there is also peer pressure not to take honors classes. Many students see their grades drop when they first enter honors classes, leading some black parents to pull their kids out and put them back in regular classes. It's hard to keep them. Often the black students have poor test-taking skills and score poorly on the first exams.