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A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.
Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the program for new students next year.
“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius told GBH News. “There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”
A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black. More
Why not label all the other classes “Super Achievers,” give them fake participation trophies and let those actually serious about educating themselves alone? – Dr. Tar
I grajuamayted thirdest in my class in “Honor Ebonics!” 🤪
If one is stupid, all must be stupid. Equality!
As long as people get paid $15 an hour to harvest the latest iPhone crop that nature has so graciously blessed us with, I don’t see the problem with not encouraging academic excellence.
Stooopid is ar stength.
when i was in school, our advanced program was called “gifted and talented”. how would that go over with the wokies now?
Gotta be sure that there’s an adequate and permanent supply of Epsilons, don’t you know!
cant have anyone smarter than our politicians
The word “equity” has been used. Nothing will ever be equal.
Parents who care about their kids should avoid Boston Schools at all cost now regardless of the grade
“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,”
Translation: too many whites and Asians in advanced placement and no POC. We have to figure out a way to get some underachievers into the program.
It looks like a program that was circling the bowl. The plandemic gave the district the excuse to finally flush it down.
It is unlikely that in an urban school district, at-risk schools would have the space or staff to dedicate to a G/T program. It appears the program settled into schools with high and insistent parent demand and space and staff to spare.
I would also assume that qualified students would be able to commute to the nearest school that offered the program, but that can be deal breaker for many parents and students, even when transportation is offered.
With all the issues K-12 has to deal with, G/T programs will always be last priority, as well they should in cash-strapped, inefficient public systems.
I wonder how Gifted and Talented is defined and identified in the Common Core era?
It is criminal to restrict anyone from reaching toward the limits of his/her potential. Some have greater potential than others; any decent school system can handle the differences.
Fine. Cancel sports. White men can’t jump.
Just try and tell that to my oldest daughter who went thru Running Start and got her AA Degree at a local Community College at the same time she graduated from HS and was able to transfer to EWU in Cheney, Wash. and get her BA early and then worked for our local Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rogers right out of college at the age of 22 at her first job as a paid Congressional staffer for a year and a half before going to Regent University in Va. Beach and getting her Masters Degree in Govt. and a good husband and she would slap these arrogant bastards silly for their snobby elitist attitudes about education. She comes from a working class family and has earned everything on her own with little or no outside help telling her that the govt. owes her a living and an inadequate education. I am very proud of her for her achievements as a normal white female in a world ruled ruled by arrogant snobs who think that they are better than her because of who their families are and their elitist pedigrees. And believe me, she is not a liberal or a progtard.
Sad, isn’t it? The best and brightest are being destroyed.
Ironic, but sometimes the best and brightest are black, Hispanic, gay, and the like. They’re fucked, too – just so the communists infesting our government gain more power.
Meet Superintendent Brenda Cassellius:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/mediaviewer/rm1651546112/
“… more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.”
Wonder why that is? Institutional racism? Cheating? Maybe they got Biden voting machines evaluating the chillens? Just don’t make sense. 80% of the population but only 30% of the “gifted?” It, like, y’know, wobbles the mind, and shit.
Why not just give the 80 percenters PhDs and call it good? Shouldn’t even be forced to show up. Mail it to em. Or declare all of the 80 percenters “gifted” and call it a day?
The assholes always make it too difficult.
izlamo delenda est …