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Re:Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair by colpabar on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:12PM (#28935779)
Idk, but there's lot to read. Here's an article I just found

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-scor...

> Traditional explanations for the black-white test score gap have not stood up well to the test of time. During the 1960s, most liberals blamed the gap on some combination of black poverty, racial segregation, and inadequate funding of black schools. Since then, the number of affluent black families has grown dramatically, but their children’s test scores still lag far behind those of white children from equally affluent families. School desegregation may have played some role in reducing the black-white test score gap in the South, but school desegregation also seems to have costs for blacks, and when we compare initially similar students in today’s schools, those who attend desegregated schools learn only slightly more than those in segregated schools.

Automatically blaming any discrepancy on outcomes between different racial groups on racism isn't helping anyone. It also doesn't really feel like you're looking to discuss or learn anything here, rather just to scold people for being racist. This is a tough question that doesn't have a solid answer yet.

Re:Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair by aaomidi on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:13PM (#28935799)
> rather just to scold people for being racist

Where did I scold people, or call people racist?

I said I'm not interested in the discussion if you think there is a _biological reason_ behind it.

Re:Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair by colpabar on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:20PM (#28935912)
Well, I'd guess that most people here are not interested in a discussion that involves working backwards from an already chosen solution rather than figuring out what the solution is without any ideas being forbidden from the start. (myself included) Good luck!