"Follow the Science"....
LIFE “results in an achievable gap”. Deal with it; try harder.
It might be hard for some people to accept, but different groups now have, on the average, different abilities.
I believe that these differences are not at all inherited physically by the people who have them, but are 100% cultural.
Nevertheless, they exist. If we want a better, smarter world, we have to accept this, and instead of blindly trying to “even everything out,” and in the process destroying programs for the gifted, we simply need to study what makes kids smart and do it for everyone.
Why is it my problem that other people’s children don’t achieve?
“Remember, San Francisco has already tried this experiment, suspending competitive admissions to the city’s top high school only to find newly admitted students struggling and the school as a whole dropping off the list of the top 100 high schools. Lowell has since returned to competitive admissions.”
I can’t believe they actually had to try this to prove it wouldn’t work.
Here’s another experiment they can try. Have one group of kids play tennis for 8 hours a day for a year, and another group study science and math for that time. Which would do better on an SAT test?
Make everyone stupid so the stupid don’t have their feelings hurt.
Like it or not, we do have to gave Mayor Adams credit for cleaning up DelBlasio’s near-disaster regarding those schools.
Now if he would act more like the cop he was, rather than the Democrat he is, he could get a lot more good things done.
What makes selective schools good, 8s they teach at the pace that a HIGH-LOW student can absorb.
If you bring in lower-IQ students, they will either flunk out because they can’t keep up, or will drag the pace down to their level, thus defeating the purpose of having the selective school.
Also likely is that frustrated minority kids will be so disruptive that nobody learns.
Another backwards headline. An existing achievement gap is revealed in admissions to the select high schools.
The elites want a stupid and obedient population.
That is the goal of “equity”.
Too bad all the students in NYS don’t have to deal with the NY Regents Exams of the ‘60s.
“ that had opened the doors of some of the city’s most elite schools to more low-income students.”
Why should low-income students do poorly on what amount to intelligence tests?