If You’re Racing to the Lowest Possible Outcome

[Weatherman2020]

You just might be a Seattle City School Administer.

Last week the Seattle School Board voted to partner with a nonprofit to change and (they hope) improve the curriculum of Washington Middle School. Unfortunately, these changes are coming at the expense of the Highly Capable Cohort (HCC), an extremely popular gifted program that lets the students who score the highest on standardized tests participate in a specialized classes. There, they study material several grade levels higher than the ordinary curriculum.

The program has historically been dominated by white and Asian students, and this hasn’t set well with some folks who want to see more diversity in advanced programs. But rather than improve access, some school leaders—including Superintendent Denise Juneau—have decided that the whole program is a form of “redlining” and are trying to kill off the whole thing, over the objections of their own customers.

Seattle's School System Wants to Dismantle Its Gifted Programs. This Is Why School Choice Matters.

 

[bluzman61]

You just might be a Seattle City School Administer.

Last week the Seattle School Board voted to partner with a nonprofit to change and (they hope) improve the curriculum of Washington Middle School. Unfortunately, these changes are coming at the expense of the Highly Capable Cohort (HCC), an extremely popular gifted program that lets the students who score the highest on standardized tests participate in a specialized classes. There, they study material several grade levels higher than the ordinary curriculum.

The program has historically been dominated by white and Asian students, and this hasn’t set well with some folks who want to see more diversity in advanced programs. But rather than improve access, some school leaders—including Superintendent Denise Juneau—have decided that the whole program is a form of “redlining” and are trying to kill off the whole thing, over the objections of their own customers.

Seattle's School System Wants to Dismantle Its Gifted Programs. This Is Why School Choice Matters.

This doesn't surprise me one bit. Seattle is quickly becoming a sh*thole. Thanks, Dems!

 

[DGS49]

In EVERYTHING, the top tier of yoots will advance best when CHALLENGED through competition with the best competitors.

This applies to playground basketball, where the best 13-year-olds are playing against high school kids, to soccer camps where the players are grouped by skill level, ignoring age, to classrooms where the top students are segregated and competing against each other.

American "Black" people have an AVERAGE IQ of 85. In order for a Black kid to merit inclusion in a group with average IQ of say 125, he would have to be almost four standard deviations above the mean within his racial peer group. In layman's terms, that is one kid in a hundred.

So "Blacks" are going to be under-represented in highly-selective groups. It ain't racism or bigotry or anything of the sort. And to include sub-standard Black kids just for the sake of window dressing would frustrate the chosen Blacks and impair the progress of the group.

Government action at its best.