On: Seattle public schools shuts down gifted and talented program

[bigyabai]

Public schools generally don't receive enough funding to provide the bare-minimum. If the gifted/talented coursework was preventing normal students from graduation, why should they keep it?

[orangecat → bigyabai]

Public schools generally don't receive enough funding to provide the bare-minimum.

This is commonly repeated and basically false. Inflation-adjusted funding per student continues to increase: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d25/tables/dt25_236.55.a...