{"id":13474,"date":"2024-04-24T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13474"},"modified":"2024-04-24T17:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:37:57","slug":"seattle-is-getting-rid-of-gifted-schools-in-a-bid-to-increase-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13474","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Is Getting Rid of Gifted Schools in a Bid To Increase Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When school districts get rid of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/02\/21\/to-increase-equity-this-california-high-school-is-eliminating-honors-courses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advanced<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/10\/12\/a-top-ranked-high-school-got-rid-of-merit-based-admissions-then-students-grades-tanked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offerings<\/a>&nbsp;in a bid to reduce racial inequality, they end up doing to opposite of what they claim to intend. While wealthier families can move to better school districts or enroll their children in private schools, smart\u2014yet poor\u2014kids end up getting stuck in &#8220;equitable&#8221; classrooms that leave them under-stimulated and ignored.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uET4o1ynXB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/04\/04\/seattle-is-getting-rid-of-gifted-schools-in-a-bid-to-increase-equity\/\">Seattle Is Getting Rid of Gifted Schools in a Bid To Increase Equity<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Seattle Is Getting Rid of Gifted Schools in a Bid To Increase Equity&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/04\/04\/seattle-is-getting-rid-of-gifted-schools-in-a-bid-to-increase-equity\/embed\/#?secret=ODVgEmlRBv#?secret=uET4o1ynXB\" data-secret=\"uET4o1ynXB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When school districts get rid of advanced offerings in a bid to reduce racial inequality, they end up doing to opposite of what they claim to intend. While wealthier families can move to better school districts or enroll their children in private schools, smart\u2014yet poor\u2014kids end up getting stuck in &#8220;equitable&#8221; classrooms that leave them under-stimulated and ignored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/04\/04\/seattle-is-getting-rid-of-gifted-schools-in-a-bid-to-increase-equity\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,243,357,1280],"class_list":["post-13474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-equity","tag-school","tag-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13475,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions\/13475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}