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2025-10-03 18:31 UTC
As a former "gifted" elementary school student, I'm 100% in favor of Mamdani's proposal to end the gifted programs in early public education. When you're separating 6 and 7yo's and saying "These kids are special and high-achieving," you are selecting almost entirely for kids with learning support at home, and allocating extra resources to them, while draining resources from the kids with less support.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/nyregion/mamdani-schools-gifted-and-talented-program.html
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@carrideen@c18.masto.host 2025-10-03 18:39
NYC public schools work extra hard to make sure white upper-class kids get lots of special advantages so their parents won't put them in private schools. In return, those parents will pay into a school's PTA for resources. So you'll have one elementary school with computers, teaching assistants, great libraries, big playgrounds, and gifted programs, five blocks from an elementary school that doesn't have enough seats or A/C.