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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2021, NYC’s then mayor initiated a phase-out of all the city’s gifted and talented programs, for racial equity reasons:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-schools-to-eliminate-controversial-gifted-talented-classes/3313300/[/quote]

Massachusetts doesn’t have gifted and talented programs and their public schools always beat every other state in terms of test scores.

And why is a two year old reciting the Gettysburg Address and how does that make the child gifted?  My three year old niece could read anything without missing a word and she wasn’t gifted, just a good reader who started a few years earlier than most.   Everyone caught up with her. [/quote]

Average performance is completely irrelevant to the performance of gifted and talented students.

Some schools in MA do.

Here's a 2019 report on how kids in MA are suffering due to lack of support for G&T education

https://www.doe.mass.edu/research/reports/2019/06review.docx

The best middle school math program in MA (and possibly the nation)  is teacher Josh Frost's $30/hr classes.  How's that for equity? The schools refuse to serve kids, so public school teachers make up the gap for private pay![/quote]

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