New York City to phase out controversial gifted and talented program

[ipatent]

New York City to phase out controversial gifted and talented program

The current gifted and talented programs are only available to incoming kindergarteners who score well on an exam that then sets them on a path to attending the city's elite schools. The exam is already suspended because the city's advisory school board did not renew it last year and would be permanently eliminated under the Brilliant NYC program, according to The New York Times.

The current program has received backlash from educators for what many say is discrimination against Black and Latino students in the nation's largest school system. Even though about 70 percent of the nearly 1 million public school students in New York are Black and Latino, about 75 percent of the students in the gifted and talented program are white or Asian American, according to The Times. ​

Blame the exam if you don't like the results. They've already dumbed down the SATs.

 

[Ricter]

They've already dumbed down the SATs.

And yet, Cadet Bone Spurs wouldn't take the chance and hired someone else to take it for him.

 

[ipatent]

And yet, Cadet Bone Spurs wouldn't take the chance and hired someone else to take it for him.

What's that have to do with the topic?

 

[Ricter]

What's that have to do with the topic?

You mentioned the SAT, I riffed on it.

 

[wildchild]

And yet, Cadet Bone Spurs wouldn't take the chance and hired someone else to take it for him.

Are you still Hot for Hillary, you sicko?

Well you are going to love this.

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
Shakespeare