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Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying?
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If you want to talk about the underlying idea behind almost every major educational reform in the United States in the last forty years, it is this: to destroy public education. If it is not the formal intent, it becomes the practical effect as the only way to get political support is to get support from Republicans, and Republicans hate public education on every level it is possible to hate something and will support it only on the conditions that it deteriorates public education.
The conservative project is to trigger a doom cycle where high performing students leave a school, that school performs more poorly, more parents are motivated to have their children leave poorer performing school, so more students leave; eventually you have two schools: one with high performing students, one with low performing students; and the low performing schools probalby cost more to operate, because they are going to have a higher percentage of special education students requiring more support. Now, having pulled high performing students out, those schools have less political support in their communities are and easier to defund.
Also see: "school choice" as a conservative talking point. Also see: divide and conquer.
The magnet schools in New York City were founded well before school rankings were published, with most of them founded before 1950.
I've met several students from these schools and they've mostly spoke about these high schools with praise. They got to go to a school with intellectual peers instead of being an outlier.
Yes.
I'm not saying magnet schools are bad in theory, just in the political climate we are in they are politically advantageous to people who want to destroy public education.