Equity, is it possible?

I touched  a little on it in my other postings, but wanted to address the whole question.  Yes, I feel that it is possible by an extraordinary teacher in an extraordinary school.  I feel that in order to be equitable in the classroom, the first thing that must take place is the administration must also be equitable in their distribution of discipline, policies, and time. There is no way that you can control a classroom and keep the students all working equitably when you have some students that do the same thing wrong as others, but don’t get in the same trouble.  A school has to be consistent with the students so they know what they can expect from the administrators if they do something wrong.  This is equitable treatment because the punishments get more severe when the student does it more often.  So following policy will make the discipline more equitable which in turn will let the students know that they will not receive special treatment and thus must behave.  Now, once your School is equitable, the classroom will run smoother making it easier to conduct class and get around to all students helping them equitably.   I do feel it is possible, but it almost has to be an educational utopia school in order for it to occur.  Now lets talk about educational equity on the internet.  If you are taking a online course, is it a given that it will be equitable.  Since the professor is not in the classroom and does not contact the students personally unless the students is in need of assistant, does that imply equitable treatment for all.  I don’t really think that it is because that would mean that if the professor made a comment to one students he also made a comment geared towards every student.  With that in mind, I think I have changed my view of “is equity possible “,  I just though of the fact that it is probably not because of the effort other students put into class.  Every students is different and thus each need different types and levels of teacher attention.  Not all students get the kind of attention they need, thus it is not equitable.  NCLB is based off the premise that all students can learn, but it fails to take into consideration at the pace that they learn.   So, NCLB does want equity among students, but doesn’t know how to go about doing it besides testing to make sure we have done it.  I don’t think that some students are capable of grasping the higher thinking of physics or calculus, but does that mean they can’t learn it.  According the NCLB it doesn’t mean that.  By my definition it does mean they can’t learn it.  If they learned it they would be able to apply it later in life.  I don’t think that most of the students I have will ever apply anything they are learning in my class later in life.  Like my students said when I asked them how are they going to be able to determine how much gas they have left before they run out, they replied, “look at the gas level which tells you how many miles you have left”.  I didn’t know that they had cars that would tell you that.  So, really, what do they need to know algebra for?What is it about blogging that makes your mind ramble.  I always seem to think of a thousand things to say and it makes it hard to get all of it in before I forget what my point of the blog was.  Hopefully you can interpret what I am trying to say.