Posted on 03/24/2016 5:57:47 AM PDT by C19fan
Asha Richards was excited when she was admitted to a sought-after high school communication arts program, but she said it has been discouraging to see how few other black students have been in her classes during the past three years.
“I didn’t feel I could connect with my peers,” she said. “It was kind of a struggle for me. I would often be quiet in class. I didn’t voice my opinion.”
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Can’t see this being “fixed” without at some point having to say “well Tyrone is pretty smart for a black kid”. He ought to be in the gifted program, too.
Bell Curve...
Looks like a job for Diana Moon Glampers.
Just make the whole school system “gifted” (put it into the school name, logo, etc)....and then call a handful of school ‘extra gifted’, and that will solve everything.
Because everyone knows they deliberately keep gifted minorities out of the program. We all know what a hotbed of racism are Liberal Government ran social engineering programs.
Why it's like the Ku Klux Klan is in charge or something!
Sounds like a personal problem to me. Or maybe, "I just could not get myself to act white."
Absence of fathers in MANY of the homes of African Americans in Maryland would be the deciding factor for SOME of the academic achievements. Takes TWO.
Tests and exams have all shown the same thing, time and time again, without fail and with no exceptions. Statistically speaking, the average group intelligence among the races is widely disparate.
There is no denying this. It is not from “racism” or “discrimination” or “bad schools”. It is because the parents are stupid, and pass their stupidity on to their kids.
Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean parents make their kids study and don’t accept excuses. Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean kids have superior intelligence.
America’s a#1 prime certified victim group lobs around drinking booze and shooting up. Their only involvement with their kids is to be a baby mommy or a baby daddy. Their kids turn out stupid, ignorant, uncivilized and problematic.
Dear ‘educators’: Mozart was gifted. Newton was gifted. Yo Yo Ma is gifted. Michelangelo was gifted.
Your brat who has managed to stick his/her head two inches above the absurdly grade-inflated threshold is not gifted, no matter what the program is called or what the school tells you.
In academia, we call this “setting them up to fail”. I have a high IQ and could have been labeled gifted but I had an “unwillingness to focus” (aka lazy) that led me to have bad grades.
If I had gotten into UNC, I simply would have flunked out faster than I did at App State.
Who cares? You're in the classes. Embrace the challenges and try to learn something useful instead of focusing on being offended 24 hours a day. Socialize with your peers after school.
Twenty years ago, we moved into our neighborhood because we heard good things about the school system’s gifted program. The program was phased out the year we moved in, because they were afraid of lawsuits over the makeup of the program.
That's been going on for decades. Besides lowering the standards in the gifted programs, it takes the high-average students out of the regular classes, depriving them of the students who would set an excellent tone for learning.
Gifted children DO NOT need gifted programs! They need an environment that is disciplined, has space for creativity and intellectual originality, and fully implements a rigid curriculum. The needs of the gifted are best met with individualized and small group enrichment opportunities.
Skillful teachers never had trouble adjusting learning and testing materials so the less-capable students could acquire the basics at each level, while the most capable soared.
If the kids were encouraged to see each person as an individual rather than a racial unit the question of how many of my color people are here would be irrelevant. This is the cost of racist policies that are based on a skin tone criterion for inclusion exclusion.
The G&T opportunities are being dumbed down to pander to racial identity and the bright kids of all skin shades are the ones that are being shortchanged. Feel good liberal policies are what has made the USA 30th in education standards in the world. We have lost our way in a soup of platitudes that do not reflect the real world.
Life isn’t fair, people are not equal in all senses, some can run better, some can sing better, some are prettier, some are better in Math. It behooves us to provide a range of opportunities so that each can find their path to shine. Otherwise we are not only shortchanging the children, the communities but also the Nation. We don’t need to import STEM scholars, we need to grow them. We need to allow children to strive, fail sometimes and learn to know their own strengths and weaknesses. The current bigotry of low expectations and prejudgement that we need to make things easier so kids can succeed in equal % is corrosive. Pride in one’s self is developed by honest nurturing and the child’s effort. Each child has talents and intrinsic worth but the children are irrelevant to the left’s educational edifice and their potential is often destroyed in the name of social equality.
Reading the comments section, I’m surprised at how many are fed up with the politically-correct narrative that any disparity is attributable to racism.
I’m even surprised they ALLOWED a comments section.
Michelle Robinson Obama’s Princeton thesis in a nutshell
lets just change the name to the special snowflake program that way every one can feel good about themselves.
I think Berkeley, CA did away with their AP program for the same reason. Reality’s racial mix didn’t match their desired Utopian mix.
There are no blacks nor hispanics in any of my daughters 7 AP classes. Neither are any in her Junior Marshal grouping of the top 2% out of 541 in the class. Why?
She has to take one non AP that is honors and she hates that class because there is always confusion and BS discipline issues going on in that class between “many” of the students and the poor teacher. There are “many” hispanics and blacks in that class!
You tell me...whats the difference? She knows and we know!
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