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Seattle has shuttered its gifted and talented programs because the school board determined they had too many white and Asian students.
The district began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort schools and classrooms for advanced students in the 2021-22 school year because they found it had too many racial inequities. School bosses said black and Hispanic students were underrepresented at the schools.
According to Seattle Public School data, of the highly capable students in the 2022-23 school year, 52 percent were white, 16 percent were Asian and 3.4 percent were black.
During a January 22, 2020, school board meeting, parents of black students in the Highly Capable Cohort asked the board to consider finding ways to incorporate students of color into the gifted program rather than shut it down.
Then school board vice president Chandra Hampson slammed those parents saying, 'this is a pretty masterful job at tokenizing a really small community of color within the existing cohort.'
All students are screened every single year in grades one through eight for an ability to learn at an accelerated pace. This has been the practice at SPS for the past three years.
For years if a student didn’t get placed in the highly capable program, Seattle parents could pay to get their student privately tested, which often resulted in higher test scores. That meant families with the money to pay for private testing often got into cohort schools. The district also typically screened students on a Saturday, disadvantaging families who didn’t know or who didn’t have transportation.
Highly capable classes also didn’t help all of their students as much as parents believed because some kids missed out on foundational skills, especially in math, SPS’ math department found.
They found evidence that some learners only got a surface level understanding of other subjects, as well, because teachers moved so quickly through the curriculum.
originally posted by: frogs453
.. had a hard time finding any quotes in your link that stated they wanted under qualified kids to be allowed in.
Hmm.. had a hard time finding any quotes in your link that stated they wanted under qualified kids to be allowed in.
originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: FlyersFan
If I had published this topic, I would have immediately received accusations of Russian propaganda from you)))
originally posted by: frogs453
We've certainly heard of wealthy children benefiting from additional resources that many do not have to gain advantage over them in higher level education.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
Advanced learning or gifted schools are points of competition with parents , because a child with a K-12 schooling from an advanced learning center is way further ahead in getting into elite colleges.
originally posted by: frogs453
.. had a hard time finding any quotes in your link that stated they wanted under qualified kids to be allowed in.
So wealthy parents send their kids to private prep schools at night or weekends to teach a child how to prepare for the screenings of the gifted school’s entrance requirements.
As well wealthy parents pay for private screenings which are bias to the money they get in qualifying kids as “ gifted “
It’s a pay to play & black parents don’t have the money on average to dance their kids through all the fluffing.
I find your thoughts to be bigoted at the minimum & racist in nature.
If black or Mexican kids had wealthy parents , then they too could be qualified as “ special “
They said this - "parents of black students in the Highly Capable Cohort asked the board to consider finding ways to incorporate students of color into the gifted program rather than shut it down"
That's bringing in students of color, simply because they are of color, and not because they are qualified. That's bringing in unqualified students just to bring up the quota.
originally posted by: Justoneman
a reply to: Boogerpicker
I will. How are we going to get them to wake up if we just do them like they did us when they were in a position to lord over a peon under them.
Advanced learning or gifted schools are points of competition with parents , because a child with a K-12 schooling from an advanced learning center is way further ahead in getting into elite colleges.
So wealthy parents send their kids to private prep schools at night or weekends to teach a child how to prepare for the screenings of the gifted school’s entrance requirements.
As well wealthy parents pay for private screenings which are bias to the money they get in qualifying kids as “ gifted “
It’s a pay to play & black parents don’t have the money on average to dance their kids through all the fluffing.
I find your thoughts to be bigoted at the minimum & racist in nature.
If black or Mexican kids had wealthy parents , then they too could be qualified as “ special