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2025-10-03 18:39 UTC
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.
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@carrideen@c18.masto.host 2025-10-03 18:47
When I was a kid, one of my classmates asked me where I go on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I talked about learning Spanish, math, history, art, computer programming, creating my own projects, etc. My classmate got really sad and said she would be better in school if she got to learn what she wanted, too. By the time we were all in a good high school that had lots of options, the best students were not the "gifted" ones anymore. Best pedagogical practices shouldn't be reserved for a few students.