SEATTLE, Washington (PNN) - April 3, 2024 - Racist Seattle has shuttered its gifted and talented programs because the racist 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 it found it had too many racial inequities. School bosses said black and Hispanic students were underrepresented at the schools.  It did not matter to these racists that black and Hispanic students were not as accomplished students as Asian and white students.

According to Seattle Public School data, of the highly capable students in the 2022-23 school year, 52% were white, 16% were Asian, and 3.4% were black.

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.  There suggestions did not include having the black students work harder to get better grades; they were just supposed to be included because they were black, which is clearly racist.

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.

The gifted and talented program has been replaced with the Highly Capable Neighborhood School Model, which requires teachers to come up with individualized learning programs for all their students.

According to Seattle Public Schools, the new model will be more inclusive, equitable and culturally sensitive.

Parents told The Seattle Times they think the new model could lead to their children getting overlooked and slow their academic progress.

Erika Ruberry, a parent of a second grader at Decatur Elementary said, “It seems to me that (children) on maybe both extremes are going to be underserved.”