Posted on 03/11/2021 11:10:36 AM PST by Red Badger
A group of Big Apple high schoolers is suing the city and the state to eliminate Gifted & Talented programs and admissions screening — arguing they perpetuate systemic racism and reinforce a “caste system,” new court papers show.
“Nearly every facet of the New York City public education system operates not only to prop up, but also to affirmatively reproduce, the artificial racial hierarchies that have subordinated people of color for centuries in the United States,” alleges the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Tuesday by 13 students and a youth activist group.
The students, identified only by their initials, and IntegrateNYC — “a youth-led organization that stands for equity and justice in our schools” — argue in the suit that Gifted & Talented programs “exclude many students of color, who are instead condemned to neglected schools that deliver inferior and unacceptable outcomes.”
They also charge that city schools “teach a Eurocentric curriculum that centers white experience,” don’t have enough racially diverse staff and aren’t providing resources to help students and staff “identify and dismantle racism.”
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“youth-led organization”
Does anybody really fall for that canard?
NYC is 100% run and owned by DemonicRats. If NYC is racist, then DemonicRats are the racists.
These same yutes would also sue for a culturally diverse academic plan that would promote black wokeism, BLM, Advanced Ebonics, and etc.
If you are going to be consistent, sue the NBA citing a ‘racial caste’ system.
That may in fact be true (I don't know, haven't seen the statistics). But it's really an indictment of public schools in general. The solution is not to pull down the gifted kids but to lift up those who don't cut the mustard.
The truth hurts, but it is still the truth.
Merit based programs are not “racist”, they are simply merit based. I am sure there are white and Asian students that don’t make the cut.
I was in gifted classed all through grammar school.
There were a dozen of us. Eight girls, four of us boys. No one of color—but there were only 3 people of color in our school.
The program wasn’t racist. Every one of the 12 elementry schools had a version of “us.”
They were, as the kids say—”Competitive as F”. It was humiliating if a kid was in the class for a couple of years and then moved back to a “regular” class because they fell behind.
We were doing freshmen in college level reading in 6th grade.
And it got more competitive as we moved into High School. Those of us meeting at the college prep high school in 9th grade got more competitive.
By the time I was a senior, the AP classes were pretty mixed. It easily matched the population of the city.
Had we been dropped back into “standard classes” we would have been bored, disinterested, and probably would not have been taking ANY of those AP classes in high school. Personally, I needed the social competition aspect of it. I had to keep up to keep my friends.
What was the Kurt Vonnegut novel where strong people were required to wear heavy weights so they wouldn’t be any more capable than weak people?
The British conquered China with opium. China will conquer the USA with stupidity.
Many of the parents of children truly eligible by merit for such public schools, will move their kids to private schools, even with some financial sacrifice.
Parents who truly hate their children send them to Public "Schools".
“Harrison Bergeron” was required reading for a reason... but the message just didn’t sink in.
It was a short story, not a novel. “Harrison Bergeron”. I just commented about that comparison before I scrolled down and read you make the same connection.
Yes, I can tell..................
Woke supremacy.
Use our cruise ships that sit idly by to send these losers somewhere else.
Preferably to Davy Jones locker.
That’ll teach those gifted children!
Or, not teach them?
Students are there learn.
Sit down. Shut up. Pay attention. Learn.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about what students think is the best policy
regarding things like this.
Sure you were
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