https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266205/Seattle-closes-gifted-talented-schools-racial-inequities.html
Educating everyone to the lowest common denominator other than the mostly white kids of the politicians and major political donors is what Leftism is all about.
60 years of democrats promises have come to democrats saying fuck it these dark kids are too stupid to teach
Nice vote Biden fans
Doing the right thing for the wrong reason is still doing the right thing, and somehow trying to create little academies at Washington Middle School and Garfield was always stupid.
Why is it stupid? Go ahead and say your quiet part out loud, David Duke.
You vote for stupid
It was stupid because we can have decent honors courses at our neighborhood schools, just like back in “the olden days”. This is an attempt at returning to the neighborhood school model. And Garfield and Washington lost any monopoly on APP coursework years ago.
Trying to pretend somehow the Central Area was getting an educational lift from importing a bunch of “gifted” kids to those schools was pure pandering by the white liberals you gals supposedly can’t stand. Having toured Washington as a parent, it was made very clear to us that we needn’t “worry about” our child having too much to do with the “regular attendees”. These little “academies” became an extravagance which catered to the enormous egos of limousine liberals.
H is as racist as Biden
Having nothing to contribute, as usual, Race does exactly that.
My friend was in that in the 90s. He's doing fine. He was the smartest kid I knew by far. Makes six digits and lives on the Sammamish Plateau. It's not the job of smart kids to help average kids or get dragged down. They'll do better on their own. That offends idiotic SJWs though, so it must be stopped. They love to drag down the "privileged."
I don't think anyone is arguing that the kids in the program were harmed by it. But they would have done just as well receiving advanced instruction in their neighborhood school.
If they have their own class, yes. Some will be in the same class with average and SPED kids. The teacher is supposed to teach five kids with 77-83 IQs and four kids with IQs over 130. She or he will get overworked and the lower kids will fall behind. Everyone loses.
Not a lot of underperforming students are signing up to take the APP coursework in my experience.
Well, if the high school has 1500 students and 100 are in AP class that leaves them to deal with the 90+% that aren't in AP classes. Not all required classes have an AP component. That was the rationale behind talented and gifted schools. Particularly in "bad neighborhoods" and DEI schools that won't discipline students. For some reason, lot's of inner city school parents try to get their kids into private school because of the poor learning environment in the public schools. Of course you vote for the teacher union candidates who support DEI and no discipline and oppose school choice.
Garfield is a regular high school with a non-APP population. Washington is regular middle school with a non-APP population.
I made my contribution
You don't think dark children are smart
thud
That’s what’s unsaid but it’s really no surprise considering the blatant racism toward blacks I’ve read from this guy whenever he tries to make an actual point.
My hypothesis was that Chrissy couldn’t engage if I responded seriously. Clearly I was right, as usual.
Everyone knows, just like our President, “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,"
Now do how 60 years of democrats helping got us here
I actually agree with H on this one. APP was brought to Washington and Garfield because people were actively avoiding sending their kids to those schools due to the situation in that neighborhood at the time (crack gang stuff). Of course Seattle improved in the mid / late 90's and the programs at both schools elevated the schools from an academic standpoint. The money sent to those programs also attracted other kids who knew their biology class would take awesome trips while their neighborhood school biology class was lucky to have a hamster. Garfield and Wa Middle were virtually two schools in one. Yes there was mixture for extracurriculars such as gym, band, orchestra, clubs, but little else. Almost every friend I have that went the Garfield or Washington generally thinks the program was bad for the general population, with exceptions. That is they recognized Seattle / Seattle Public Schools would hold Garfield up as a beacon of excellence when in reality, a ton of students were failing. Garfield stopped reporting standardized test scores years ago, or at least last time I checked, because the results were glaring. 20 national merit scholars, a third of the school is failing. Had a classmate at UW who tutored there and he said most of the students he worked with couldn't read or write. As H pointed out the APP expanded to other schools already. Many of the people I know whose kids were in that program, honestly the kids were kind of Autistic, and struggled at college and post college when they weren't coddled by the program. If anything opening the program up to neighborhood schools likely expands the program and opportunities to black people. Lastly if being in a class with a retard makes a genius a retard, then they truly weren't a genius.
As someone who was bussed from Magnolia to S. Seattle in the early 90's to attend the "advanced" 5th grade class, I definitely could have and should have gotten that education at the school I had been attending prior.
I happened to grow up in a pretty nice area where no one really went to private school unless it was for like sports or religion.
I didn’t realize at the time how Asian my school was. South Tempe like smack dab in the middle of Motorola, microchip, Honeywell, and intel.
I ended up I think 7th in my class with a 4.0 and all AP just because some ended up figuring out how to take an extra summer class or something. Crazy.
Anyway so I went to a football banquet thing for like high achievers of various football teams around the state. Black tie event of course none of us could figure out what the fuck to do with the cummerbund before lol.
So they read off the thing while we’re up there in front of the crowd and everyone has like a 4.7 and 4.6 and some shit then it comes to me and I’m the only dickhead with a 4.0.
Point being they just grade inflate and fuck around and none of it meant shit. And this is back in 07. I’m sure it’s gotten way worse.
Garfield is known for two things- Hendrix and hoops.
White liberals fucked it up like everything else.
Quincy Jones would like a word with you.
Q could not finger roll.
Peggy Lipton proves he could still score.
You’re so fucking weird.
“Now I want to be one of the guys. Peggy Lipton! Quincy Jones, girls!
What obsession?
