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> That... is the same as it has been for a long long time. It really was not, at least in Seattle. Seattle had a pretty good gifted program for a very long tim
by chokolad 3y ago
> That... is the same as it has been for a long long time.
It really was not, at least in Seattle. Seattle had a pretty good gifted program for a very long time. If you got into that - you can get a very good education in a public school. They gutted it in last few years under the banner of equity.
It still exists in the suburbs like e.g. Bellevue or Redmond, but even there it is being watered down. I have 2 kids in various stages of gifted education and follow various covnersations about it and it definitely goes downhill.
- taeric 3y agoThis depends heavily on what part of Seattle you mean. I just moved out of Queen Anne, and it is still quite nice school wise compared to where I grew up. That said, main city of Seattle used to be basically the industrial zone. Bellevue and Redmond had the better schools even a decade ago. Such that I have a hard time following that. Happy to see hard data showing a decline. Even still, I meant my point to be what it has been like for most of the nation for a long time. Again, happy to see hard data showing Seattle proper has had a decline in school quality. Most anecdotes I've heard don't really support that.