{"id":154295,"date":"2021-01-14T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-hates-gifted-schooling-because-it-exposes-his-failures\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:14:11","slug":"de-blasio-hates-gifted-schooling-because-it-exposes-his-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-hates-gifted-schooling-because-it-exposes-his-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio hates gifted schooling because it exposes his failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio hates gifted schooling because it exposes his failures<\/strong>”
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As things weren\u2019t tumultuous enough for Gotham\u2019s parents, the Department of Education announced Tuesday night that this year\u2019s test for the city\u2019s coveted Gifted & Talented programs would be the last.<\/p>\n

The academic year has been disastrous. Remote learning is lousy, and as The Post reported recently, for a quarter of students at many city schools, it\u2019s no learning at all, since they simply haven\u2019t been showing up.<\/p>\n

A twice-delayed reopening was followed by more closings and partial reopenings on the basis of unscientific metrics. State tests haven\u2019t been scheduled, and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has openly hoped that President-elect Joe Biden will let New York skirt them. Middle-school admissions have moved to a ridiculous all-lottery system.<\/p>\n

So, of course, now is the perfect time to rearrange the only functioning part of the Big App<\/a>le\u2019s public-education system: gifted education.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a big defender of the test for gifted programs. I\u2019ve written in these pages about the foolishness of giving 4-year-olds a test that can decide their future for years. But the idea of scrapping the test and replacing it with . . . something to be determined later is yet another way to shake parents\u2019 faith in the school system. The mayor and his schools chancellor hate the G&T programs; once they remove the test, it becomes far easier to simply eliminate the classes.<\/p>\n

Why do they hate these programs?<\/p>\n

The G&T programs expose the dirty secret of New York City public schools: Parents want their kids in these programs so badly because the majority of our schools are mediocrities, if not catastrophes. In 2019, 47.4 percent of city students in grades three to eight scored at the proficient level on the English-language assessment; in math, the figure was 45.6 percent.<\/p>\n

Put another way: The majority of the city\u2019s students aren\u2019t proficient in English and math. That\u2019s pathetic and an embarrassment. And it\u2019s much harder to fix a failed general<\/a>-education system than simply remove G&T programs that expose how dysfunctional the rest of the system has become.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve already heard from many parents planning their departure from New York over this question. They believe that scrapping the test can\u2019t but prefigure the end of the programs as a whole. They don\u2019t trust the mayor or his schools chancellor.<\/p>\n

No, this isn\u2019t about parental arrogance. Parents largely aren\u2019t running away from the city on the belief that their kids are so super-gifted, they need special classes. Rather, parents are leaving because even if their kids are on the right side of the state tests, the overall quality of general education doesn\u2019t do right by kids.<\/p>\n

Parents complain that the curriculum is absurdly easy and doesn\u2019t challenge their kids at all. These parents don\u2019t think their kids are Little Einsteins. But they see their kids breeze through homework, if the school even gives any, and not have to work hard at all. G&T education gave parents the possibility of rigor and of their children learning how to work hard.<\/p>\n

These programs maintain the principle of competitiveness, which is both a human reality and a crucible of excellence. Hizzoner and Carranza are openly opposed to all of this.<\/p>\n

We have another year left under de Blasio, but there is no evidence that any of the candidates with a chance of winning is willing to admit that our school system is broken. None has vowed to do the hard work necessary to fix it. They all seem fine with the kind of mediocrity bizarrely championed under the de Blasio administration.<\/p>\n

After an impossibly difficult year, elected officials should be giving people a reason to stay, to have hope in this city. People won\u2019t wait around to see what absurd metric the bumbling mayor introduces for G&T admissions. Instead, many will finally face the difficult truth: In many other parts of the nation, gifted curricula are simply called \u201cschool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @Karol<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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