[Project.leer] cutting Gifted and Talented

This is such a good example of the era of post-truth era of institutional stupidity we are now in- people have been beating up gifted and talented programs for the last 4 years- so instead of reforming or making the programs more inclusive in terms of talent identification- let’s just get rid or dismantle of them altogether…because there is really no such thing as gifted or talented students- similar to being “post-disability”- it reminds me of the professor from a reading department in the UK who said “we are increasing disparities by reading to our children.” So not surprisingly- congress wants to now cut Gifted and Talented. Like getting rid of special education, it will not close disparities and likely do a lot of harm…MDB https://exceptionalchildren.org/takeaction?vvsrc=/Campaigns/116794/Respond https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/gifted-programs-worsen-inequality-... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyregion/gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/schools-debate-gifted-and-talented-...