The release by Mayor de Blasio’s School Diversity Advisory Group of a series of proposals that include getting rid of gifted-and-talented programs in city schools amounts to giving up rather than aspiring, settling for mediocrity because it is considered preferable to the harder work of raising up those who are struggling.
While it quickly earned the approval of Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who possesses the blind certainty of an ideologue, Mr. de Blasio has reserved judgment so far, perhaps influenced by the harsh critiques coming from so many different quarters.
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