GATE in California served no material purpose except to spend money and, most likely, inventory civilian human capital (the G part) for future national security

GATE in California served no material purpose except to spend money and, most likely, inventory civilian human capital (the G part) for future national security recruitment. At the time, I didn't understand why I was pulled out of class except to discover how quickly I could arrange triangles and be plopped in front of a piano like a just-add-water circus monkey expected to be an instant concert pianist with this one weird trick. The war on merit is to make it all about victimhood. Forced busing also ruined public schools because more affluent parents pulled their kids put and put them in private schools, and the number of public schools decreased dramatically.