Seattle Public Schools shuts down gifted and talented program for being oversaturated with white and Asian students
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/seattle-public-schools-shuts-down-gifted-and-talented-program/I never wanted to start my day talking about politics. (Let alone race.) But after raising two DYS kids I’ve become radicalized (or conservative-ized). You wouldn’t have caught me dead reading the NY Post. I used to read The Guardian. But they’ve come for my kids. Its us vs. them. Gifted issues are like 100 (1000 for DYS) wolves and 1 lamb voting on what’s for dinner.
Just wanted to sound a wake-up call for the gifted. We’re on our own. Society is not our friend. As I pointed out in this forum years ago, we’re on a collision course with woke.
An unsurprising situation for someone in the far right tail of the distribution of a population which votes democratically. Unfortunately, the majority usually vote for their immediate benefit(s) rather than consider that many of the benefits they enjoy are the fruits of the creativity and efforts of the few in that right tail.
Unfortunately, I don’t really see a solution - it’s difficult, even for the gifted, to make headway, when we spend our time trying to be productive for society, whilst the slightly-brighter-than-average group who hold power spend all their time plotting on how to extract more.
