School District Shut Downs Gifted and Talented Program Because TOO MANY WHITE KIDS

“Oh no! Too many smart White kids. Shut it down!”

Hmm, I wonder what this school district is trying to say?

The Seattle Public Schools looked at the data involving which students made it into the gifted and talented program and were not happy.

Why?

Because it went against their worldview. So they had to put an end to it.

Just more CRT/DEI/racism at play. It seems to be popping up everywhere.

And like whack-a-mole, we need to call it out everytime it shows it’s ugly head.

Looks pretty diverse and equal to population percentages of the area.
"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.https://t.co/5zpsoouK0b

— Hunt4TheTRUTH with Dirk Thompson (@DirkHunt4Truth) April 5, 2024

New York Post reports:

Seattle Public Schools is dismantling its gifted and talented program, which administrators argued was oversaturated with white and Asian students, in favor of a more “inclusive, equitable and culturally sensitive” program.

The district began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort schools and classrooms for advanced students in the 2021-22 school year due to racial inequities, the school district notes.

The program will completely cease to exist by the 2027-28 school year, with a new enrichment-for-all model available in every school by the 2024-25 school year.

“The program is not going away, it’s getting better,” school officials said on the district website.

“It will be more inclusive, equitable and culturally sensitive.

“In particular, students who have been historically excluded will now have the same opportunities for services as every other student and get the support and enrichment they need to grow.”

The enrichment program currently only allows students who placed in the top 2 percent on standardized exams to be placed in the Highly Capable Cohort to receive enriched learning.

The students would then be sorted into one of three elementary schools, five middle schools and three high schools.

But in 2020, the Seattle school board voted to terminate the program, after a 2018 survey found that the students in the Highly Capable Cohort were 13% multiracial, 11.8% Asian, 3.7% Hispanic. And just 1.6% black.

Nearly 70% of the students were White.

“Numbers would suggest that within our city … predominantly White children are more gifted than other cultures and races, and we know that is absolutely not true,” Kari Hanson, the district’s director of student support services, told Parent Map at the time.

Under the new program, dubbed the Highly Capable Neighborhood School Model, teachers will be required to come up with individualized learning programs for all 20 to 30 of their students — a task for which, they argue, they do not have the time or resources as the district faces a $104 million budget deficit, according to the Seattle Times.

The district said it is working to provide teachers with curriculum and instruction on how to make it work, but an estimate from 2020 suggested an enrichment-for-all program would cost the district $1.1 million over the first three years.

One teacher said she worries it will become more difficult under the new program to teach math to students with a range of abilities, and that the whole-classroom approach won’t properly prepare students for Advanced Placement math and science courses.

Parents also expressed their concerns that the new model could lead to children getting overlooked.

Daniel Concannon, who was a site coordinator at Manchester School District comments on Gab about the New York Post story:

“Translation: Our own empirical data indicates that our White students are more gifted than others, but we hate White people, so we will go to war with reality itself in the name of anti-Whiteness.”