[Spooky]

New York City will phase out its program for gifted and talented students that critics say favors whites and Asian American students, while enrolling disproportionately few Black and Latino children, in the nation's largest school system.

Starting in the next school year, the city will stop giving 4-year-olds a screening test used to identify gifted and talented students, according to an outline of the plan released by the city's education department on Friday.

The program currently admits only 2,500 pupils a year out of 65,000 kindergartners citywide.

“The era of judging 4-year-olds based on a single test is over," he said in a statement. “Every New York City child deserves to reach their full potential, and this new, equitable model gives them that chance.”
About three-fourths of the roughly 16,000 students are white or of Asian descent, while Black and Latino students make up the rest — despite accounting for about two-thirds of the city's 1 million public school children.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-...519283.php

R.I.P. to the students that are educationally above others. Labeling everyone as equal and acting like they don't deserve an advanced learning ability is a shill to dumb students down.

[laininthewired]

As someone who is White and Asian American, and was enrolled in a NYC gifted and talented program, this actually further hurts students of color. Many Asian American students in my neighborhood were just as dirt poor as my family was, and even though there were few Black and Latino students in my advanced classes, they were there. God knows where they went when I moved out that shithole. Maybe they will use the saved funds to fix the public housing system that gave me pneumonia at the age of 5 ( they wont, it will be used to line the pockets of city officials ).

God save that shithole of a city.