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The essay is short and poorly written, even for David Frum. I live in Los Angeles and my second child just took the "gifted" exam last month, and my oldest is
by raegis 5y ago
The essay is short and poorly written, even for David Frum. I live in Los Angeles and my second child just took the "gifted" exam last month, and my oldest is already in the program. I've heard no local talk about the gifted program disappearing, yet it is all the rage in national news. The Republicans took random examples from all over the country, put them all together, and manufactured yet another "crisis". Why? Because it is a winning strategy.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoOn the flip side, though, aren't you taking one data point (the school district your kids go to in Los Angeles) and extrapolating that, because it's not happening there, it's not really happening anywhere?
- hackeraccount 5y agoNot to jump on you but isn't the weight of the argument on the side that believes nothing is happening? If something is happening then it should occur something more then zero times and I think everyone agrees that that's the case. The question is how many occurrences greater then one is a problem. A better counter to would be to say it has happened 10 times but it hasn't happened in 10,000 such programs and there have been 500 new programs started in the last year. Mind you I have no idea what the numbers are or should be on either side of this. I just think saying that you know of one instance where the program was not cancelled is not the best argument that there's nothing going on here.
- anthony_d 5y agoSo… doesn’t affect you so doesn’t matter? Ignore the data points, I’m fine?