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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s some nuance here.  DiBlasio is a straight-up communist, no doubt, and watering down the standards for the test-in high schools to achieve racial balance is the worst sort of leveling-down equity.  That’s destructive and coming to a school district near you.

But the NYC G&T stuff for elementary is beyond absurd.  The tests are eminently prepable at that age, and the standards are insufficient to identify actually gifted children.  It merely created a parallel school system that allowed UMC parents to remain in public in the City, and resulted in a dog-eat-dog knife fight where if your kid didn’t make the cut, you were either out 50k a year for private or became a part of the bridge-and-tunnel crowd.  The discussions on youbemom.com circa 2008 were fascinating, and IMO illustrated the pathology of that system.

In my (admittedly unsavory) opinion, all the G&T program in NYC did was allow the rich to maintain left-wing luxury beliefs while being insulated from the consequences, which were left for other people’s kids. [/quote]

G&T is ~2% of the total NYC school population. By no means is that a parallel school system. [/quote]

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