They clarified that it was due to the pandemic, the other issue was a part of the reason, and if the other sources the OP likely got it from do not correct, it is then a very good reason why to drop them as reliable sources.
It is a lesson that many on the right need to learn.
Yes, but then the focus should change, or then we continue to discuss the non-operative spin from the right wing sources that you used. Not very fulfilling. (Really, finding that report from an American school in Europe or elsewhere does not happen unless the sources that you use like to focus on race issues that they see as problematic, and in this case while the fault is with the original source, the ones copy pasting that are missing to report the correction to others).
The WGBH article says it was due to the pandemic and “and concerns about equity in the program”. Isn’t that what we’re focusing on?
Unless they clarify more, the main reason was the pandemic. This is like the other item mentioned in passing by the OP, the last time the use of a lottery in schools was discussed to death, it turned out that it was a moot point when the school in question dropped that idea, and also when it was pointed out that other schools have used lotteries for a long time and the world did not end.
Until I see what they will do after the pandemic is over, this discussion is, as I pointed out; just following a right wing spin that is not as important as the OP wanted.
I don’t know why you keep bringing up right wing spin; I guess so you can ignore it. The superintendent explicitly said that part of the reason for cancellation was the inequality of the program:
“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius told GBH News. “There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”
BPS canceled a program for high-performing students due to potential racism.
Again, that was not the main reason. And again, we will see how important the secondary one was once they do deal with the issue. BTW previous history does show that refusing to acknowledge that there is unfairness is one item that the right wing sources avoid to look at properly, this is because they are trying very hard to turn items like that into a wedge issue between Asians Vs other minorities.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake…
Yeah, Boston, like a lot of northern cities, has a checkered past with racism. I suppose it’s not as bad as southern cities but when liberals go on about how southern conservatives are the devil and the cause of all evil I just shake my head.
Seattle, another liberal city I’ve lived in, was better in regard to blacks but they have an ugly history with asians.
I’m surprised to hear there is so much segregation, and poor education for the majority in a liberal city.
Liberals have control of this. If you want to avoid the right turning it into a wedge issue, then tell the school boards and colleges to stop discriminating against Asians. They can’t make it an issue if it isn’t happening.
Bullseye, it is clear that you did not learn about the context from past discussions, it is enough to say that I would not had replied the way you did because it demonstrates my point. It acknowledges that it is indeed an effort from the right to divide others. (What do you think a wedge is?)
Second: There is a reason why to look at who gave you that spin, the extreme right is in favor of dividing others. In the past affirmative action benefited specific Asians, that is not lost on the Asians that benefited from AA who are working in academia now, the ones that are involved too nowadays in looking to make an issue better for other minorities do realize that it can be a bit inconvenient now for a few Asians, just as many whites realized in the past that it would be inconvenient to a few whites in the past to give an opportunity to others.
Still, they managed to do the right thing.
So yes, you need to get better sources of information too.
No, you don’t get it. There really is discrimination against Asians in education. The right are pointing this out and trying to benefit from it (rather hypocritically), but it’s the left who are driving wedges by literally pitting one minority against another. You are blaming the messenger for the message.
The courts in the USA did say that that is wrong.
And that shows that you missed the overall point I’m making here. This wedge was manufactured, if it was a misunderstanding days ago, it is now a manufactured one simply because the clarification made was that the pandemic was the reason, not the one made up by the right (this is because no correction will be seen coming from your sources as usual), so the right is the one that is demonstratively making the wedge here.
By no means have all the examples been tested in court.
My source did post a correction, and the reason wasn’t made up by the right but was one of two reasons given by the people in charge. They just didn’t make clear originally that the pandemic was the principle reason for suspending the exam next year. And sure, we don’t know what decisions the Boston school system will eventually make, but the examples we discussed previously, in NY and Virginia are pretty clear cut and the right has nothing to do with them.
Meh, like if those were not also moot points. (There was no lottery anymore while the thread was continuing on and on like a chicken without a head) The point stands, this would not had made a ripple if the original source would not had opined instead of describing the real reason, but then the right wing will continue harping about this until kingdom come without ever making a correction.
Because that’s not what it says. The statement you quoted says nothing at all about the gifted programs. And it was later clarified that this statement was independent of the reason the gifted programs would be on pause.
It is indeed understandable at first to infer the pause was enacted due to the inequalities mentioned, as they were discussed together. But the article has been updated with a clarification that this was a miscommunication. So, now that the miscommunication has been withdrawn, it should no longer be in play.
As quoted earlier in the thread:
[Superintendent] Cassellius told GBH News that equity concerns about the advance work program were not the motivation for suspension of the test this year.
To now ignore that statement and instead insist on the earlier misunderstood one would come off as disingenuous. Yet that is predictably what the conservative outrage machine is continuing to do.
So what is the ‘conservative outrage machine’ saying? Do you watch Fox news or something to keep up on it?
As someone pointed out:
This was already linked at, it was fairly easy to find when the outrage is cut and paste and no corrections are coming. Most on the right do get their information from sources like that and from anti social media.
Reading it to the end, one can see that that is an opinion, and directed to liberals that do that and complain later about the quality of public schools.
Exactly.