Posted on 01/31/2014 10:24:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Wait till De Blasio stooge Carmen Farina gets around to really trashing Stuyvesant. There clearly isn’t enough diversity there. But you have to start small.
A popular gifted program will get the axe after Ditmas Park school officials chose diversity over exclusivity.
Citing a lack of diversity, PS 139 Principal Mary McDonald informed parents in a letter that the Students of Academic Rigor and two other in-house programs would no longer accept applications for incoming kindergartners.
“Our Kindergarten classes will be heterogeneously grouped to reflect the diversity of our student body and the community we live in,” McDonald told parents
If McDonald really means that, she would dissolve the separate grades altogether and group students together based entirely on diversity.
MacDonald is making the argument that students shouldn’t be grouped together based on learning ability, but on skin color. That’s not just an argument for eliminating gifted classes. It’s also an argument for eliminating grades. Just clump all the kids of various age groups together based on race.
Identity politics is more important than learning now.
At least one parent described the small gifted program, Students of Academic Rigor — or SOAR — as overwhelming caucasion, although others disputed that characterization.
One mother, a Sudanese immigrant, said the program was brimming with white students — but she was looking forward to her daughter joining after years of high test scores.
“Where are they going to put the higher-level students?” asked the woman, who declined to give her name. “Sometimes, there are different levels, and teachers can’t handle all the levels in one class.”
They don’t need to. Just teach to the lowest common denominator. Send any kids who can’t keep up to special ed. Send smart kids who get bored to be medicated for Attention Deficit Disorder. Move all the kids along regardless of their performance.
And cripple any hope for those same diverse minorities by failing to challenging them and devaluing their education.
Public school education. It really works.
Harrison Bergeron Elementary School.
Mozart was gifted. Beethoven was gifted. These kids aren’t gifted. “Gifted” programs are just a stealthy PC workaround for the elimination of tracking programs, which used to group smart (i.e. high IQ) kids with kids of similar ability. Meanwhile, kids of middling ability have to learn at the pace of the sub-morons in their classes, and deal with bullying because the sub-morons resent looking stupid.
In 12 years no college will accept students from NYC.................
They will twist truth and logic any way they can to avoid admitting a very obvious truth: a certain government-designated victim group doesn’t have the same mental tools as their alleged oppressors.
Thousands of IQ, SAT and achievement tests all show the same thing over and over again. And they twist themselves in a pretzel so as to avoid saying it out loud.
Watch how quickly the white liberal crowd flees once their kids are forced into “diverse” classrooms.
“And they twist themselves in a pretzel so as to avoid saying it out loud.”
And that ‘thing’ is the Bell Curve!
The last thing our society needs is a bunch of kids running around with high intelligence and no guidance.
Meanwhile, the Chinese harvest all the brainpower they can and do all they can to make sure their smartest get all the guidance they need to succeed in life.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
MYC liberals rent their garments. “But I voted for gay marriage, not ending Gifted programs”.
The amount of brainpower we pump into low wattage individuals in our schools is incredible. We have Ivy League grads teaching unteachable morons in inner cities who should been shunted off into votech institutions after the 6th grade, so they could acquire valuable skills like plumbing, auto repair and so on. It's as if we had the Joe Paternos of the world coaching pickup football teams.
40% of blacks have an IQ of 81 or less.
10% of whites have an IQ of 81 or less.
That result has been constant for some one hundred years, and across many tests.
When diversity becomes a societal goal, you get Deblasio for mayor
A gifted kindergarten class????
RE: 40% of blacks have an IQ of 81 or less.
10% of whites have an IQ of 81 or less.
What is the source for this?
That’s due to “white privilege”.
Excellent and accurate article.
One rule for them...another rule for us.
Homeschool. For the most gifted.
That was my first thought as well...
Certainly some kindergarteners are farther ahead than others based on factors like parents, home environment and lots of other influencers... but at that age only a few can be truly determined as "gifted"
Unless the word "gifted" actually has another meaning in the vernacular of School PC...
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