NYC eliminating gifted and talented program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in New York and benefited from some of these programs as a white child of a very poor immigrant family. I was a minority at the school I attended back in the day.
Anecdotally, my friends who have the means to do so are leaving NYC. We all want the best education for our kids, and NYC is just not it any more. As someone up thread said - it's the non-wealthy motivated parents who lose, because they can't afford private school and will now lack access to G&T. Yay NYC.

The fact that they could expect access to something designed for a small portion of kids with innate abilities is a great demonstration of how flawed the system was.

well, a lot of parents with innate ability are exactly the type to want to live in NYC without money for private schools - academics, artists, legal aid types … that’s the slice of families NYC may lose.

[Anonymous]

I imagine that Mayor-to-Be Adams will modify this in some form. But Mayor Bill de Blasio will no doubt be elected governor, thus enabling him to work towards implanting his sometimes brilliant and sometimes meh policy goals on a state level. It’s a great time to be a New Yorker!!

[Anonymous]

So long soon AAP….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public school parents once again rudely awakened by political reality.

Maybe public school parents don't want to pay to educate immigrants who move in just for the schools better than their own kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in New York and benefited from some of these programs as a white child of a very poor immigrant family. I was a minority at the school I attended back in the day.
Anecdotally, my friends who have the means to do so are leaving NYC. We all want the best education for our kids, and NYC is just not it any more. As someone up thread said - it's the non-wealthy motivated parents who lose, because they can't afford private school and will now lack access to G&T. Yay NYC.

The fact that they could expect access to something designed for a small portion of kids with innate abilities is a great demonstration of how flawed the system was.

well, a lot of parents with innate ability are exactly the type to want to live in NYC without money for private schools - academics, artists, legal aid types … that’s the slice of families NYC may lose.

Sure, all of the artists are in NYC solely for the public schools' GT program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The war on things Asians like escalates.

tell me about it- the tax system already mines asians while leaving wealthy whites untouched, now they want take away a route to a better education b/c "equity"

And yes a tax system that relies primarily on 150k to 1M W-2 salary earners to fund the government is racist towards asians b/c Asians make up a disproportionate percentage of that population.

I didn’t even realize this until you said it, but it’s so true. Though, there are plenty of white people in that $150k-1M bucket as well

[Anonymous]

Actually, it's a war on understanding that some students have different educational needs than others. Are they going to get rid of special needs education as well, and just throw everybody into the same classroom and have the teachers "differentiate" thanks to some magical course? Good luck with that! Glad my kids are grown, and so very sorry for those that have to navigate this BS.

[Anonymous]

wow there is a lot of just straight up classic racism in this thread. incredible.

[Anonymous]

Genuinely gifted kids--who are more than two standard deviations from the IQ mean--do need special education. But this program wasn't even close to correctly identifying only kids in that category.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow there is a lot of just straight up classic racism in this thread. incredible.

Lol. Sure there is. Or maybe people are concerned for their kids educational needs. But sure. Anything you don’t like is racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow there is a lot of just straight up classic racism in this thread. incredible.

+1

Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in New York and benefited from some of these programs as a white child of a very poor immigrant family. I was a minority at the school I attended back in the day.
Anecdotally, my friends who have the means to do so are leaving NYC. We all want the best education for our kids, and NYC is just not it any more. As someone up thread said - it's the non-wealthy motivated parents who lose, because they can't afford private school and will now lack access to G&T. Yay NYC.

The fact that they could expect access to something designed for a small portion of kids with innate abilities is a great demonstration of how flawed the system was.

Exactly.

Given that NYers say that the G&T program is just to "keep white people in the city" (they do say that BTW) then you know it's fcked up.

[Anonymous]

"Let's just make the schools worse for everyone!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I imagine that Mayor-to-Be Adams will modify this in some form. But Mayor Bill de Blasio will no doubt be elected governor, thus enabling him to work towards implanting his sometimes brilliant and sometimes meh policy goals on a state level. It’s a great time to be a New Yorker!!

Hahaha, no. No one likes him, even people who agree with his policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in New York and benefited from some of these programs as a white child of a very poor immigrant family. I was a minority at the school I attended back in the day.
Anecdotally, my friends who have the means to do so are leaving NYC. We all want the best education for our kids, and NYC is just not it any more. As someone up thread said - it's the non-wealthy motivated parents who lose, because they can't afford private school and will now lack access to G&T. Yay NYC.

The fact that they could expect access to something designed for a small portion of kids with innate abilities is a great demonstration of how flawed the system was.

Exactly.

Given that NYers say that the G&T program is just to "keep white people in the city" (they do say that BTW) then you know it's fcked up.

Hmm, never heard that one, but definitely heard about "keeping middle class in the city", which is different.