it's for the chilrens...
Posted on 01/30/2014 4:15:25 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
A popular gifted-student program at a New York City elementary school is getting the ax after school officials decided it lacked diversity. PS 139 Principal Mary McDonald told parents in a letter Jan. 24 that Students of Academic Rigor, or SOAR, would no longer accept applications for incoming kindergartners, the New York Daily Newsreported. “Our Kindergarten classes will be heterogeneously grouped to reflect the diversity of our student body and the community we live in,” Miss McDonald said in the letter posted on Flickr.com. At least one parent described SOAR as largely white, while others disagreed, the report said. One mother conceded the program did have a lot of white students, but worried gifted students now won’t be challenged enough. “Where are they going to put the higher-level students? Sometimes, there are different levels, and teachers can’t handle all the levels in one class,” she told the Daily News.
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This is beyond idiocy.
Diversity is for losers.
Solution: Eliminate Grade Inequality.
They’ll all be exceptional students.
I was in a GT class in 2nd-6th grade with two others. We were sent to the corner of the class with books and the teachers never checked on us. They were too busy with the remedial students who never did learn how to read or do basic math.
It’s all about race. It’s always all about race. When can we go back to being just people???
DiBlasi High
“This is beyond idiocy.”
Jim, this has been going on in Californicatoryou land for at least 3 decades.
Our sons, who are now 40 something, were in the so called gifted programs in their local grade school.
After prop 13 was passed, the gifted program was one of the first programs axed.
A decade, later it got funding for a while. It was axed again due to lack of funds. However, they found funds to pay for bi lingual aides across our local school districts.
Flash forward again. In another county, we have/had younger relatives in gifted programs for elementary and middle school. They are the racial minority in those schools and those gifted programs. Their parents this school year put their older child in a private school to avoid the pc ism. The younger child will probably go to a private school in a year or so.
it's for the chilrens...
The focus in public education: Teach to the lowest aptitude in the room. Everyone gets a trophy, just for showing up. And, each classroom MUST reflect community demographics.
Pathetic.
Home school them young’uns.
One of my kids’ teacher was spiteful so when the kids went to the GT class, that’s when cookies or birthday cake was served. Evil witch.
You can lead minorities to knowledge but you cant make them think.
“I’m taking my school and going home!”
in order to make things more equal, liberals drag achievers down, while conservatives would work to make underachievers better.
A program for academically exceptional students does not use the word “diversity” in its guidelines or it is not a program for the academically exceptional.
Mizz McDonald should be fired immediately for the crime of impersonating an educator (i.e. one who educates).
I LUV IT when liberal New Yawkers get to live under the socialism they want for the rest of us!
cultures that celebrate education and learning ( and don’t force celibacy on their most educated) will evolve into greater intelligence.
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