Posted on 10/08/2021 3:31:59 PM PDT by karpov
As has been telegraphed for years now, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on his way out of office has announced the wind-down of his school system's Gifted and Talented program.
The move is more symbolic than seismic—in a K-12 system with an estimated (though obfuscated) 900,000 or so students, only around 2,000 kindergartners will be materially affected by the change next fall, and the likely incoming mayor, Eric Adams, has said that he prefers expanding, not euthanizing, the G&T program. Basing any large educational fork in the road on a 4-year-old taking a test has always struck me as bizarre, so if Adams revives gifted tracks, I hope he changes the qualifications.
But at a time when public-school gifted programs across the continent are being dismantled in the name of "equity," the decision accelerates the progressive policy trend of working backward from concentrations of educational status—whether gifted programs, specialized high schools, or even just institutions with a positive reputation—then measuring the racial composition of students and declaring the results evidence of "segregation" if there are too few black and Latino participants.
"The highly selective program, which has become a glaring symbol of segregation in New York City public schools, will be replaced for incoming students," ran the subhed in today's New York Times article by activist education reporter Eliza Shapiro. And don't blame the headline writer—the piece is shot through with such loaded, contestable language, from the opening words: "Mayor Bill de Blasio will overhaul New York City's highly selective, racially segregated gifted and talented education classes."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Ebonics and gender fluid studies are the future. That’s where the money will be. Forget science, engineering and mathematics.
More inclusive language? Does that mean story problems will be rewritten along the lines of, “If DeAndre buys 13 kg of coke for $1000 a kilo, how much should he sell 400g to Tashawn for?”
My apologies if the price is wildly incorrect. I truly have no concept of what that crêpe sells for!
because we all know the pressure brought on by the racists who hate the Asians
Back to the jungle.
Get your kids away from these public cess-pool schools.
We can use this to our advantage. Drive the brilliant to our side. We have reason and truth on our side. That will suffice.
“Basing any large educational fork in the road on a 4-year-old taking a test has always struck me as bizarre,” It is a scientific fact that IQ can be accurately measured even at that age so basing gifted programs with testing is valid if you are going to have gifted programs.
Progressives don’t want any recognizable differences in outcomes which means they want all students treated the same regardless of their ability, so no gifted students exist in their minds.
The average IQ of American blacks is 85, which makes the average black and those below incapable of getting through college. But they will be allowed to pass and write CRT. That’s where we are.
“....a 4-year-old taking a test has always struck me as bizarre.”
Still the most accurate way to measure present and future potential.
More bizarre is that there are probably 4-year olds who perform better on the testing than de Blasio could.
In the end the gifted and talented will be the superiors of the dumb asses they will be forced to take classes with.
This is a good use of city reasources as no one in the city is gifted or talented.
cessschools
To coin a phrase.
Where every perversion, moral and logical perversion prevails in the name of arrogance and marxist narcissm.
It’s out of “Harrison Bergeron”; destroying the talented and better thinkers, to be as dumb and talentless as the dumbest, so that everyone is “equal”.
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