Seattle Schools Shut Down Gifted Programs Because Equity.
(To achieve equity, excellence must be suppressed. In Seattle, liberals characteristically achieve this on a racial basis)

Seattle has shuttered its gifted and talented programs because the school board determined they had too many white and Asian students.
The district began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort schools and classrooms for advanced students in the 2021-22 school year because they found it had too many racial inequities. School bosses said black and Hispanic students were underrepresented at the schools.
According to Seattle Public School data, of the highly capable students in the 2022-23 school year, 52 percent were white, 16 percent were Asian and 3.4 percent were black.
(Not even Affirmative Action insanity suffices):
During a January 22, 2020, school board meeting, parents of black students in the Highly Capable Cohort asked the board to consider finding ways to incorporate students of color into the gifted program rather than shut it down.
Then school board vice president Chandra Hampson slammed those parents saying, ‘this is a pretty masterful job at tokenizing a really small community of color within the existing cohort.’
(No more tokenizing by including students based on their skin color who won’t be able to keep up. From now on, no more excellence for anyone.
Too bad for any black kids who actually belonged in gifted programs. They get screwed like the other overachievers.)
Three elementary schools, five middle schools and three high schools are currently highly capable cohort schools – all of which will be phased out by the 2027-28 school year. …
According to Seattle Public Schools, the new model will be ‘be more inclusive, equitable and culturally sensitive.’
(Americans did not master air travel and 65 years later make it to the moon by being inclusive, equitable, and culturally sensitive, but by encouraging excellence.)

When the school board decided to end the program, then vice president Chandra Hampson slammed parents of minority students who asked the board to keep the program as 'tokenized'

https://moonbattery.com/seattle-schools-shut-down-gifted-programs-because-equity/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266205/Seattle-closes-gifted-talented-schools-racial-inequities.html