His name is not Harrison Bergeron, by any chance?

54 years ago, the valedictorian of our high school was passed over for making a graduation speech
because there were no women in the top five graduates (and he had "already received enough honors"
according to school officials.)
Number 7 was promoted because of her gender instead of her achievement as a student.
She went on to work in a SoCal private university (no doubt promoting DEI.)
He went on to found and run a business until "retirement" at age 45.

That’s what equality in school means today. Don’t raise the bar to the over achievers level. Bring the over achiever down to the laggards. SMH
The culprit is common core in school. It has been now brought into industry with DEI (Didn’t Earn It)
Color , sexual orientation Quotas ensures that the Quality is reduced.

This mentality has, unfortunately, been around for a very long time.

When I was in high school (graduated '75), I was naive; I thought the reason I was in school was to learn stuff. I didn't realize that the "conform, or else" movement had already taken root in our educational system. If there were 20 homework problems assigned and I felt I knew what was being taught after 8 problems, I would randomly do 1 or 2 more, just to be sure. And that's what I turned in.

So three different times during my junior and senior years the head of the math department threatened to suspend me for cheating, since there was no way I could ace test after test if I didn't do all the homework.

In his little fiefdom (er, in his office), here was my answer to his accusations: Test me. You know what the test covered; make up a few problems right here and now (or grab a few from a homework assignment that you know I didn't answer), and I'll do them right now, in front of you, and give you the answers.

In all three of those sessions, I aced his test. And all three times, as I was leaving his office, he was still grumbling and expressing doubt that I had legitimately learned the lesson.

That was probably my first conscious awareness that something was wrong with our entire educational system. So my heart goes out to this first grader; I've been where he is, and it doesn't get any easier.

I am deeply saddened to hear this, kddr22. I hope this child can be rescued from such a horrid environment.

Sorry to hear that. The systemic wokeness in our school systems is a major problem that is going to be very hard to correct. It's ingrained, from administrators down to principals and to individual teachers. I think few children are able to overcome the indoctrination.