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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by minsc_and_boo on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:28PM (#31671929)
False dichotomy.

It's like countering homelessness by enforcing that a portion of housing is accessible, affordable low-income housing. People sitting in high-income housing then make frivolous statements about all the houses being burnt down, or how we should also remove public basketball courts because of the NBA.

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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by qgin on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:54PM (#31672275)
No, you’re talking about option #1, which I also agree is better. That’s not what’s happening here.

If you see a program that doesn’t have equal access, and instead of doing the hard work to get to equal access, you just get rid of the program… that’s the #2 option, the one I’m referring to, which is worse for everyone.

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