Mayor to gifted kids: drop dead
When I was in school, there was a program for what were called gifted kids, that would challenge them and let them go beyond what the rest of the class was doing.
In many places, that was eliminated in the name of egalitarianism.
Now we're seeing much more damage being done, with standards being abandoned and, in a few cases, honors classes being done away with altogether because they have too many white and Asian students in them.
This week we're hearing that Brandon Johnson, the progressive mayor of Chicago, is moving to undermine the city's high-achieving selective-enrollment high schools, which academically talented students whose local schools are rotten have been able to apply to attend instead.
Giving students this choice has led to "inequity," we're told.
So Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez says we should prepare ourselves for "a transition away from privatization and admissions/enrollment policies and approaches that further stratification and inequity in CPS and drive student enrollment away from neighborhood schools."
In plain English: they're going to make it impossible for you to escape from your hideous neighborhood school but they really, really promise it's going to be super awesome from now on.
So you see? Nothing to worry about!
Sure, three quarters of the students in these locals schools aren't proficient in reading and 83% aren't proficient in math, but don't you worry about that -- this will be a great place for academically gifted kids to thrive!
Lesson: if a shred of decency or an island of sanity or an oasis of excellence is to be found out there, be assured that they'll eventually come for it.
Bottom line: these people are at war with you.
What are normal people supposed to do in this situation? Many parents would love to homeschool but they're convinced they can't -- they're not qualified, they think, or they can't afford to keep a parent at home.
This is the kind of seemingly impossible situation the current regime puts us in.
Over the past day or so I've listed a whole bunch of these.
They take your kids for 13 years and prep them for the modern economy in no way whatsoever.
They pressure your employer to harass and even fire you for your medical choices.
They empty your money of its purchasing power.
They fill your kids' heads with insane ideologies.
You and I could list dozens of these.
But:
These are only seemingly impossible situations. When the best of us put our heads and talents together, we can solve them -- and, yes, find freedom in an unfree world."
TomWoods.com
