In Seattle, the public school system is taking apart a popular gifted program for elementary and middle school students because white and Asian students are disproportionately represented in the initiative. If translated to the Academy Awards, this idea would have meant no best director Oscar this year because the nominees are all men. It is awkward because these solutions involve punishing deserving people — some of them minorities themselves — to achieve inclusivity. “Educational opportunity isn’t a capped resource (at least it doesn’t have to be),” columnist Danny Westneat wrote in The Seattle Times. For example, in the Seattle gifted program, “there aren’t a fixed number of slots, like in, say, admission to a selective college.

Source: National Post January 29, 2020 15:11 UTC