Posted on 10/08/2021 2:18:47 PM PDT by Half_Retired
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Friday that the city will phase out its controversial gifted and talented programs for elementary school students.
The programs will be replaced with an initiative called "Brilliant NYC," which will increase the number of students who have access to accelerated learning, NBC News reported. The current gifted and talented programs are only available to incoming kindergarteners who score well on an exam that then sets them on a path to attending the city's elite schools. The exam is already suspended because the city's advisory school board did not renew it last year and would be permanently eliminated under the Brilliant NYC program, according to The New York Times.
The current program has received backlash from educators for what many say is discrimination against Black and Latino students in the nation's largest school system. Even though about 70 percent of the nearly 1 million public school students in New York are Black and Latino, about 75 percent of the students in the gifted and talented program are white or Asian American, according to The Times.
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Private schools or homeschooling.
“Equity” = Lowest Common Denominator
When will people realize that the public schools do this not by lifting up gifted kids but by lowering the floor for everyone?
So instead of helping minorities do better in school, they are going to dumb everything down?
If I were the parent of a black child, I would find that incredibly insulting.
I’m surprised it’s taken them this long given that the teachers in the state don’t have to prove they’re literate. Because that’s WACIST
Mar 2017
It’s official: New York’s prospective teachers will no longer have to pass controversial literacy exam
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2017/3/13/21111588/it-s-official-new-york-s-prospective-teachers-will-no-longer-have-to-pass-controversial-literacy-exa
New York State Kills Literacy Test for Teachers: Minority Kids Hardest Hit
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/03/17/teachers-unions-celebrate-removal-literacy-test/
There’s nothing controversial about it.
It was trying to make sure gifted people were challenged and
there-by achieving more.
Can’t have that...
What a stupid headline.
There's nothing controversial about the Bronx High School of Science or Stuyvesant High School. On the performing arts side, there's nothing controversial about Julliard.
Oh good…deny and suppress excellence and ambition…make everyone npc memes…
Anyone figure out why they are doing this?
Could it be they want the normal students to look like
they are achieving, by putting these really gifted
students back in the general population?
Exactly. What - exactly - is controversial about this program. Are they saying there are no gifted and talented minorities? Are they saying it’s racist to have an intact family?
Something is always “controversial” if liberals don’t like it. If Conservatives don’t like something, like CRT, then those opposing it are terrorists.
See how this works?
They’re doing it because 75% of the slots were going to Asians and whites when most of the school district is black and hispanic. Living proof of The Bell Curve’s most notorious conclusion.
As if that wasn’t apparent way before The Bell Curve.
See Europe, see Africa.
More anti white and Asian hate policy.
Diana Moon Glampers approves.
I believe whites only make up about 25% of students in the program, meaning about 75% are minority. Asians made up a bit over 50% if I’m remembering correctly. Nonetheless, since Asians actually work hard and accomplish things, they are not viewed as a minority and their efforts are viewed with hostility by liberals.
Harrison Bergeron was unavailable for comment.
Yeah... I liked this response to you also.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4001918/posts?page=18#18
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