Baltimore County to cut gifted and talented student program. "Equity?"

Hotair ^ | 01/21/2023 | Jazz Shaw

[ConservativeInPA]

What does say about Baltimore when they have only four teachers for the smart kids? Why are there so few smart kids? Exactly where did Baltimore find four literate teachers?

[Mr. Jeeves]

If I had a gifted and talented child I wouldn’t let them anywhere near a government school, anyway.

[elpadre]

we seek equity in opportunity, but not in outcome!!

[nwrep]

Most of Baltimore kids probably have IQs around 75. It is a dumb city.

[SeekAndFind]

DIVERSITY, INCLUSION and EQUITY: ACRONYM --

D.I.E.

[ConservativeInPA]

Very few will write the truth about IQ differences by race.

[Political Junkie Too]

Jaime Escalante was glad he only had to deal with East LA school bureaucrats.

-PJ

[Lee25]

What’s news in the story is that “Gifted and talented student program” and Baltimore happen at same place.

[jeffersondem]

Stories like this could lead to another wave of escapees arriving in Florida. Maybe not; there may not be any smart ones left to flee.

[11x62]

I wonder how much the English as a Second Language classes were expanded?

[stylin19a]

crabs in a bucket...one looks like it might get out, the others pull him back down.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Keep dumbing them down so they can be ruled over.
Evil .

[KarlInOhio]

There is no gifted or talented program at Harrison Bergeron High School.

[TakebackGOP]

That was a ridiculous program. They picked people who didn’t belong in it.

[lightman]

MD ping.

[sauropod]

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[frank ballenger]

After Sputnik and the start of the Space Race the US and Soviet Union funded and rewarded academic achievement especially in science and mathematics.

Later, self-esteem programs suggested participation trophies and wanted grading to be de-emphasized or eliminated so the bottom achievers wouldn’t feel unhappy. Meant to reduce envy of the winners and hostility to the achievers.

Among black students doing well and being intelligent led to being isolated and ridiculed for “acting white.”

A professor who wrote books about childrens’ literature told me there were several books with this plot: A little Asian girl comes to school, new to the United States and feeling insecure. The kids decide to try to welcome her and make her feel wanted and a part of the group. Then she gains confidence and zooms past all of them in scholastic achievement due to her high IQ and the students turn against her and try to shun her and cut her down.

[VanShuyten]

“... “Gifted and talented student program” and Baltimore happen at same place.”

I would be just as surprised if a Finnish university cut its Quechua language program, or the University of Kyrgyzstan dropped its Marine Biology major, or Niger National University eliminated its Exoplanet Biology Studies Research Center, or.....

[GOPJ]

... yet another example of the war on merit.

DeSantis would NEVER allow this crap in Florida.