Zohran Mamdani Wants to Scale Back Gifted Programs in NYC Schools
“Supporters of the proposal say eliminating gifted programs will reduce racial inequities in the classroom”
Of course, he wants to do this. If you acknowledge that some kids are gifted, then everyone is not equal.
News Nation reports:
Zohran Mamdani seeks to scrap gifted programs in NYC schools
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to scale back gifted programs in New York City’s public schools over racial inequities, a concerning move for some education experts.
Maud Maron, co-founder of the nonprofit Place NYC, told NewsNation’s “On Balance” the programs should be expanded, not cut.
“The gifted and talented program has been so wildly successful because it represents the kind of high-quality education that parents want. We should expand it. We should keep it, and we should expand it, not get rid of it,” Maron said.
Maron ran as a Republican in last year’s race for Manhattan district attorney against Democratic incumbent Alvin Bragg.
Mamdani has said he would remove testing for gifted-and-talented programs in kindergarten, as Bill de Blasio tried to do when he was mayor, in an effort to eliminate racial disparities.
Supporters of the proposal say eliminating gifted programs will reduce racial inequities in the classroom, while critics say it would do more harm than good.
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In search of the lowest common denominator…
Mandami is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, one of the elite NYC public high schools. IOW, Hizzonah da Mayuh does not want current NYC high school students to have access to the education that NYC public schools provided him.
Bronx Science is for me, not for thee says Hizzonah da Mayuh. Pulling up the drawbridge…
The third-worldification of the United States continues…
I’m glad I’m old.
Seems to me that if minority students are not qualifying for the program in numbers proportional to their population, the solution is to find out why they’re not qualifying and address that, not to change the qualifications or eliminate the program.
Otherwise, aren’t they suggesting that minority students can’t meet the standards because they are minorities and wouldn’t that be (gasp) racist? Just asking.
This story really doesn’t seem to have progressed beyond what it was when you last exposed it. Perhaps because there’s only so much an idiot politician can expound upon a stupid idea.
This is nothing new. De Blasio tried the same thing, but met with massive resistance from parents. Presumably Mamdani will run into the same obstacle.
For affluent families with gifted children, this change would be annoying but not insurmountable. For the poor, and even just non-affluent, just the opposite. Reduce racial inequities? LOL. It erases opportunities for most minorities.
My NYC artists cousin and her husband are, not surprisingly, yellow dog Democrats. Their daughter did not get admitted to one of the elite NYC public high schools, so they put her in a private school.
As Brother Mouson stated in The Wire, “You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right? &%#(@$ with a library card.” Gotta keep them on the plantation at any cost.
what is nice is that the left knows that even at those young ages
their eggs are rotten