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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....

I ran across this article in the recent Univ. of Memphis Alumni magazine about the same boy discussed in April here. It sounds like he is well rounded, happy, musical (violin), *and* very athletic: 3rd degree black belt in Karate, fencing, racquetball, etc. He also doesn't appear from the photos to be exceptionally tall- he looks like he is 12. The article is found at the following location: http://www.memphis.edu/magazine/v20i2/feat4.html Perhaps early college for exceptional kids such as this young man is a good option. It also sounds like it could not have happened if he had not been homeschooled. Just...