Posted on 10/08/2021 8:52:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I always thought it was a stupid program. All kids are gifted and talented in the eyes of God.
Any Guesses?
Yes. Guessing that the KKK is chortling.
Literacy is rayciss.
New York voters getting what they deserve.
How is there a G&T for Kindergarten?
Do all kids have the same intelligence in the eyes of God?
That program gave poor but bright students the opportunity to get an education commensurate with their abilities.
Rich New Yorkers can and do send their kids to private schools. They don’t want any plebeians competing with their kids for prestigious college spots.
I guess it hurt the feelz of the Bell Curve leftsiders. Most of whom you know exactly who they are.
Blacks don’t study,don’t learn...I’m surprised that Hispanic parents are going along with having their kids called stupid.....
The race towards the bottom and a tremendous waste of talent. Why would an education system which is able to get less than 40% of students to 8th grade level in math & reading on graduation magically be able to accelerate all students?
The “educators who can’t educate” need to destroy the part of the system that works so that everyone is equally poorly educated. Liberals are clearly insane.
Some children can play a violin. Others can use it for a baseball bat. I see no reason for the two to be forced to comingle all of the time.
What does the equal value of every person have to do with intelligence, work ethic & ambition? Each person is unique, some have the ability to excel at science, math & creative thinking. Those people should be given the opportunity to use their talents just as others use their own different talents. To do that they need more advanced material and more challenges. We are not a socialistic factory yet with everyone the same.
Yes, and there was a story last spring about certain private schools in Manhattan going woke.
The reaction was immediate: parents promptly removed their children and forfeited a good chunk of pre-paid tuition money, which could have been a new Mercedes for the wife or girlfriend.
It's becoming more and more true with each passing decade that NYC is no place to be raising a family. Public schools are a crapshoot with expensive private schools not far behind.
Ten to one they have similar programs in China and Russia to identify the most talented students which they will not be eliminating.
Yes, all kids are beautiful; but, not all kids are "gifted". I don't really like using that word; but, it is the word they use.
There are some children who are just way ahead of their peers intellectually. I know this, because I had one. She could read single words at 2 and was reading her little story books on her own at 4. She was able to sit still and complete a task at 4. She understood instructions at an early age. She had a large vocabulary for a child so young. I had to fight the public schools to let her in "early" (her 5th birthday was in early Nov). They wouldn't take her, so I put her into a Montessori kindergarten and then straight into Catholic School.
I'll always remember the test that she took at the Catholic elementary school. I was waiting for her to be done and I saw the woman giving her the test running down the hall to the office where I was sitting. She said to me; "do you know that she is reading already?" I just laughed and told her yes, that is why I am trying to find a school that will take her.
She was always the youngest kid in her grade throughout school. And, she was always at the top for grades.
You really have to have a kid like this, to understand what they are like. They can be just as difficult to deal with as the lower end kids who act out. These kids act out when they are bored; and, in high school, they are usually smarter than the teacher. These types of kids need to be challenged intellectually, and, it starts at the very beginning, kindergarten.
Lastly, I would like to point out that these are the adults of the future who will be inventing new things to benefit the rest of us. They need to be nurtured. But, they also need to be challenged.
Uhuh... And Jesus loves you.
But everyone else thinks you're a jerk.
Nothing like that could ever happen in the USA could it?
(Like putty in my hands . . )
The false ideology of equity has sunk a noble high school program that rewards excellence. I knew the trophy for all practice would drift into a trophy for none and fall into the ditch. Excellence needs to be rewarded and, those who have a natural talent, given the opportunity to do their best for society. When will the Sleeping Giant awaken?
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