08 April 2024

You Will Not Be Allowed to Succeed

Equity - Everyone must be at the same level of failure. Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students, with consultant branding black parents who complained about move 'tokenized' | Daily Mail Online

I can't even pretend to be shocked by this. Everyone must be held down to the same level of average. Or below average. If you're white or Asian and you disagree with this action, you're racist. If you're black, you've internalized the racism. Or something.

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.

But that must be because of racism, and if you disagree, you are also racist. How dare you have kids who perform at a level above anyone with a double-digit IQ! (In your best Gretta T. voice: How dare you!)

Karen Stukovsky, who has three students in the gifted program said, 'You can only do so much differentiation.'

'You have some kids who can barely read and some kids who are reading Harry Potter in first grade or kindergarten. How are you going to not only get those kids up to grade level and also challenge those kids who are already way above grade level?'

It may be time to abandon Seattle public schools. It may actually be time to abandon Seattle, but that's a story for another day.

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