Posted on 03/24/2016 5:57:47 AM PDT by C19fan
Asha Richards was excited when she was admitted to a sought-after high school communication arts program, but she said it has been discouraging to see how few other black students have been in her classes during the past three years.
“I didn’t feel I could connect with my peers,” she said. “It was kind of a struggle for me. I would often be quiet in class. I didn’t voice my opinion.”
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I don’t know about the MD school district in question, but in Fairfax County, VA, when my kids were in school during the 90s, the “gifted” designation meant the student scored above 140 on an IQ test (Stanford-Binet).
Any black kid in a gifted program in public school would be a target, beaten up for “acting white”.
Back around 1950 in our grade school it was the red star, green star and gold star groups. I was green, but didn't really aspire to "go for the gold' because the teacher did not make a big deal of it. There were probably 40 or more kids in the class, too.
And here I thought it just meant you had a bunch of little kids.
If the parents and kids cared more about education, maybe things would be different. I don’t see that happening.
My wife and I have 4.
Good for you! :) You have coordinated your share of naps, then!
So true!
Yes, let’s go ahead and turn Gifted and AP into not-so-Gifted and not-so-AP by doing racial bean-counting.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Now you’ve done it! You want to use facts in an emotional discussion.
This is not new. I was hearing this nonsense in the 1990s when my youngest was in high school.
When the GT programs were being implemented in many schools back around the 1980s, there were instances of parents of various races insisting that their snowflakes be included in the GT program just so the parents could have bragging rights.
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