The NYT diligently publishes
an article a
bout how 'gifted' programs in schools are usually racist because fewer blacks and Hispanics qualify for them. Who knew white lady teachers could be so wicked? But Broward County, Florida, seems to have overcome this through a "universal" testing program:
The only problem is that the system was not universal. It was a quota system, as the
study referenced makes clear (pgs. 1-2):
The NYT articles does not mention this minor detail, of course. Instead it includes this image:
It is more important to the NYT that it advance The Narrative -white people are evil and keeping blacks and Hispanics out of gifted programs- than to report the truth.
Crazy how much of this thread hits near to home for me over the past couple days lol...
I'll preface this by saying that I disagree with a bunch of your stuff, but when it comes to raced based admissions/selection for children in public schools I have a lot of first hand experience.
My high school that I mentioned earlier is like 65% Asian these days. Over the years, it has been a political football both ways and there has been metric tons of controversy... both from people shamelessly pushing The Narrative and people who were pissed off when their kid was left out for a lesser-qualified Black. Pretty much inevitable whenever you have a public high school funded by taxpayers that is perceived by anyone to be "unfair."
When I was in school, I think it was like 50% White, 40% Asian, 8%ish Hispanic/Latino (fun fact: they "reclassified" me during my junior year once they found out my dad was Latino... thanks mom for all the #WhitePrivilege genes, life would be
so rough without them or something, right? That's how it goes? Am I acknowledging my privilege correctly? Or do I only have half privilege and like a
quarter privilege when I tan up?)...
...and 2%ish Black. As you can imagine, this doesn't fit the demographics of the DC area at all, so everyone was looking for a PC way to blame the selection process or whatever. They couldn't just accept that maybe Asian parents were drilling their kids to be better at math and science, and that maybe affluent Whites coming from high-achieving, high-intelligence, highly-educated parents accounted for a disproportionate amount of the high IQ genes for the area.
So what they started doing is letting in every Black student that made the first cut, and not putting them through the rest of the selection process. That made my class the most diverse in school history at like 13 total Black students out of 400+. Yay? And then that led to lawsuits, op-eds in the paper, etc. Fun times. Must've been really great for for all of Black peers to walk around every day with people questioning whether or not they "deserved" to be there... which is a very sad byproduct of any sort of special treatment measure. Some people think you're a charity case, even if you 100% earned it on merit.
Bonus exercise: given the above and nothing else, can you guess which sports we were good at? And which ones we weren't?
Also: Koreans are the most racist people you will ever meet.