Social Why Is The Left Waging A War On 'Gifted' Children?

[rob mafia]

• Public schools across the country are eliminating gifted and talented programs, removing advanced courses and overhauling admissions processes to achieve equity across racial categories.
• “Gifted programs and advanced courses provide a mechanism for low-income households to achieve a stellar education for their children and serve as a ‘great equalizer’ to those families that opt for private education,” according to Harry Jackson, president of the Thomas Jefferson High School Parent Teacher Student Association.
• Activists and politicians have pressured school boards to eliminate merit-based admissions and advanced programs for bright students.

Public schools across the country are eliminating gifted and talented programs, removing advanced courses and overhauling admissions processes to achieve equity across racial categories.

Removing gifted and advanced courses is a no-cost way to cover up the racial achievement gap while ignoring its root causes, according to Harry Jackson, president of the Thomas Jefferson High School Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA).

Gifted programs and advanced courses provide a mechanism for low-income households to achieve a stellar education for their children and serve as a ‘great equalizer’ to those families that opt for private education,” Jackson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “By eliminating gifted programs and advanced courses in the name of equity, they will create greater inequities,” he said.

Black students make up 15% of the student population and 10% of the gifted student population, while Hispanic students make up 27.6% of the student population and 20.8% of the gifted student population, according to a Fordham Institutestudy. Those student groups are 49% and 23% less likely to participate in Advanced Placement programs than their peers, respectively, according to the Fordham Institute.

Public interest in racial inequities increased following George Floyd’s death with pressure on public schools to resolve racial disparities coming from parents, activist groups, school board members and officials in the U.S. Department of Education.

Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ), the top-ranked public high school in the U.S., eliminated its competitive entrance exam in October 2020 following a Fairfax County School Board vote, and replaced it with a more subjective admission process which includes geographic quotas.

The Fairfax County School Board had been lobbied by the TJ Alumni Action Group, which was formed in light of the events surrounding Floyd’s death, and the release of TJ admissions statistics revealed fewer than ten black students had been admitted to the school’s class of 2024, Washington Postreported.

TJ’s incoming freshman class in 2021 included more white, Hispanic, and black students than in previous years, while Asian student representation fell by 19 points, the Associated Press reported.

New York City is eliminating its gifted and talented program following a March lawsuit which alleged the program – which was 75% white and Asian – exacerbated racial inequalities. The program will be replaced by a maximum of 2 hours per day of advanced courses for gifted students, to be determined by teacher evaluation of students’ capabilities (rather than a standardized test).



The California Department of Education is considering proposals to “de-track” math, meaning that students of all aptitudes would learn math at the same level in the same classes, and advanced math courses would not be offered. Students in the 11th grade could opt to take Algebra II and Pre-Calculus at the same time in order to take Calculus their senior year, according to the Washington Post

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) proposed a plan in January to eliminate traditional mathematics courses in favor of an equity-focused framework which places students in homogenous grade-based courses regardless of aptitude until the 11thgrade. “[T]his initiative will eliminate ALL math acceleration prior to 11th grade,” Loudoun County School Board member Ian Serotkin said, according to Fox.


“That is not an exaggeration, nor does there appear to be any discretion in how local districts implement this,” he added.

Philadelphia overhauled its magnet school admissions process in 2021 to give preference to “historically underrepresented zip codes.” Boston created a new admissions system for its magnet schools in which students are divided into eight groups based on the “socioeconomic conditions” of their neighborhoods. Top students from each groups are admitted.

We already know … that more choices, not fewer, is an antidote to the achievement gaps plaguing the public [school] system,” Walter Blanks Jr, press secretary of the American Federation for Children told the DCNF. “When families are truly empowered with high-quality options, and educational opportunity is no longer tied to a child’s ZIP code and family income level, we have seen those gaps dissipate and even disappear.”


In the name of equity, nobody can be special. Talented children will be bored and suffer, and our country will be worse off in the long run,” Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily told the DCNF.




Because ‘equity’ means everybody equally has nothing lol smh

Irrespective of all other factors a gifted person is inclined to be a success and show that government is not the end all for human needs. Until full authoritarianism is achieved suppression of these irritants is a F must.

Discuss

i look forward to our engineers never learning math. sure, our bridges will collapse, but at least racism will have been solved.

 

[rob mafia]

first off
this is a political subform of a MMA website not the MENSA forums or CSPAN

levity is welcome here

want an answer?
yeah its stupid and a waste of time and money

but i thought that was PAINFULLY obvious to everyone and i figured a joke was way more fun

lighten up Francis

lolz @ rage posting and telling someone to lighten up

 

[Simple Southerner]

lolz @ rage posting and telling someone to lighten up

He admitted taking away gifted classes was stupid the left just likes to troll for shits and giggles & to get even with all the white conservative Republican supremacists

 

[FierceRedBelt]

This really hurts the economically/social disadvantaged the most because their gifted children get no chance to break away.

Parents who care about their children will still push them and/or get them into better programs for their needs. I'd expect the gap between the educated and uneducated to widen.

Do we want to get rid of public Libraries because only a small group of people use them?

 

[Whippy McGee]

With the Betas in charge, bad decisions are the norm.

 

[luckyshot]

Lol, look at the mouth breathers in this thread pretending that the elimination of the "gifted" program might impact them.

I was in the gifted program by the way. It was pretty much shit. They took us to the beach two times a year to "observe marine life" (ie. collect sea shells).

Wait, was that the "gifted" program or the "special" program?

 

[tobiaswins]

And people wonder why our country is falling behind academically to other countries.

 

[Officer Rick]

lolz @ rage posting and telling someone to lighten up

rage posting?
i agreed with the republican consensus and i was obviously joking with my first post .. reading comprehension?

nice try though 1/10

 

[kahiljabroni]

They know the entire educational system is a joke anyhow. Its 90% social engineering. Our colleges don't even pretend to prepare kids to be marketable. And we're pretty much just going to print money and expand our welfare state until we collapse.

So really what does it matter? We're not trying to compete globally. If we were we would have been trending towards MORE math and science in the last 2 decades...not less.

Basically if it doesn't really matter then why not let everyone win. Its an empty, pointless victory but a victory nonetheless.

 

[Loiosh]

The radical left wants To create a generation of easily manipulated and indoctrinated, mediocre and obedient slaves of the New World Order .

We have those, we call them conservatives.

 

[Simple Southerner]

We have those, we call them libtards.

Fixed that for you .

 

[BIKES!]

Gifted programs will remain where the rich send their kids. This obviously will just keep everybody else down other than the .5%.

 

[Horse Style]

I was in the gifted program by the way. It was pretty much shit. They took us to the beach two times a year to "observe marine life" (ie. collect sea shells).

Wait, was that the "gifted" program or the "special" program?

 

[Loiosh]

Fixed that for you .

There, there little buddy.

 

[ReligiousDiscipline]

It seems like the left's agenda is an indoctrinated, vaccinated, emasculated, uneducated population. So far, they have been doing an excellent job.

 

[Rob Battisti]

This is sure to help our academics keep pace with China

 

[nostradumbass]

No no, they aren't waging a war on gifted children, they're only waging war on your children. Don't worry, their kids their donors' kids will still have plenty of specialized programs at their private schools while your kid is still reading books meant for 5 year olds in 10th grade because 1/4 of his class are functionally illiterate(1 in 4 is the actual number of illiterates in NY).

 

[Benjamin Burton]

This is all going according to China and Beijing Bidens plan

 

[Sketch]

Same reason common core was pushed. Massive changes in demographics mean the old system won’t work.

 

[Bargey]

Leftists really hate the idea of poorer people climbing the educational and social ladder on merit