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Maryland school district examines racial disparities in its gifted programs
Washington Post ^ | March 21, 2016 | Donna St. George

Posted on 03/24/2016 5:57:47 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: relictele

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).


41 posted on 03/24/2016 8:11:13 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: C19fan

Any black kid in a gifted program in public school would be a target, beaten up for “acting white”.


42 posted on 03/24/2016 9:46:58 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Savage Beast
...the reading groups were the Red Birds, Blue Birds, and Green Birds.

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.

43 posted on 03/24/2016 9:53:34 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: napscoordinator

And here I thought it just meant you had a bunch of little kids.


44 posted on 03/24/2016 10:35:18 AM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: C19fan

If the parents and kids cared more about education, maybe things would be different. I don’t see that happening.


45 posted on 03/24/2016 10:40:55 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: PLMerite

My wife and I have 4.


46 posted on 03/24/2016 11:14:45 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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Good for you! :) You have coordinated your share of naps, then!


47 posted on 03/24/2016 3:07:24 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite

So true!


48 posted on 03/24/2016 5:30:42 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: C19fan; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

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!


49 posted on 03/24/2016 7:19:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: Paladin2

Now you’ve done it! You want to use facts in an emotional discussion.


50 posted on 03/25/2016 4:58:31 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother ("Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar." - William Safire)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


51 posted on 03/25/2016 8:03:21 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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