The Gifted & Talented program gave thousands of Black and Brown kids a real shot to excel. That’s progress we should be building on, not tearing down. Expand it to more children, not fewer. And let’s be real, you went to a specialized high school, @ZohranKMamdani . Why take away
Zohran Mamdani plans to phase out Gifted and Talented program in NYC elementary schools https://t.co/UtuTxmjo2G
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Mamdani makes 6 figures, comes from wealth, yet lives in a $2,300 rent-stabilized apartment meant for those in need. And now he wants to get rid of gifted and talented programs for New Yorkers.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Zohran Mamdani's millionaire parents sent him to a private elementary school where tuition is now over $63,000 a year for 6th graders.
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@ericadamsfornyc @cassandravanpoe @ZohranKMamdani Socials are people who got on and want to pull the ladder up behind them
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@ericadamsfornyc @KendallGPace @ZohranKMamdani He that taketh, doeth to maintain his own status and power.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani socialism relies on its citizens becoming reliant on the government. that begins with inferior education.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Eric Adams: Zohran’s wealthy parents spent $70K/yr to go to Manhattan private schools. Of course, he’ll cancel any chance for public school peasants to get an equal public school education. Under Zohran, all New Yorkers are equal, but Zohran’s cronies are more equal than you.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Because communists hold a deep resentment towards those with ability. Every example of success is a personal affront to their fragile sense of self.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Adams gets it. The Gifted & Talented program isn’t elitism—it’s a lifeline for Black, Asian, and Latino kids whose parents clawed their way out of the system Mamdani wants to rebuild. But let’s cut deeper: Mamdani’s plan isn’t about equity. It’s about control. His billionaire
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani so what you are saying is, by default, the 99% of the kids who DIDN'T take G&T weren't given a chance to excel? That is both BS and not the G&T brag you think it is
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani nyc public schools are 85% minority this policy will do nothing but hurt the most talented minority students in nyc
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani I grew up on the other side of the wrong side of the wrong side of the tracks. A very crabs-in-a-barrel place where anyone who tried to lift themselves up was mercilessly torn down. I got into a gifted & talented program that opened up a whole new world for me. It was by
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Study what these DSA clowns did to Lowell HS in SF and the plethora of other fumbling bumbling initiatives that have brought ruin to SF Unified School District. NYC People, You will reap what you sow allowing DSA to run your city. Just look at the doom loop SF has been in.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani To lower the overall proficiency standards to make it look like children are doing better than they are. It’s awful. The top 10% will opt for private, charter, catholic or home school.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Because he doesn’t care about your kids’ future. He only cares about the future of is!amic children. The only thing New Yorkers need to know is that man hates you, hates America, and his only purpose is to get a position of power to aid in the is!amic takeover of our country.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Either you do not know the Facts or you are deliberately spreading misinformation. Mamdani wants to phase out G&T until 3rd Grade. At that point admission could be based on the child’s skills, not the advantage of their Parentage.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani It’s his DSA/Marxist ideology that doesn’t permit specialized opportunity. Fairness has no meaning. Merit is not a measurement. It’s an effort to use the concept equity as an aspiration, denying special talents.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani He attended the PRIVATE Bank Street School for Children as a Middle School student that prepared him to be able to attend the elite specialized Bronx High School of Science. The tuition for the Bank Street School is $66,147 per year. This guy is such a fcking hypocrite. He wants
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani This pos is an Islamist & communist. To him, equity = equal very poor outcomes. He wants low ed, Hitler youth. It's already happening in NY schools. He'll excellerate NY becoming Nazi. Trust funder, grifter, terrorist loving, unqualified fraud.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Why vote for that man. Curtis Sliwa is the only commonsense candidate on the ticket. This is his time to shine. Let's get this done. 🇺🇲
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani He’s completely out of touch with NYC public schools. He went to private schools and had he not been rejected by Stuyvesant and gotten into Science, he would have continued with private schools. He is and always will be nothing but a nepo baby.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Exactly, @NYCMayor! The Gifted and Talented Program needs to be expanded not teared down! 👏👏👏
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani He wants EVERYONE dumb, defeated, and poor. I'm not nuts about you, Adams. You're a liberal demon, but Mamdami is the devil!
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Put your support behind Curtis Sliwa and help defeat the destroyer of dreams, Mamdani!
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@ericadamsfornyc @kjune65 @ZohranKMamdani True socialist. Gifted program changed my life. This is one of the many reasons I vow to destroy socialism.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Well, that is what "socialism" is, Mayor Adams. But, New Yorkers have yet to experience it. And, it is toxic for our future. Dumbing down the population to the lowest achiever is not going to help anyone. Or, our country.
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@ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani For the same reasons politicians fight school choice, then choose to send their kids to private. Happens in NY, happens in Chicago...happens here in Cali-- right Newsom? RULES FOR THEE, not for me. @CAgovernor
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