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Seattle Public Schools shuts down gifted and talented program for being oversaturated with white and Asian students
NY Post ^ | 04/03/2024 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 04/03/2024 7:09:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump needs to be screaming about the war on merit
at the top of his lungs. Immigration and vote fraud alone won’t win him the prize.


21 posted on 04/03/2024 7:30:21 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: The Great RJ
There are certainly gifted and talented Black students, but..

But, although present within the honors program, there are just not enough of them..

22 posted on 04/03/2024 7:30:47 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This idiocy sounds EXACTLY like something NYC would do. Matter of fact, I think they also eliminated gifted programs due to too many white and Asian kids in them. When I was teaching there, I do not recall very many minority kids in any gifted or honors classes, that’s for sure.


23 posted on 04/03/2024 7:31:36 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Wuli
I knew I owed that to my 4th grade teacher.

So, your teacher showed wisdom to effectively give instruction where needed.

That's racist.

24 posted on 04/03/2024 7:33:38 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My daughter was in a gifted math program, offered by the local state university for chosen public school students in our county, starting in 8th grade. There were two students chosen from her school

For these two students learning going outside the existing system - our bloated school union bureaucracy in her school had to assign a “counselor” to, supposedly, “review” the math they were studying (which was far advanced from what they were teaching) and “track” these students, make sure their grades were recorded properly, etc...

two years later, I learned the fat, lazy, overpaid “union rep” decided that the school should not advertise or promote this gifted program entry test, because it was “too much work” and “promoted unfairness”

Now parents in our school don’t even know such a program exists


25 posted on 04/03/2024 7:36:26 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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We were Couped:

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The Great American Coup d’état.

Coup d’état, also called coup, the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. The chief prerequisite for a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces, the police, and other military elements.
Unlike a revolution, which is usually achieved by large numbers of people working for basic social, economic, and political change, a coup is a change in power from the top that merely results in the abrupt replacement of leading government personnel.

A coup rarely alters a nation’s fundamental social and economic policies, nor does it significantly redistribute power among competing political groups. Among the earliest modern coups were those in which Napoleon overthrew the Directory on November 9, 1799 (18 Brumaire), and in which Louis Napoleon dissolved the assembly of France’s Second Republic in 1851. Coups were a regular occurrence in various Latin American nations in the 19th and 20th centuries and in Africa after the countries there gained independence in the 1960s.

Types of Coups d’Etat

As described by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in his 1968 book Political Order in Changing Societies, there are three generally recognized types of coups:

The breakthrough coup: In this most-common type of takeover, an opposing group of civilian or military organizers overthrows the seated government and installs themselves as the nation’s new leaders. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, in which Russian Communists led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the tsarist regime, is an example of a breakthrough coup.

The guardian coup: Typically justified as being for the “broader good of the nation,” the guardian coup occurs when one elite group seizes power from another elite group. For example, an army general overthrows a king or president. Some consider the 2013 overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as part of the Arab Spring to have been a guardian coup.

The veto coup: In a veto coup, the military steps in to prevent radical political change. The failed 2016 coup conducted by a faction of the Turkish military in an attempt to prevent what it considered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assault on secularism could be considered a veto coup.

Wikipedia lists some 13 examples of coups here in the US. Number 13 is a complete lie and does not tell the truth of the Biden overthrow. But that’s what makes for a great coup; the state run media lying to the public.

Wikipedia also speaks about a Soft Coup. Or a nonviolent revolution. AKA a bloodless coup.

But is that what has happened here in America? Nope. Look at the violence and bloodshed

Types of Coups d’Etat

As described by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in his 1968 book Political Order in Changing Societies, there are three generally recognized types of coups:

The breakthrough coup: In this most-common type of takeover, an opposing group of civilian or military organizers overthrows the seated government and installs themselves as the nation’s new leaders.

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, in which Russian Communists led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the tsarist regime, is an example of a breakthrough coup.
The guardian coup: Typically justified as being for the “broader good of the nation,” the guardian coup occurs when one elite group seizes power from another elite group. For example, an army general overthrows a king or president. Some consider the 2013 overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as part of the Arab Spring to have been a guardian coup.

The veto coup: In a veto coup, the military steps in to prevent radical political change. The failed 2016 coup conducted by a faction of the Turkish military in an attempt to prevent what it considered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assault on secularism could be considered a veto coup.

Wikipedia lists some 13 examples of coups here in the US. Number 13 is a complete lie and does not tell the truth of the Biden overthrow. But that’s what makes for a great coup; the state run media lying to the public.

Wikipedia also speaks about a Soft Coup. Or a nonviolent revolution. AKA a bloodless coup. But is that what has happened here in America? Nope. Look at the violence and bloodshed Antifa and BLM has caused in our American cities and see how clearly violence has played a part in the overthrow of our American government.

And then there are Predictors. Event and issues that lead up to a coup. One predictor not listed but which played a very large role in the 2020 coup was the manmade crisis caused by the manmade Covid 19 virus. The manipulation by our enemies to overthrow a legal election using panic over Covid was ingenious.

But there are other components that liberals used in overthrowing America. Lets list them:

1. State Run Media. There is no doubt that the news media and social media are but tools of the Democrats to spread disinformation and lies.

2. Fraudulent Election. There is also no doubt the election on November 3, 2020 was stolen by millions of votes.

3. Collusion with a foreign military power. The Biden’s (Hunter and Joe)collusion with China and other governments played a key role in how and why the election went the way it did.

4. Riots and insurrections. From Minneapolis to Portland to many other cities, we saw government allowed actions of violence and sedition in the streets.

5. A puppet regime. Look at many South American or African overthrows and you will often see a weak leader that is totally controlled by another powerful entity. Joe Biden is the perfect example of a puppet.

6. Goverment Agencies. The FBI is but one of many agencies that have been complicit in undermining the Constitution and was but another part of the coup. The events on 1/6 were completely orchestrated by the FBI using Antifa agents as provocateurs.

7. Troops in the Capitol. How can any coup d’etat be sucessful without a powerful military force to back it up? Pelosi and the democrats show of force - 25,000 troops at the Capitol - was another essential element of how the US was overthrown.

8. Political Prisoners. Yep. We have them also. Months after the events on 1/6 the FBI has rounded up and jailed hundreds of political prisoners with no bail and no trial. The Kangaroo Court verdict and the massively unfair sentence of Derek Chauvin is also an indication of how a Banana Republic sends innocent people to jail simply because they are on the wrong side of politics in this country.

9. Suppression of Civil Rights. The right to vote is a fundamental freedom. The liberals stealing millions of votes in effect removed our right to vote. We also had the right to free speech removed. Facebook, Twitter, Google and other media sites are very public ways to express our freedoms. The very idea that they routinely and capriciously remove and cancel conservative POV’s is unconstitutional. And what about the authoritative and illegal lockdowns we endured. The USSR would have been proud of that.

More Info on how this coup was successful
An American Coup
New English Review ^ | Jan 2021 | Daniel Mallock

It’s a Coup. Just Say It!
American Thinker ^ | Jay Valentine

American Coup
Frontpage Mag ^ | Nov 9, 2020 | Daniel Greenfield

The election coup plot, explained
American Thinker ^ | November 5, 2020 | Thomas Lifson

The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes: No doubt about it, the coup d’etat was successful.
Rutherford Institute ^ | 01/20/2021 | John Whitehead

You Have Been Couped
The Gates of Vienna ^ | January 15, 2021 | H. Numan

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26 posted on 04/03/2024 7:36:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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27 posted on 04/03/2024 7:45:45 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: moovova

“gifted/talented students”

There’s the problem. The program shouldn’t have been titled “gifted and talented” because that’s judgmental.

The program should have been titled something like “program for those with strong interest in math and science.”


28 posted on 04/03/2024 7:47:09 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: nwrep
Asians love Democrats.

Which makes no sense. Kind of like how Jews support gun control, when that's what helped the Nazis load them into cattle cars back in the day.

29 posted on 04/03/2024 7:59:13 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: nwrep
Asians love Democrats.

Sad but true. They're voting like the Jews. Now Hispanics are trying to leave the plantation but the Asians are happy to stay with their master.

30 posted on 04/03/2024 8:01:21 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27

By that logic, they need to end the remedial programs because THEY aren’t diverse.


31 posted on 04/03/2024 8:02:15 AM PDT by Extra-Ordinary Objectives (My preferred pronouns are intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.)
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To: NorthMountain

Read The Bell Curve. Science.

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors


32 posted on 04/03/2024 8:04:21 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27
'The program is not going away, it’s getting better,' school officials said on the district website.

Tell that to the parents of the gifted students - who will be used to tutor those lagging behind or incable of handling schoolwork past a certain level.

All students are not created equal nor do they all have the same abilities and interests, despite what these lefties say.

Looks like a good opportunity for private schools to offer up gifted and AP classes. I expect an exodus of Asian and White kids from the public schools.

33 posted on 04/03/2024 8:06:46 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The ONLY thing newsworthy here is that the program survived as long as it did. Were our masters out to lunch or something?


34 posted on 04/03/2024 8:06:52 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEA (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: RoosterRedux

“”can we get a round of applause for the parents who drive their kids to school each day””

Uh-oh.....another ‘lack of equity’ lawsuit is on the way. What about all the students who do not receive a ride to school by a parent? C’mon, Man!

The possibilities for big government intervention are endless. First, massive amounts of money will be allocated to ‘study’ the problem. Mandatory surveys will be funded (both home and at school) to determine the amount of unequal distribution of parental rides. All parents that already drive their children to school will now have to be licensed to provide these rides. Licenses, permits, and other money/control methods will be developed and instituted. Just like those DUI checkpoints, parental rides license checkpoints will take place on a random, frequent schedule. After a certain grace period, any unlicensed parental ride provider will be forced into court, re-educated, and shamed with their photo displayed in front of the school.

To address the inequity of the situation, some parents will have to cease providing this service to their children.

Eventually, the inequity of the type of automobile used in the ride to school will have to be addressed. Any parent daring to use the climate-killing SUV will be charged extra for their parental ride license and permit. If the parental ride SUV has an eight cylinder engine, a ‘big engine’ fee will also be enforced.


35 posted on 04/03/2024 8:07:07 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bottom line: in 1806, Prussia’s elite and most professional army in Europe encountered Napoleon’s conscripts — and came out second-best. Chagrined, the leaders of Prussia decided to re-invent the Prussian.

94% of the children, sometimes weeping and at bayonet point, were herded into government schools. There, they learned what they needed to know in order to become docile cannon fodder and factory hands:

* Nothing is worth thinking about for more than 50 minutes.
* Nothing is worth thinking about unless you are told to do so by an agent of the State
* Your body, time, attention, and soul are not your own, but are the property of the State. (1)

4.5% of the kids, the “talented and gifted” students, were selected and trained to serve as higher-functioning servitors of the State — doctors, lawyers, professors, pastors. See Herman Hesse’s brutal novel “Beneath the Wheel” for a look into that world.

And 1.5% of the kids were trained to be leaders. Their education consisted of intense reading, writing, and personal mentoring. By a bizarre coincidence, these kids were almost always the children of the existing leaders.

It’s much more fun to be on the human side.

~~~
(1) The most BRUTAL principal I ever met had this “gift.” He could pause at the door of a classroom, and instantly note which students were not “on task.” Which students had their textbook open to the wrong page, for example. Let alone who’d escaped the classroom and roamed the universe thanks to a different book they had partially concealed by the desk top.


36 posted on 04/03/2024 8:07:14 AM PDT by TomEd (Her şey hazır! Buyrun, şölene!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If some people can’t sing, NO ONE should sing! Then we’re all equally silent.


37 posted on 04/03/2024 8:09:44 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

See also post #14.


38 posted on 04/03/2024 8:11:00 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yet the morons will still vote Democrat. Just don’t move to Florida, morons.


39 posted on 04/03/2024 8:14:22 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m sure Boeing is delighted with the dumbing down of potential future employees.


40 posted on 04/03/2024 8:17:59 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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