De Blasio’s final ‘gift’ to NYC is ruining its schools: Goodwin

New York has endured nearly eight years under its worst mayor ever, but Bill de Blasio aims to do even more damage on his way out the door. His plan to end all Gifted and Talented programs in the public schools represents another assault on merit and would further dumb down a system already drowning in mediocrity and failure. 

The mayor, thankfully term-limited on Jan. 1, wants to replace achievement with a politically correct concoction called Brilliant, which appears to be based on the notion that every child is a little bit Gifted and Talented. 

But just a little bit because students identified as having the ability to learn faster would get accelerated instruction in specific subjects while remaining with their initial classmates, which sounds like a formula for lots of chaos and very little learning. 

It also sounds like a parting gift to the rapacious education unions, with the city promising to retrain 4,000 kindergarten teachers and hire more. It will also create seven specialist teams of experts to get the switch started next September so that 65,000 kindergarten students can participate and no doubt get participation trophies. 

via nypost.com

Mises’s idea of socialist “Destructionism” seems especially relevant.