Mayor Eric Adams is on the right track and deserves praise for rescuing advanced programming from the abyss. But in its current form, the city's system falls short.
This is absolutely right! As a mother of three children in a city wide G&T school, I feel that Adams' effort to expand the gifted and talented program bringing in 3rd grades top performers, and K students with "teacher's referrals" was a very bad idea. The education at these schools have declined so much, as you mentioned on your article G&T became a "name only". I had to take the role of a teacher and supplement school work at home with my children. Teachers cannot do anything, these were policies coming from the DOE, even though principals knew these children were not ready for this type of education they kept accepting children (also they need city funding). Last year when "top performers in 3rd grade" with (3&4) were accepted in city wide schools not even knowing how to spell held whole classes back in the learning process. K students with teacher referrals did not even speak English, teachers that were helping students 1 to 1 for reading or math, now had to teach English to some children. These children were not in any manner ready for accelerated education.
It is sad the city is such a chaos, politicians have corrupted everything even schools and this is the saddest part.
This is absolutely right! As a mother of three children in a city wide G&T school, I feel that Adams' effort to expand the gifted and talented program bringing in 3rd grades top performers, and K students with "teacher's referrals" was a very bad idea. The education at these schools have declined so much, as you mentioned on your article G&T became a "name only". I had to take the role of a teacher and supplement school work at home with my children. Teachers cannot do anything, these were policies coming from the DOE, even though principals knew these children were not ready for this type of education they kept accepting children (also they need city funding). Last year when "top performers in 3rd grade" with (3&4) were accepted in city wide schools not even knowing how to spell held whole classes back in the learning process. K students with teacher referrals did not even speak English, teachers that were helping students 1 to 1 for reading or math, now had to teach English to some children. These children were not in any manner ready for accelerated education.
It is sad the city is such a chaos, politicians have corrupted everything even schools and this is the saddest part.