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The biggest fallacy is that gifted students would attend regular public school classes if gifted program is unavailable. In reality students with wealthy parent

The biggest fallacy is that gifted students would attend regular public school classes if gifted program is unavailable. In reality students with wealthy parents will transfer to private school, middle class will move to suburbs and few students with poor parents (disproportionally people of color) will stay in shitty regular school. Only last group prospects and education will be damaged long term and overall numbers involved is not really enough to have material positive influence on overall level of students in Boston public school. “My kids are dumb. I do not want other parents kids to get ahead only because they are smart”

akhilcacharya 6y ago
I’m skeptical that many people care to do a drastic intervention like this. I was in AG but if I wasn’t I would have gone to the same school. (If it matters, I grew up Asian.)
bob33212 6y ago
What do you tell a poor black gifted student? "Sorry friend, no gifted classes for you the gifted classes were making the administration look bad. That is more important than your accademic career."
- A12-B 6y ago
  Why do you assume this is about making the school look bad, and not that there might be some serious issue if black/hispanic people are not performing as well as others. They are launching an investigation into the matter, not removing the advanced classes. Did you misread the word 'suspend'?
burnthrow 6y ago
> few students with poor parents (disproportionally people of color) will stay in shitty regular school. I'm white and this was me. If it weren't for these programs, I'd either be in jail or working retail/fast food. Congratulations on provoking me, I'm going to take a long hiatus from HN now and go build something. I've changed my password to a randomly generated (ephemeral) string on this and my main account; I won't be back to contribute.
NikolaeVarius 6y ago
Goddamn, its weird how its so common to just insult vast swaths of people, under the guise of helping them. I went to one of those shitty city regular public schools and I managed to test into honor schools for Jr High

akhilcacharya 6y ago

I’m skeptical that many people care to do a drastic intervention like this. I was in AG but if I wasn’t I would have gone to the same school. (If it matters, I grew up Asian.)

bob33212 6y ago

What do you tell a poor black gifted student? "Sorry friend, no gifted classes for you the gifted classes were making the administration look bad. That is more important than your accademic career."

A12-B 6y ago
Why do you assume this is about making the school look bad, and not that there might be some serious issue if black/hispanic people are not performing as well as others. They are launching an investigation into the matter, not removing the advanced classes. Did you misread the word 'suspend'?

burnthrow 6y ago

> few students with poor parents (disproportionally people of color) will stay in shitty regular school. I'm white and this was me. If it weren't for these programs, I'd either be in jail or working retail/fast food. Congratulations on provoking me, I'm going to take a long hiatus from HN now and go build something. I've changed my password to a randomly generated (ephemeral) string on this and my main account; I won't be back to contribute.

NikolaeVarius 6y ago

Goddamn, its weird how its so common to just insult vast swaths of people, under the guise of helping them. I went to one of those shitty city regular public schools and I managed to test into honor schools for Jr High