I worked with gifted black and brown kids in Washington, D.C. in the mid-90s and I always find these attempts, almost always in the name of racial equity, to be such a slap in the face to those kids who finally got to feel normal for once in their life. They NEEDED to be around
Zohran Mamdani plans to phase out Gifted and Talented program in NYC elementary schools https://t.co/UtuTxmjo2G
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@glukianoff I'm a huge supporter of G & T, but this proposed phase out is at the KINDERGARTEN level. I think many would agree assessing the G & T levels of kindergarteners doesn't really make any sense.
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@DavGreenberg It’s coming for every level. That’s what they did in DC first and now it’s just banned entirely and it’s criminal.
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@glukianoff It’s not just about any kind of race I care about smart kids getting to be pushed further but I understand what you mean my daughter’s in gift in talented what will happen is though they can afford it with us polar kids that just means the public school system will become more
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@glukianoff The Algorithm on several platforms does not allow your point of view to be discussed without being labeled. Your use of "gifted black and brown kids" is bordering on hate. They are all black. No other words are allowed. Identity Politics can not exist if open and honest
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@glukianoff There are many precedents in history where regimes or elites have suppressed education, discouraged intellectual development, or undermined meritocratic institutions to maintain control, to keep a population subordinate or stagnant, or to enforce conformity. This is one of them.
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@glukianoff Ivy league schools returned to the SAT because their research found that using the test provided better access to the underprivileged students
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@glukianoff Such a good point, the gifted programs normalize being smart, where as in other groups it can be something you need to hide to normal
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@glukianoff Thank you so much for speaking out. This is a huge passion of mine and the mental and physical health effects of not getting emotional needs met in these children is now well researched.
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@glukianoff To those claiming that this is only the kindergarten program: phased approaches in K12 always work like that. You start at the bottom applicable grade and roll it up each year - this is step one of ending the programs entirely.
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@glukianoff This is why public school admins in NYC put their kids in private school or move to Long Island.
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@glukianoff According to Grok: Lewis Terman, in his 1915 paper "The Mental Hygiene of Exceptional Children," was the first to systematically assert that high intelligence (measured via early IQ testing) constitutes a special need in education. He argued that bright children require tailored
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@glukianoff My child was identified as gifted in Middle School. I was like "Great, what school programs are available?" None... these give the test, but the schools have stopped funding gifted programs. This is California
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@glukianoff Too bad they want to engineer outcomes rather than understand everyone is unique as their outcomes in life
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@glukianoff It’s actually holding back society at large when you put restraints on someone’s natural & god given abilities whether it’s applying equity in education, or in the workplace.
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@glukianoff To instill societal compliance, Communists must ensure their citizenry is ignorant. It is through ignorance that people can be misled into believing what others tell them. Communists must kill curiosity and the will to learn in the gifted, lest they later attempt to subvert
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@glukianoff Makes it all the more easy for them to say, “see, American kids are dumb, that’s why we need to import more foreign workers!”
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@glukianoff This is exhausting. If you were remotely intellectually curious or a critical thinker you would have read the whole article. And TBH...Every single parent believes their child is gifted and then school placement becomes a competition and not anything based in reality.
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@glukianoff Our education system is tuned to work between 85 and 115 IQ. We can't do any better without splitting things into tracks and isolating the low performing and high performing into their own. Of the two, a lower performing track is most needed. In many urban areas, 30% or more
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@glukianoff I fear that if you have to explain this to someone, their soul has already been long corrupted.
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@glukianoff Unlike what everyone thinks what students learn in school is discipline and hard work. Hi IQ people can get away with everything without any hard work and therefore they gain very little from usual education system.
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@glukianoff Gifted student programs are a solution to many modern challenges. A common thread in recent politically motivated violent attacks is highly intelligent young men who’ve lost their way. Every child, regardless of intellectual ability, deserves a chance to be challenged and
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@glukianoff This is 2025. There's no need for any programs like this. The only reason why anyone thinks we need them is because of their failure to address the systemic problems within the black community, and to some degree, the Puerto Rican community. Enough with these race-based programs.
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@glukianoff My kid is a brilliant, creative C student. He is a crucial part of his Pentathalon team because the team must have A, B and C students. He is loving it and doing the after school sessions twice a week for the entire year because he loves the challenge, sharing what he already
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@glukianoff @baseballcrank As a child I was in a G&T program at school. I think it was a bit of a lifeline for me at the time. I was in a family that didn’t value that aspect of who I was. If anything, they picked on me for being “book smart�� and for not excelling at the things they valued such as athletic
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