Gifted and Talented Academy leaves Latino and Special Education Students out - Wait, What?

Gifted and Talented Academy leaves Latino and Special Education Students out - Wait, What?:

Gifted and Talented Academy leaves Latino and Special Education Students out

by jonpelto

Fellow columnist and pro-public education blogger, Wendy Lecker, and I have both written about the plan to open “gifted and talented” academies next fall in Windham, New London and Bridgeport.  The three new schools will be called Renzulli Academies and modeled after the school in Hartford by the same name.

Details about the plan can be found by reading the Wait, What? posts entitled,  Blessed are the Gifted for they shall inherit the earth and “Gifted” to the right, “Special” to the left, the rest of you sit down and wait.

The proposal to segregate “gifted” students from the rest of the population raises a variety of extremely serious issues, not the least of which is the negative impact it would have on both the students who are being pulled out and the students left behind in the “traditional”