{"id":883509,"date":"2021-10-15T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=883509"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:29:48","slug":"nyc-parents-keep-gifted-and-talented-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-parents-keep-gifted-and-talented-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC parents: Keep Gifted and Talented classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-parents-keep-gifted-and-talented-classes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=883509&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2550956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2550956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2013 JANUARY 30: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a press conference to announce the city will not appeal a judge\u2019s ruling that the police tactic \u201cStop-and-Frisk\u201d is unconstitutional, which the judge had ruled over last summer, on January 30, 2014 in in the Brownsville neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:50 AM PT \u2013 Friday, October 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Concerned parents are making their voices heard in New York. The parents of New York City have taken to the streets to protest Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s (D) proclamation to end Gifted and Talented programs in city schools.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators gathered on the steps of the New York Department of Education on Thursday. During the event, parents such as Lucus Liu voiced their concern over their children\u2019s education being sacrificed in the name of equity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re using schools to achieve their version of equity, which involves closing the achievement gap by slowing down education, by taking away opportunities for all kids, by not expanding G&amp;T [Gifted and Talented] into all neighborhoods that currently don\u2019t have the benefit of a G&amp;T program,\u201d said Liu.<\/p>\n<p>Another event speaker, Maud Maron, called for education to simply serve its intended purpose and devoid politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur schools need to be places of academic excellence, not indoctrination, not giant group therapy sessions,\u201d stressed Maron. \u201cOur schools need to be places where children are learning. They\u2019re learning how to read, they\u2019re learning mathematics and they\u2019re preparing themselves to go to college. They\u2019re preparing themselves to compete in a global world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you are in NYC and can join us, come and raise your voice to demand more &amp; better education options for all our kids. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ranX5Ug99n\">https:\/\/t.co\/ranX5Ug99n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maud Maron (@MaudMaron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaudMaron\/status\/1448637554568441859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Critics of the Gifted and Talented program have argued it disproportionately favors whites and Asians over Black and Latino students. Mona Davids of the New York City Parents Union argued against this point, claiming the city\u2019s education standards as a whole should be raised rather than accepting sub-standard comprehension of material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single year we graduate students who are illiterate and innumerate. There should be accelerated programs for all students,\u201d said Davids.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor de Blasio announced the city\u2019s Gifted programs would be replaced by the \u201cBrilliant New York\u201d initiative by fall of 2022. The mayor drew fire when it was revealed his children both attended a Gifted and Talented middle school, leading them both to attend prestigious high schools and universities.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/house-passes-debt-ceiling-extension-increase\/\">Biden Signs Bill To Raise Debt Ceiling<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2013 JANUARY 30: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a press conference to announce the city will not appeal a judge\u2019s ruling that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}