NYC to phase out Gifted and Talented program

[rangerrebew]

NYC to phase out Gifted and Talented program
By Selim Algar,
Lee Brown and
Carl Campanile   
October 8, 2021 8:34am Updated
 

 

Mayor Bill de Blasio is phasing out New York City’s Gifted and Talented program, he announced Friday — bowing to critics who complain that the coveted model is racist.

Current students in the program will be able to stay in accelerated-learning classes to completion. But new cohorts will be completely eliminated by fall 2022, ending the current testing for 4-year-old city kids.

“The era of judging four-year-olds based on a single test is over,” de Blasio said Friday.

It is being replaced by Brilliant NYC, a program offering students aged 8 and up chances for accelerated learning — while staying in their regular classrooms with other pupils.

De Blasio announced the major overhaul despite being in the final months of his term in office.

 https://nypost.com/2021/10/08/nyc-to-phase-out-gifted-and-talented-program/

[rangerrebew]

It's official.  In addition to making the largest conglomeration of thugs in the country, he's going to insure they are the biggest bunch of dumb *sses.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Isn't it racist to think that minorities can't aspire to, and achieve membership in, New York City’s Gifted and Talented?  This just feeds into the bigotry of low expectations.

[Absalom]

A reflection derived from reality.
Of the 5 Continents:
* Greece & Rome birthed European Civilization.
* Later their Monarchies explored/settled the tribal lands of both Americas.
* Asia has remained dynastic at its core, to this day.
* Lastly, Africa embraces the same Tribal mentality is was born with.
As a result, the Negro has never developed and matured as has its neighbors;
his performance on the world stage, since Eden, affirming that cold reality.

[sneakypete]

NYC to phase out Gifted and Talented program
By Selim Algar,
Lee Brown and
Carl Campanile   
October 8, 2021 8:34am Updated
 

 

Mayor Bill de Blasio is phasing out New York City’s Gifted and Talented program, he announced Friday — bowing to critics who complain that the coveted model is racist.

Current students in the program will be able to stay in accelerated-learning classes to completion. But new cohorts will be completely eliminated by fall 2022, ending the current testing for 4-year-old city kids.

“The era of judging four-year-olds based on a single test is over,” de Blasio said Friday.

It is being replaced by Brilliant NYC, a program offering students aged 8 and up chances for accelerated learning — while staying in their regular classrooms with other pupils.

De Blasio announced the major overhaul despite being in the final months of his term in office.

 https://nypost.com/2021/10/08/nyc-to-phase-out-gifted-and-talented-program/

@rangerrebew

Yeah,that oughta work well.

De Blasio obviously wasn't one of the "gifted children" in his school,unless  you consider his diploma to have been a gift.

[sneakypete]

Isn't it racist to think that minorities can't aspire to, and achieve membership in, New York City’s Gifted and Talented?  This just feeds into the bigotry of low expectations.

@DefiantMassRINO

Of course not!

It is the white and Asian children that overacheive that at fault for making the urban urchins feel discriminated against. Somebody gotta slap the crackas and slanteyes back into their places before they damage the self-esteem of their dark masters.

[mountaineer]

NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of Redefining Language
Branding disparate racial outcomes as "segregation" is an effective way in Democratic polities to tear down programs some progressives don't like.
Matt Welch | 10.8.2021 3:29 PM

As has been telegraphed for years now, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on his way out of office has announced the wind-down of his school system's Gifted and Talented program.

The move is more symbolic than seismic—in a K-12 system with an estimated (though obfuscated) 900,000 or so students, only around 2,000 kindergartners will be materially affected by the change next fall, and the likely incoming mayor, Eric Adams, has said that he prefers expanding, not euthanizing, the G&T program. Basing any large educational fork in the road on a 4-year-old taking a test has always struck me as bizarre, so if Adams revives gifted tracks, I hope he changes the qualifications.

But at a time when public-school gifted programs across the continent are being dismantled in the name of "equity," the decision accelerates the progressive policy trend of working backward from concentrations of educational status—whether gifted programs, specialized high schools, or even just institutions with a positive reputation—then measuring the racial composition of students and declaring the results evidence of "segregation" if there are too few black and Latino participants.  ...

The best way to improve educational outcomes for all individuals is not to close down avenues enjoyed by a select few, but to give everyone potential access to the maximum number of quality options. Easier said than done, but never accomplished by a system of one-size-fits-all.

Read entire article at Reason magazine