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?
If I had a gifted and talented child I wouldn’t let them anywhere near a government school, anyway.
we seek equity in opportunity, but not in outcome!!
-PJ
What’s news in the story is that “Gifted and talented student program” and Baltimore happen at same place.
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.
I wonder how much the English as a Second Language classes were expanded?
crabs in a bucket...one looks like it might get out, the others pull him back down.
Keep dumbing them down so they can be ruled over.
Evil .
MD ping.
.
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.
Good. Cut more spending.
Public schools should provide a basic education and nothing more.
More parents should send their children to private school or find other ways to educate them.
Those who are truly talented wind up doing well regardless of what school they go to. That’s why I don’t waste much time caring around the demise of national merit scholars and certain ethnicities (including us whiteys) not getting into Ivy League schools due to don’t call them quotas.
“But instead, they seem to be leaning toward dragging the top performers down to an “equal” level of mediocrity.”
Yep, socialism is a race to the bottom.
“No Student Gets Ahead” program...
My advice is to stop calling these programs for the “Gifted”. Just call them advanced. As in advanced calculus. Gifted is a snotty assz way of prompting them. I never liked this word.
If the tax revenue is flat where will they get money for raises.
Even back then, the accompanying literature explained that eligibility was based upon raw I.Q. test scores (one had to be in the top percentile) - but that "extra consideration" would be given to students whose "underprivileged" socio-economic situation "presumably" resulted in their having lower scores.
(It was actually phrased in a much more round-about and opaque fashion - but even at the time, I found it remarkable that they should even only halfway admit to trying to compensate for racial disparities.)
So, rather than banning the program, the leftists of the 1970s simply found a "work-around."
However, I should mention that the Latino kids who were inducted into the program (in the name of "equity" - though that term had not yet achieved currency back then) soon dropped out or failed to ever display any enthusiasm. And whatever projects they conducted in the framework / with the support of the program were not very impressive (while my White colleagues and I were busy taking soil samples and subjecting them to spectroscopic examination).
Regards,