Posted on 10/03/2024 11:35:13 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
(This is an April 2024 article, relevant because the new school year has started in Seattle and the high school kids are being pulled out of advanced classes now.)
SEATTLE - Many parents within Seattle Public Schools are flabbergasted by the district's decision to shut down 11 schools dedicated to highly capable learners.
They include three elementary, five middle schools, and three high schools. The "cohorts" at these schools keep the students together so teachers can focus on their advanced needs.
There are hundreds of students learning at these schools, far above their grade level. .... Typically, these schools have more white and Asian students, and other races are underrepresented.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox13seattle.com ...
>> All in the name of “equity”
Communism
Our area has a gifted math program, run by the local state university. A rich alumni gifted a program for college professors to teach kids 7th grade through high school. By 12th grade, the kids will have finished college-level calculus, statistics, etc...
A child must test-in, but its open to ALL kids in the county - and its totally FREE
The fat, lazy, union-Karens running admin at our local school decided they would not promote the program to our local students. One admitted to me they couldn’t be bothered to keep a transcript of outside courses for the few kids in the program. Their public excuse was “fairness and equity.”
Do you think the liberal parents - and surely there are many, maybe most - will learn from this trtavesty?
When gifted programs are omitted there are no equity reasons.
“Equity” is only achieved by making smarter people as stupid as the reat.
As the late, great Rush Limbaugh noted (paraphrasing), “...the object of liberalism is to make everybody equal. What they don’t say is that you’ll all be equally poor and miserable.”.
Castlebrew’s Corollary: And in this case, equally mis- and mal-educated.
Diana Moon Glampers has triumphed.
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Can't have kids excelling, you know.
It makes them harder to control.
And the world’s STEM students continue to laugh at the US and its DEI idioticity creating student that are only experts on using proper pronouns.
Nearly as bad are the subjective criteria to enter the programs in some districts which shall remain nameless.
On of my kids has never scored below 99th percentile on the standardized math test, but was kept out of the advanced learning program because of a rating on the “holistic” criteria wherever that means. On math, of all things, they find a way to make it subjective.
I think the real reason this nameless district wouldn’t let him into advanced learning is because of his gender and race.
When I had the privilege of teaching Middle School math, I often let the students that could advance farther go ahead in the book. They had to prove that they could master the subject of the day first. Once they demonstrated this, they could move ahead, or work on homework from another class, and I would help them with that, if needed. Sometimes they would ask why other teachers would not let them move forward. I would state that I could not control others, only myself.
I also had a M-F 3-hour after school tutoring center, where students could just come and work on any subject. They did not have to ask questions, but I was available if they did. One of students in another math teacher’s class told me a story I will never forget. She asked HER teacher for assistance after school. Her teacher, instead of sitting down and assisting their own student, told her to go to my after school help. I’m sure that student saw the disgust on my face. I made sure she knew that she could always receive assistance.
Unions and tenure keep “teachers” like that employed.
Besides the students that were more advanced, I adored assisting the ones that struggled. If you tell someone, every day, that they can do it, eventually they might begin to believe it. I used to tell the ones struggling that I also did not do well in math until a good teacher made it simple. We cannot control what happens outside of school, but to witness those students who struggled begin to believe they could learn is something I will never forget.
I’m sure that they will soon institute a “LowHorts” program that will drag everyone down to the lowest level but achieve equity when all are at the moron level.
The coming Communist Workers Paradise does not want their field-hands to be educated.
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