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Mar. 6th, 2009 09:11 amI went to the Asian-American Parents Action Committee's session on Gifted and Talented programs and the future of these programs in the county. Sigh.
The advocate for "keeping the status quo" which is what is preferred managed to make a racist comment. Great...this is the guy representing "us", the pro-separate GT parents.
The argument is whether there should be a separate GT curriculum in all subjects, with identification of students for GT and (probably) homogeneous grouping for students to take this GT curriculum.
There was a lot of emphasis on high school measures, number of students in AP, number receiving scores of 3 or higher on AP. There was also the comment that our state university is complaining that the freshmen aren't prepared in math; the state university is claiming to be teaching a lot more remedial math. It would be interesting to see if that is really graduates of this county school system making that difference at the college level. It could very well be, the school system is large.
The representative of the school system had packed the room with system employees and tried to call up one of them to answer a question. But the moderator did not allow that (and the noise of the room supported the moderator).
This is not the end of the discussion. There are two more meetings scheduled this month alone.
The advocate for "keeping the status quo" which is what is preferred managed to make a racist comment. Great...this is the guy representing "us", the pro-separate GT parents.
The argument is whether there should be a separate GT curriculum in all subjects, with identification of students for GT and (probably) homogeneous grouping for students to take this GT curriculum.
There was a lot of emphasis on high school measures, number of students in AP, number receiving scores of 3 or higher on AP. There was also the comment that our state university is complaining that the freshmen aren't prepared in math; the state university is claiming to be teaching a lot more remedial math. It would be interesting to see if that is really graduates of this county school system making that difference at the college level. It could very well be, the school system is large.
The representative of the school system had packed the room with system employees and tried to call up one of them to answer a question. But the moderator did not allow that (and the noise of the room supported the moderator).
This is not the end of the discussion. There are two more meetings scheduled this month alone.
