Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students, with consultant branding black parents who complained about move 'tokenized'
- Seattle ended its gifted and talented program due to racial inequities
- Teachers are now required to make individual learning plans for all students
- Some parents fear their students will get left behind and slow their progress
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.
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'
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