Eliminating Exams to Enter Gifted Programs?

The pandemic, inequities, and zip codes

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I went to a high school that was 98 percent black. I had black classmates that were in a predominately black gifted program. Naturally, the gifted students were a tiny percentage out of the entire student body. However, no black parent, local black politician, or black community spokesperson complained about the disparity between the average black…