Posted on 10/02/2025 2:56:02 PM PDT by MarlonRando
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner for mayor of New York City, plans to end the gifted and talented program for kindergarten students at public schools if he is elected, calling for a major overhaul of a program that has deeply divided parents.
Mr. Mamdani’s campaign said in a statement that he would embrace former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan, announced in 2021, to phase out the gifted program for elementary schools, which has been widely criticized for exacerbating segregation.
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This guy needs to “not be here.”
You shall all be mediocre and you shall accept it.
This directly targets the poor.
I do not think that we need an entire gifted program in the early grades. We do need different reading groups, however. Many decades ago the primary job of a first grade teacher was to teach the children to read. Almost everyone learned to read. When the teachers unions decided to add “content” the main goal was not achieved by far too many
I’m not a bit surprised. A big Democrat-run city near me was concerned because not enough black students were in the honors programs.
The sensible solution would have been to offer extra help. Get blacks (and everyone else) up to speed.
But Democrats do nothing sensibly. The honors programs were all eliminated.
Education Equity!!!
Any child that qualifies for a gifted classroom/curriculum, no matter the age, no matter the race, color, creed, etc, any of that kind of child must come from a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic household. They CANNOT be allowed to surpass any other child. Their education must immediately cease until the other children reach their level. If the other children never reach their level, pharmaceutical intervention will be used on the gifted to achieve the equity nirvana.
The year was 2026 in Mamdani’s New York City, and everyone was finally equal.
Vonnegut called it
Sounds communist....oh wait..
I went to an Awards Program at my granddaughter’s school. Every kid got an award....600 of them.
I’ve seen this movie before. Slippery slope shooting everyone wearing glasses.
Everyone was above average?
The problem is the gifted kids will be bored. The “solution” is have the gifted kids teach the dumb ones.
They were like “Excellence” awards. Means you didn’t fail science....or whatever.
He plans to do all kinds of things except keep the city running
I started first grade in the early fifties, our small town school had been dividing the entering class into a fast group and a not so fast group based upon aptitude testing.
Worked fine until some of the parents started protesting. “My suzi is just as fast as her billy and should be in the fast group too”. End of the gifted schooling.
The city needs less police and more community organizers.
I wonder how many people realize that our future hinges on “who’s going to invent the next microwave oven”?
When we strangle the top of the Bell Curve we chose the Planet of the Apes.
Keep ‘em stupid.
One of the advantages of my Catholic high school was that the nuns dominated all. So dividing up the kids by ability was the norm. Can’t imagine the parents having any voice at all.
Our Chicago public grammar school in the 50’s didn’t segregate by ability but there was so much individual attention that I never felt anything holding me back and always saw the slower kids being supported.
My husband was a quiz kid, and his Chicago public grammar school handled him by only having him in school 4 days a week. The 5th day was for museum enrichment or college classes at a local Catholic school. When his parents began to worry if the public school could handle him, his mother went out to work and they transferred him to the University of Chicago grammar school.
I truly hate to think what would have happened to either of us if we’d been educated today instead of back then.
The responsibility on the back of today’s parents must be overwhelming.
Leftists beat down all that is good. Driving us all into the gutter with them. A philosophy of jealousy and greed and rage.
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