Posted on 10/09/2021 6:23:16 PM PDT by TigerLikesRoosterNew
NYC to Cancel Accelerated Learning Program for Gifted Kids
By Tom Ozimek October 9, 2021 Updated: October 9, 2021
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has announced plans to cancel the “Gifted and Talented” accelerated learning program for schoolchildren, drawing praise from those who called the scheme discriminatory and condemnation from those who say it harms hardworking students.
Starting next fall, New York City will stop testing kindergartners for entry into the gifted and talented program, which was the subject of a lawsuit (pdf) that claimed the screens were “racially discriminatory” and fueled racial segregation in the school system.
“The era of judging 4-year-olds based on a single test is over,” de Blasio said in an Oct. 8 statement. “Every New York City child deserves to reach their full potential, and this new, equitable model gives them that chance.”
The gifted program, which faced criticism for enrolling low numbers of black and Latino students, will instead be replaced with a new framework called Brilliant NYC that will leave students identified for accelerated instruction in mixed classrooms but provide them with “extra attention,” de Blasio said during an appearance on WNYC on Oct. 8 with schools Chancellor Meisha Porter.
“The kids who have those special abilities for accelerated learning will be getting a lot of attention, a lot of opportunity to do it, but there’ll be learning with all the other kids,” de Blasio said, adding that Brilliant NYC scheme would ” reach tens of thousands of more kids with accelerated learning.”
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lowest-common-denominator progressive parasites.
How will they rate students after that? Normal dumb asses and ultra dumb asses?
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dems seem to think we are still in the 80’s before the Internet came along..White and Asian kids will do online learning..My sisters kid was doing that 10 years ago....The only morons in the classes will be the blacks and Hispanics...
Eventually, no rating except for how well students are indoctrinated. a complete destruction of education.
Dumbing down America. It has worked quite well in Congress.
We are all Leftards now.
Now the driven kids will quietly flee to private schools - another brilliant leftist segregationist move.
The very notion that some folks are smarter, more driven, or work harder drives the left crazy. This is why they periodically purge academics, etc.
The principal objective, unbeknownst to the soldiers (who are in this case fighting for “social justice,” or at least upset their own kids aren’t in GT programs,) is to cause division, disharmony, chaos, and revolt.
Communism is different in that it is ALWAYS in revolution. It REQUIRES constant misery, upheaval, blind hope, and violent rage.
Keeping successful and unsuccessful kids either intensely frustrated or far apart fulfils the core Marxist objective: a nation upset, divided, nervous, envious, enraged.
The greatest irony of the Democrat politburo and its half-million-dollar per year school superintendent lords and ladies, is that without racism and division, it could neither profit nor survive.
Accountability, meritocracy, and individual and familial success are the most dangerous enemies of the left, and they know it.
It’s kindergarten for gods sake. Your gifted if you don’t eat the crayon. This is hardly earth shattering.
Why would anyone put their child in public school?
Some parents will say they can't afford to home school. What is more important than their child?
Dammit! You aren't supposed to notice!
True equality is a race to the Bottom, and then you start to dig...
They relish euphoric feeling after the revolution(taking down something.) After a while, it will fade. Then they have to look for another high so to speak. It is the emotional underpinning of their movement, an important aspect which I believe is overlooked. I think it is tangentially mentioned from time to time but never given a spotlight.
My daughter was reading when she was four. She made my wife teach her. By second grade she was reading at tenth grade level. By third she was at second year college. Some kids are gifted and need special education.
At the age I started reading my daughter was at tenth grade level. Should we have held her back because you don’t think kids are gifted by the time they start school?
Can’t allow those kids to get ahead of the mama babies, apparently.
So the black and brown kids go full retard on the short buses, and the white and yellow kids teach themselves online at home (or in school)?
They hate asians
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