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Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is ditching its program for gifted students in order to make the less gifted kids feel like they're doing just great and don't need to study harder and don't need to feel upset when other kids get honors classes. All this in the name of "inclusiveness" and "equity" for the sake of diversity.
SPS began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort (HCC) schools and classrooms for advanced learners in the 2021-22 school year, claiming the program did not address racial inequalities, but addressed only the needs of bright students in mainly two-parent households that emphasizes education over hanging out. Of course this does not imply that people from lower socio-economic groups and/or father-less homes cannot succeed scholastically, but there's definitely something to be said for intact family structure as it related to success.
The replacement for HCC will be called the Highly Capable Neighborhood School Model, and will be available in every school by the 2024-25 school year, It will level the playing field so that highly gifted learners and learners without gifts will be learning less, but doing it together.
Insofar as incentives go for gifted students, what's the point of pushing the intellectual envelope?
Instead of separate classrooms and schools for gifted students, all students will remain together in the same classroom and the teacher will individualize learning plans for each student. The beauty of the program is that it adds to the convenience of the classroom clowns and dummies to steal the lunch money from the higher performing kids and won't have to go looking for them. It's a win-lose situation, so what could go wrong?
The district announced the changes will "address historical inequity" and include "three tiers of service for students depending on individual needs, delivered in a way that honors individual cultures and backgrounds."
And all that jazz.
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