Mayor Bill de Blasio is phasing out New York City’s Gifted and Talented program, he announced Friday — bowing to critics who assert that the coveted model is racist.
Current students in the accelerated learning program can stay in their separate schools and classrooms to completion. But new cohorts will be completely eliminated by fall 2022, ending testing for kids as young as four.
The model — which admits roughly 2,500 kids per year — is being replaced by Brilliant NYC, a program offering students aged 8 and up chances for accelerated learning while staying in their regular classrooms with other pupils.
The Department of Education said teachers would identify kids best suited for the new initiative.
De Blasio announced the major overhaul despite being in the final months of his term in office.
The candidates to replace him, Democrat Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa, have both made clear they did not want to completely eliminate the program, which critics have attacked in part because of the higher number of white and Asian students that gain entry through the exam.
“Brilliant NYC will deliver accelerated instruction for tens of thousands of children, as opposed to a select few,” de Blasio said. “Every New York City child deserves to reach their full potential, and this new, equitable model gives them that chance.”
But critics quickly ripped Hizzoner for making the decision so late in his administration after earlier calls for him to leave it to his successor.
“This is utterly irresponsible and reprehensible,” state Sen. John Liu (D-Queens) told The Post. “This is the worst act I’ve seen under this mayor. And there have been many of them.”
Liu had previously ripped City Hall for failing to engage parents on the polarizing issue — and intensified his critique after Friday’s rollout.
“The problem here is that the Gifted and Talented program has been part of city schools for a long time,” he said. “The premise is that kids learn at different rates. Changing that policy should involve a full public discussion involving all stakeholders. Instead, he chose the easy way out — fiat in the waning days of his administration when they can’t implement anything
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Asian students account for 43% of G&T students despite being just 16.2% in the school system. They and their parents put in the hard work to get better grades ! This new Marxist deBozio model is racist ! Prove me wrong...
Messing around with peoples kids is an express route to Peaceful civil unrest!
Teachers have no rights over our children beyond what we as parents allow them.
Bidens's DOJ is weaponizing the FBI to target parents challenging Marxist indoctrination.
The FBI is turning into the East German Stasi !
The evil and sick are showing their true colors.
The only smart think this this basted did in his tenure.
Taxpayers should not be footing the bill for singing & dancing.
Include other arts nobody will pay these kids one penny for.
Its no longer 1970 when you could walk into a record company with a demo tape, casting director, audition and get work.
Those days are gone, gone, gone.
Today the corporations build the "artists" to very specifics to meet what they can sell. They don't give a shit what you learned in school or how talented you are.
For the white, Hispanic and Asian demographic they want cute young male robots, and Tits and Ass for females to sell what THE CORPERATIONs dish out.
Cant sing ? No problem, the computer takes care of that !
These gifted and talented programs are useless !!
Why won't Republican representatives stop this, oh right they just talk.
Arguing with a Big Bird democrat is like playing chess with a pidgeon. No matter how good you are the bird will knock over the pieces, shit all over the board, then strut around thinking that he won.
Turd Ferguston said...
We need Trump private schools in every city. Trump needs to pass on his knowledge to our young kids. Trump knowledge about Christianity, history, engineering, math, business, construction are unprecedented.
As one evil dictator once said;"he alone who owns the youth gains the future".
This is what happens when the lunatics escape and take over the nut farm.
Social engineering folks, dumbing-down the population from an early age is the idea.
DeBolshevik knows what he is doing for his masters.
It isn’t about the white vs. black.vs. Asian students.
This is about essentially trapping kids at age FOUR via some bullshit “exam” and setting them on a predetermined path.
I started kindergarten in 1961 at PS6M.
At the end of each school year every student above third grade was evaluated by the body of their progress and level in the basics. This determined where you were placed in the following school year.
There was no I.G./S.P. designation till the sixth grade.
This current, more rigid and early tracking seems to have emerged from fear of ‘falling behind” nations like So. Korea –a place where they all but torture their kids through their school career.
I suspect the charter school industry and textbook publishers are also behind this disgrace.
I worked for two years as a common branches per-diem in the early eighties.
There is NO way one can accurately determine future academic accomplishment at age four .When can be done is to impose personal and institutional stereotypes and prejudices on a kid and cripple his/her education before it even gets started.
I had no idea things had gotten so shortsighted in the education system. The current situation is a perversion of the concept of Public Education.
I agree completely with today’s announcement.
Rob in Manhattan
@Rob in Manhattan
Tyranny always cloaks itself in compassion.
Who cares what you agree with ?
You voted for Joe Biden who checks prices at Target by going to Walmart.
Why are concerned parents classified as domestic terrorists ?
The NYC guy who still beleives in Russia Gate is giving advice on education. LOL...
Let’s Go Brandon said...
"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" Boe Jiden
Maybe the school administrators would like us to teach their children how to roll a dube, how to steal candy bars, how to break into homes. Yes all these are absurd to teach a child but so is CRT and so is the whole interfering with parents and their children about sexual conduct etc. So to those that are part of the teachers union would you like us to teach your child these things? Are you going to be okay when your child comes home telling you how bad you are and how you should be blah blah blah?
Everybody thinks they're immune until it becomes personal.
It's time for the parents to start filing lawsuits against these school boards and teachers for misconduct with their kids and take them all to court.
Sheeple Don't you see, they want your kids to be good abiding little future Demorats
Looks like homeschooling is getting to be the only option left.
Politicians need to be reminded that they are our employees, not our 'rulers'.
Rob in Manhattan said....
This is about essentially trapping kids at age FOUR via some bullshit Marxist CRT agenda with over sexualation teachings setting them on a predetermined Welfare bootlicking path.
The school board seems to forget who works for who. Our taxes pay their salaries which makes them our employees. We don't work for them, they work for us. This is forgotten all too often
They stopped teaching this in gov't schools for a reason. Prove me wrong...
@There is NO way one can accurately determine future academic accomplishment at age four
This is how we know you took the short bus.
Typical group think, Hillary It takes a village type.
These people are disgusting...
So let me see if I understand this? If a kid works his ass of studying instead of sitting in front of a computer playing video games the end result is both kids are equal. We have a society that rewards failure. Everybody gets a trophy whether you win or lose the game so they don't feel left out. That's why we are raising a bunch of loser snowflakes.
Get rid of these filthy teachers unions.
That's the problem.
Cameras should be in every classroom. Any parent should be able to look in on their child and see what is being taught to them. Standard approved curriculum is what is needed.
Whatever happened to the PTA?
Seemed like a good idea when I was a kid.
This whole deBozio administration is ridiculous, I have not ever seen in my lifetime so many mandates pushed by the commie authority. God help us all
@“ Tyranny always cloaks itself in compassion.
Who cares what you agree with ? ”
Yes, the Tyranny is so unbearable. I can’t take it any more. What should we the Sheeple do?
What would Tucker do ? I feel so oppressed I could cry.
G and T I a special class where kids are thought the exact same crap as other kids and get lots more homework. Their parents can then brag to other parents about little Johnny in the GnT .
We need Trump private schools in every city. Trump needs to pass on his knowledge to our young kids. Trump knowledge about Christianity, history, engineering, math, business, construction are unprecedented.
(oh yea, except the Dem Radicals and their BS - now THERE is knowledgee)
I guess Rob has no kids, or if so, his kids are real winners.
Anyone knows a smart kid even at 4.
@"We need Trump private schools in every city. Trump needs to pass on his knowledge to our young kids. Trump knowledge about Christianity, history, engineering, math, business, construction are unprecedented."
He wasn't called "Dear Leader for nothing"
I think the brainwashed in North Korea makes similar claims about their guy too. But those people know nothing. They're not even Merican.
Nothing more pitiful than right wingers crying about Tyranny. Jefferson Davis and his gang did the same back in the day.
"There is NO way one can accurately determine future academic accomplishment at age four."
Lol, of course you can. Your academic potential is baked in the cake the day you're born (it's called IQ). Now, you can absolutely ruin someone and deny their potential. Say by, ohhhh, putting a smart young white kid into a classroom full of ghetto savages. But EVEN THEN, the white kid is more likely to come out ahead in the long run, because school is mostly a waste of time anyway these days.
What you can not EVER do is take someone who doesn't have the goods -- sufficient IQ -- and turn them into a brain surgeon or Shakespeare scholar. It simply can't be done, even if you spend trillions of dollars on it (which we do, to zero effect). Just like you can't turn a lap dog into a sled dog, no matter how much "schooling" you give it.
Just think of different races like different breeds of dogs, and you'll understand way more about why the world is like it is.
@"Anyone knows a smart kid even at 4. "
Says someone who knows nothing about kids. Maybe you thought your kids were the smartest in the world even though they drank a little too much lead from the water fountain.
Communism hard at work. But you folks voted for it!
Biden thinks parents should shut up and do what they're told as kids in hazmat suits learn remotely about CRT and how to pole dance.
Daily Reminder- " Let's Go Brandon!!!"
Homeschooled kids not only do better on tests and get into college more often, they also are happier later in life and are more active in their communities according to a number of studies. Educate your kids!
Yuri Bezmenov warned the US decades ago. But no one listened.
Public schools and public restrooms are having more and more in common.
Prove Me Wrong...
A “dumbed” down group of people are much easier to fool and control.
Putting your child in government schools is wilful negligence.
And they called Trump a tyrant. Unbelievable
The ten most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm Boe Jiden and I'm here to help your children."
- Ronald Reagan
Please explain to me why the state would want a smart poor class?
Man, Little Jimmy has a rough time of it.
If I had a kid I'd home-school him and then have him learn a valuable skill or trade.
War on anyone who dare speak up against the party at this point.
I would hate be an astronaut rocketing to Mars with WOKE math navagating.
Amtrak Joe turned out to be cattle car Joe.
This is a major major problem that parents are gonna have to take to the local state boards and either demand change and eliminate common core and all forms of crt or plain old vote out all the mayor's and state governors and replace them with conservative leaning governors and mayor's ! It's becoming a fight that will end in our kids loosing and that's the real problem!!!!!
It’s called Communism.
@“ Lol, of course you can. Your academic potential is baked in the cake the day you're born (it's called IQ).”
Are you for real? That type of junk science has been discredited decades ago.
That type of junk science has been discredited decades ago.
Tell that to the sperm bank junkie.
Nothing more pitiful than right wingers crying about Tyranny. Jefferson Davis and his gang did the same back in the day.
Forgot George Washington. Your education and your IQ are really low.
Come, entertain us some more with your wisdom, put your indoctrination on display.
THE WORST MAYOR ON NEW YORK HISTORY!!!!
Rob in Manhattan is talking down to everyone from his Central Park penthouse, neoliberalism in a nut shell !
Turd Fergerson said...
Would love to see an investigation into teachers Unions.
Really impressed reading so many comments taking a political axis on this issue. Folks, there is no need to pretend hiding a serious scandal in order to gain political points all along. What is evil should be denounced as what it is. Period.
This is why my religion is FREEDOM ! Home school your kids...
If I had kids in school today, I'd never let them go to a public school.
This a prime example of why my child goes to a charter school where they say the Pledge of Allegiance everyday. And the school instills in the children patriotism and love of the country. And to be leaders and contributing members of society.
Private schools people! What happened to free speech? FBI and doj need to stay out of parents choices with their kids schools.
Thanks , Bill .
Gifted doesn’t just mean accelerated. Gifted kids actually have different learning needs and often don’t do well in a regular classroom. And many gifted boys aren’t recognized because the school system falsely equates good behavior with intelligence. But bored kids act out, especially boys.
How do we solve wealth inequality?
Left: "Easy, make everybody poor."
How do we solve educational inequality?
Left: "Easy, make everybody poorly educated."
Blasio trying to destroy as much as he can before he leaves office.
I heard Attorney General Merrick Garland, who recently raised the specter of involving the FBI against parents who express anger over CRT and other issues at school board meetings.
Garland’s daughter is married to Xan Tanner, a cofounder of Panorama Education, which issues surveys to students asking if they are feeling “genderfluid,” and asks, “How confident are you that students at your school can have honest conversations with each other about race?”
At least one district’s contract says all of the personal student data is sent to the company — which is funded by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — under a loophole that circumvents a requirement for parental consent by counting the for-profit company as a “school official,” not an outside vendor.
So basically intelligent kids are getting punished for their skin color, what will happen to the gifted Black/Brown kids in these programs, what a shame.
I am hispanic with a very hispanic last name. And I was in gifted and talented program 3rd grade through high school. It was the only thing that kept me interested. It was amazing and hope it stays alive.
My child was in the G&T program. We studied and took the test.
Yes we’re Asian.
We failed the first time and studied more and passed the second round.
We did tutoring, studying, and took the effort to push our child. It was a great program and nothing racially segregated about the program.
Parents of gifted students will re-locate to a red state. End of story.
They wanted Garland to be a lifetime SCOTUS appointee. Think about that
They wanted Garland to be a lifetime SCOTUS appointee. Think about that
Only if you want to have nightmares!
In other news
"City orders educators to find the thousands of students ‘missing’ from schools "
https://nypost.com/2021/10/09/city-orders-educators-to-find-the-thousands-of-students-missing-from-schools/
Gifted and Talented huh?
I do have reservations about these programs because I do think they create racism. I think its more about "protecting" (mostly asian) kids now from actually going to school with black and Hispanic kids. I mean let's face it, nyc in general is now most "minority" dominated. I think only 49 percent of the city is white and most of them live in the upper east side or staten Island. And just how many of them actually have kids? So the school system is probably made up of only 25 percent actual white students. But let's look at this, the high school where most Asian kids are closest to, they don't even attend. Flushing high school is only composed of like 10 percent of Asian kids and the rest are either black or Hispanic. Meanwhile, Francis Lewis high school is just as close to Jamaica as it is to flushing. But Meanwhile, 70 percent of Francis Lewis high school is made up of Asian kids and even has after-school "Chinese programs" catering to them. So let's just look at the racism in the schools as a whole. I bet if they put more black kids into Francis Lewis high school, the Asian kids would all be pulled out and put into a "safer" school to "protect" them. Even when I was younger growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood, they used to have special busses to bus the black kids in from Jamaica but when that same school was taken over by the Asian population, those busses stopped coming just so they can cater to the asians. Very racist school districts and very segregated anymore if you ask me. Let the asians go to schools with the black kids just like how they forced the white kids back in the day to go to school with more black kids. Why do are whites only the ones who have to "learn" how not to be "racist"?
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.” ~ Thomas Sowell
@“ Parents of gifted students will re-locate to a red state. End of story.”
Highly unlikely, as the education system in those states is abysmal. Part of the successful right wing strategy of keeping their voters as dumb as dead cats.
@“ Parents of gifted students will re-locate to a red state. End of story.”
Highly unlikely, as the education system in those states is abysmal. Part of the successful right wing strategy of keeping their voters as dumb as dead cats.
@"We failed the first time and studied more and passed the second round.
We did tutoring, studying, and took the effort to push our child."
This basically shows what a farce the G&T system is. It's not for kids who are particularly smart or talented in any way. It's for kids whose parents game the system like this guy. Easy for kids to pass the test if they already pretty much know the answers already. So much for high IQ.
Having pulled my daughter out of one of these programs in our local elementary school I know exactly what it is. They study the same stuff as the other kids, but they get a hell of a lot more home work. I've asked the teacher why the excessive homework? They say it's because the parents keep demanding it.
It's basically robot school.
Kid in => Robot out.
@"I do have reservations about these programs because I do think they create racism."
Yes it is racist. At the same time like most parents, I wouldn't want my kid going to school with predominately black kids. I want my kids to learn and not to be bullied. Better have them go to a school with more Asians and a better mix of races. The more Asians in the school, the better the school. Just have to watch out that your kid doesn't turn into a robot.
@"“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.” ~ Thomas Sowell"
I believe he was referring to himself in this quote.
@"They wanted Garland to be a lifetime SCOTUS appointee. Think about that"
We got some alcoholic rapist instead. That makes two in the corporate side of the bench.
RE: We need Trump private schools in every city. Trump needs to pass on his knowledge to our young kids. Trump knowledge about Christianity, history, engineering, math, business, construction are unprecedented.
Also known as the ten second class.
Oh the Tyranny of it all. I feel so repressed by the lack of GnT that I could cry.
What would Tucker do? What advise does Q have for me?
Must I flee to Mississippi?
@"I do have reservations...
All schools should be safe for ALL students no matter what race they are you bigot fool.
Put Asians on an island = Japan or Taiwan
Put Whites on an island = Iceland
Put blacks on an island = Haiti
Keep denying reality, liberal ass gaskets
The same reason they allowed a CBS smoke shop to open up on the corner of 30th Avenue and 42 Street in Astoria right down the block from PS 70
Demorats made it All about equity yet not about what someone truly has earned or deserves through their own hard work and education.
What isn't "racist" these days?
Anonymous said...
Nothing more pitiful than right wingers crying about Tyranny. Jefferson Davis and his gang did the same back in the day.
Saturday, October 09, 2021
Unless it's a Lefty screeching about how "Fashest" Trump was.
@“ Parents of gifted students will re-locate to a red state. End of story.”
Highly unlikely, as the education system in those states is abysmal. Part of the successful right wing strategy of keeping their voters as dumb as dead cats.
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Um, low intelligence has long been the hallmark of Commiecrats. No finer example exists than the current illegal regime in DC-brain dead idiots one and all "voted in" by their brainless sheeple.
I particularly like the comment by one person who alluded to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, as a Republican. Sorry Dummy. Jefferson Davis was a member of the democrat party. Try reading something instead of watching liberal media.
@“ Anonymous said...
I particularly like the comment by one person who alluded to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, as a Republican. Sorry Dummy”
Sorry dummy, there is no such comment on this thread. Go back on your special Ed class.
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