This is how you ruin the next generation. Mayor De Blasio has decided to put an end to their gifted and talented school. The program required kids to take a test and only the highest scorers got in. Dems apparently couldn’t handle this concept, so they are putting an end to it.
“Mayor Bill de Blasio will essentially end the public school “gifted and talented” program in its current form — eliminating a high-stakes test for four-year-olds and no longer separating out students deemed gifted into separate classes.
The test has typically admitted only about 2,500 kindergartners a year into the “gifted and talented” program — a tiny fraction of the city’s school children. But those who have already been admitted to the separate classes will remain in them until they’ve graduated from them.
“As a lifelong educator, what we all know is that no single test should be determining any child’s future,” Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter said on Friday during an appearance with de Blasio on WNYC. “There are so many more students who are gifted, who are talented, who are brilliant, who have special gifts, and I think this is the moment about creating opportunities for all students to demonstrate their powerful learning abilities and for teachers to really tap into those gifts.”
The announcement will be deeply unpopular with parents who view the program as a reason to remain in public schools, but applauded by others who believe the program worsens classroom segregation. It comes with just three months left in the mayor’s final term in office.
Instead of using separate classes, the city says it will instead offer “accelerated instruction” to all students. That will begin in the fall of 2022, with a new model for all elementary schools that the city says will serve 26 times more students than the current program — reaching 65,000 instead of 2,500.”
They shouldn’t have done away with the gifted school, they should have just added the accelerated instruction. We should always be looking to nurture our best and brightest. They are our future. Notice how they didn’t say anything about race. That’s because it was mostly Asian-Americans who were admitted to the school, an even smaller minority than Black and Latinos.
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