New York City to phase out gifted and talented public school programs that critics call racist.

ABC News ^ | Oct. 8, 2021 | Calla Kessler

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a plan Friday to phase out the gifted and talented programs for elementary school students that many educators say discriminate against Black and Hispanic children enrolled in the nation’s largest public school system.

It will be replaced by a program called “Brilliant NYC” that will expand the pool of students being offered accelerated learning, and not limit it to just the incoming kindergarteners who scored well on an optional exam that put them on a path to attend the city’s elite middle schools and high schools.

[metmom]

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[Hiddigeigei]

"If a child is truly “gifted,” he wouldn’t need someone else to teach him. You could hand him a book and he’d learn on his own."
True. The best educated are the autodidacts, but they need some guidance, encouragement, and a library. The Internet opens all sorts of opportunities.

[Tired of Taxes]

The best educated are the autodidacts, but they need some guidance, encouragement, and a library.

Exactly! It doesn't require a whole lot of money.

[Aevery_Freeman]

What about students that are gifted and talented in sports or music but not academics?

Axing fo' a bro'.