Obviously, the Times and their Lib friends can't call for this "racial dynamic" to be remedied by moving the less-gifted children into the gifted classes (essentially what they did with the last bunch of FD tests), so they will eventually call for...if not demand...that the gifted classes be eliminated, all for "fairness."

All for "fairness."

Same with the guns: if they take the guns away from the middle-class whites, then the homicide rate will be equalized across all Chicago neighborhoods,

like the Chicago reporter whined about in a post somewhere here on Thee Rant

but on the negative end of the scale.

IT is just a metal door with three windows, the kind meant to keep the

clamor of an elementary school hallway from piercing a classroom’s

quiet. Other than paint the color of bubble gum, it is unremarkable.

















“I know what we look like,” Carolyn M. Weinberg, a 28-year veteran of

P.S. 163, said of the racial disparities as she stood one day in the

third-floor hallway between Room 318, where she and a colleague teach a

fourth-grade general education class, and the one where Angelo

Monserrate teaches the gifted class, Room 311.







“I know what you see,” said Ms. Weinberg.







There are 652 students enrolled at P.S. 163 this year, from

prekindergarten through fifth grade. Roughly 63 percent of them are

black and Hispanic; whites make up 27 percent; and Asians account for 6

percent.







This reflects the flavor of the neighborhood, and roughly matches the

New York City school system’s overall demographics.











Of the 205 children enrolled in the nine gifted classes, 97, or 47

percent, are white; another 31 of the students, or 15 percent, are

Asian. And a combined 65 students, or 32 percent, are black and

Hispanic.







In the 21 other classes that enroll the school’s remaining 447 students, only 80, or 18 percent, are white.







The disparities are most apparent in the lower grades.







Of the 24 students in Karen Engler’s kindergarten gifted class, one is

black and three are Hispanic. Ayelet Cutler’s first-grade gifted class

has 21 students, one of them black and two Hispanic. There are two

blacks and two Hispanics among the 26 students in Athena Shapiro’s

second-grade gifted class.







On a recent morning, a line of Ms. Cutler’s students moved from the

classroom to the corridor, ahead of the general education class of Linda

Crews. A string of mostly white faces and then a line of mostly black

and Hispanic ones walked down the hall of a school named for a New York

politician who sought to end inequities in education: Alfred E. Smith.

A great deal more, but the Lib points are made in the above paragraphs:

Then, in the Big Picture?: white kids not going to the colleges they should because of their intellect, and, ultimately, not making as much money in their lives, bringing these once gifted children down to the level of, and a society made up of, the Least Common Denominator, just where they want it.. Just the way it should be.....Anyone who doesn't believe that there's a movement afoot to "equalize" everything.......is living in a dream world:Gifted, Talented and SeparatedBy AL BAKER NY TIMESJanuary 13, 2013But the pink door on Room 311 at Public School 163on the Upper West Side represents a barrier belied by its friendly hue.(Funny, but they don't say that about the "racial dynamic" of Corrections, etc)