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NY City Diversity Committee Says Programs for Gifted Students Are 'Racist'
PJ Media ^ | 08/28/2019 | Rick Moran

Posted on 08/28/2019 7:46:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like NY is fast becoming a sh*thole city. Socialism is like a fly on sh*t.


21 posted on 08/28/2019 7:58:20 AM PDT by lecram (Marcel L'Heureux)
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To: SeekAndFind

22 posted on 08/28/2019 7:58:38 AM PDT by Bobalu (The Nobel Peace Prize doesn't deserve Trump.)
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To: SeekAndFind

1/3 of the kids in the NYC schools are “gifted.” The simplest solution is to make the “gifted” program the normal program (as it was 50 years ago) and put the dumb kids into the “retarded” program. Problem solved.


23 posted on 08/28/2019 7:59:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

I think we’re making steady progress in this direction, however! If we weren’t, Bil DeBlasio would be unemployed.


24 posted on 08/28/2019 7:59:49 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: headstamp 2

Unofficial slogan of York Tech’s Teleproduction program in the 90s.


25 posted on 08/28/2019 7:59:56 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep, this is bolshevik bullshit wrapped in a cloak of pseudo-intellectual clap trap. Don’t be fooled.


26 posted on 08/28/2019 8:00:08 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Freedom4US

What they really want is a world, where you standing in life has to do with how well-connected you are, instead of on your own merits.

The “Politburo” will decide everything.


27 posted on 08/28/2019 8:01:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Harrison Bergeron...
In the year 2081, amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, radios inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.

One April, 14-year-old Harrison Bergeron, an intelligent and athletic teenager, is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel Bergeron, by the government. They are barely aware of the tragedy, as Hazel has "average" intelligence (a euphemism for stupidity), and George has a handicap radio installed by the government to regulate his above-average intelligence. Hazel and George watch ballet on television. They comment on the dancers, who are weighed down to counteract their gracefulness and masked to hide their attractiveness. George's thoughts are continually interrupted by the different noises emitted by his handicap radio, which piques Hazel's curiosity and imagination regarding handicaps. Noticing his exhaustion, Hazel urges George to lie down and rest his "handicap bag" 47 pounds of weights locked around George's neck. She suggests taking a few of the weights out of the bag, but George resists, aware of the illegality of such an action.

Vonnegut was off by a few years, I'm afraid.
28 posted on 08/28/2019 8:03:18 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: cnsmom

All in due time.


29 posted on 08/28/2019 8:04:45 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
1/3 of the kids in the NYC schools are “gifted.” The simplest solution is to make the “gifted” program the normal program (as it was 50 years ago) and put the dumb kids into the “retarded” program. Problem solved.

Yup. The school chancellor seems to be stuck on semantics.

Call the top 35% whatever one wants, but let's keep those top 35% the hell away from the 65% losers.

30 posted on 08/28/2019 8:04:58 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: SeekAndFind

“claiming they perpetuate racial inequality because they’re comprised mostly of white and Asian students.”

The football and basketball coaches were not available for comment.


31 posted on 08/28/2019 8:05:01 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: allwrong57

As Ayn Rand’s John Galt said, “when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done. .”.................


32 posted on 08/28/2019 8:05:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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Libs want to keep everyone stupid.

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That’s not the goal. Implied in the message is that some of the people are actually not stupid, and by having programs like this you are actually widening the gap further. IE, your promoting runaway success. I’m not coming to their defense in any way, because I think exceptionalism is a wonderful thing. But I think that it’s the disparity that they are focused on. They think programs like this increase the disparity. You have to remember that the problem is always the perceived inequity with liberals. Take wealth and income as a perfect example. To the leftist, it doesn’t matter those below the poverty line actually have a relatively high quality of life compared to much of the world, and compared to the human condition in almost all of human history. The problem is that there are others with more than them, and some with a lot more.

So yes, you are right, if everyone was made equally stupid, they’d at least see their equity or “fairness” goals accomplished.

Never forget, no one “deserves” anything, unless you are talking about an entitlement class. Everyone else, no matter how much work they put in, nor how much effort or money they invest, do not deserve anything they get.


33 posted on 08/28/2019 8:06:19 AM PDT by z3n
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To: SeekAndFind

This statement is racist. They are saying that non-white kids are not able to perform at the academic level necessary to gain entry into a Gifted program.

I was a student in gifted programs, and there were kids of various ethnicities in those classes. The ONLY qualification necessary to gain acceptance into such a program was to meet the academic standards for the program. Ah, I forgot that merit is now racist.


34 posted on 08/28/2019 8:08:22 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dp0622

Ping.


35 posted on 08/28/2019 8:10:21 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SkyDancer

....how many of us Freepers remember that horrible experiment called “bussing” of the early 1970s....? how did that work out...? taking smart, mostly white kids out of their good schools and bringing them across town to attend mostly minority-populated poorly-performing schools; and taking the students in these poorly-performing schools and placing them in better performing schools... how did that all work out? It was a disaster.... as we used to say in the Navy, how fast can a convoy travel? only as fast as its slowest ship...


36 posted on 08/28/2019 8:10:35 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: SkyDancer

Yes, because the stupid are much easier to control.


37 posted on 08/28/2019 8:10:50 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

If gifted programs are racist, so is the basketball program.


38 posted on 08/28/2019 8:11:12 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: JBW1949
He says “poor” kids are just as amrt as “white” kids...

You should be thankful you are just average at spelling, otherwise the Handicapper General would be paying you a visit. Nobody wants the H-G to visit.

39 posted on 08/28/2019 8:12:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SkyDancer

rather than trying to raise the lower kids to become smarter or something.


It takes no skill, knowledge or effort to keep people ignorant.

It does take skill, knowledge and effort to educate them.


40 posted on 08/28/2019 8:16:33 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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