A movie in the 90s was made about the race to the intellectual bottom called Harrison Bergeron, nobody was allowed to be smarter in the egalitarian society. Its a great movie.
Yes, Harrison Bergeron is a good analogy to what libs are trying to do to our society. They can't admit that some inequality occurs due to innate differences in people's abilities. They have to believe that the only reason someone could be doing better is because they are cheating others, so we "fix" the problem by handicapping those who are doing better.
I fucking hate my hometown now...
It used to be cool to be from Seattle, now its embarrassing. More and more of my friends are pulling kiddos out of public schools and into private/faith based and charter schools...
Friends that are teachers have had it. They don't feel safe or valued at all and are forced to spend their own $$$ to make class interesting.
>At one point during the nearly five-hour meeting, school board president Zachary DeWolf—who launched an unsuccessful city council campaign just a year after being elected to the school board—announced that it was his birthday and then read a poem to honor his mother.
Is this guy ten years old or what? Good grief.
This entire thing displays bucket-of-crabs mentality: if I can't get ahead, then I'll make sure you can't either.
Omg. The only way to get away from the dumb kids for most school children is do better and get in the more advanced classes. Don’t take this away from the smart kids.
My family goes back generations here. Most of us have left the large cities and are spread out across the state. I've known a lot of other families do the same. Sad to see what has happened to such a once beautiful place.
These gifted programs open so many doors for children who come from families who aren’t wealthy enough to afford private school. This is racist and classist.
Was the curriculum for general ed kids was really any better? I feel like so much of what is taught in public schools is social engineering bullshit. At least in gifted programs, kids can be with their intellectual peers.
This is a common ethics-based intellectual exercise that's used all over. The goal is to determine who/what you value in life. It's essentially holding up a mirror to you and your values. Variants of this were frequently used in my Catholic university philosophy and anthro courses.
I knew a lot of those gifted kids back in school. They weren't very bright. Sure, they got fast tracked through school, but a lot of them ended up with mundane low pay jobs because of the recession.
A movie in the 90s was made about the race to the intellectual bottom called Harrison Bergeron, nobody was allowed to be smarter in the egalitarian society. Its a great movie.
*short story
It's only maybe three pages.
Edit: full text courtesy of the leftarded moonbats at Archive.org (who fled to Canada because Drumpf was going to shut down the internet).
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt
Yes, Harrison Bergeron is a good analogy to what libs are trying to do to our society. They can't admit that some inequality occurs due to innate differences in people's abilities. They have to believe that the only reason someone could be doing better is because they are cheating others, so we "fix" the problem by handicapping those who are doing better.
I fucking hate my hometown now... It used to be cool to be from Seattle, now its embarrassing. More and more of my friends are pulling kiddos out of public schools and into private/faith based and charter schools... Friends that are teachers have had it. They don't feel safe or valued at all and are forced to spend their own $$$ to make class interesting.
Didn't he suck-start a shotgun or something?
>At one point during the nearly five-hour meeting, school board president Zachary DeWolf—who launched an unsuccessful city council campaign just a year after being elected to the school board—announced that it was his birthday and then read a poem to honor his mother.
Is this guy ten years old or what? Good grief.
This entire thing displays bucket-of-crabs mentality: if I can't get ahead, then I'll make sure you can't either.
That is a violation of "No child left behind". Burn the heretic at the stake!
Omg. The only way to get away from the dumb kids for most school children is do better and get in the more advanced classes. Don’t take this away from the smart kids.
My family goes back generations here. Most of us have left the large cities and are spread out across the state. I've known a lot of other families do the same. Sad to see what has happened to such a once beautiful place.
These gifted programs open so many doors for children who come from families who aren’t wealthy enough to afford private school. This is racist and classist.
Back in my day, the high schools were dismantling the gifted programs because they wanted to use the money to build better football fields.
That is the very definition of racism.
Why are the racist Seattlers (Seattlites?) not allowing POC to participate in the gifted program tho?
The premise itself is inherently racist.
They’re dumb.
Bell curve. Give it a few decades and once the Asian population rises, they will be targeted as well as whites for their “privilege”
Oh,dumb down the smart kids....that makes sense.
As a teacherpede, I find this incredibly stupid.
Read: Bad Students Not Bad Schools
When The Stranger calls you out, you’ve lost.
Was the curriculum for general ed kids was really any better? I feel like so much of what is taught in public schools is social engineering bullshit. At least in gifted programs, kids can be with their intellectual peers.
This is a common ethics-based intellectual exercise that's used all over. The goal is to determine who/what you value in life. It's essentially holding up a mirror to you and your values. Variants of this were frequently used in my Catholic university philosophy and anthro courses.
Says the moron who didn't get into the program? ;)
More work for smarter kids is equal to less work for less talented kids.
I knew a lot of those gifted kids back in school. They weren't very bright. Sure, they got fast tracked through school, but a lot of them ended up with mundane low pay jobs because of the recession.