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California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones

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412 points tafda | 2 comments | 26 Nov 24 16:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.442s | source
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rcpt ◴[26 Nov 24 17:18 UTC] No.42247615[source]▶
It's not because of BLM. It's because of Prop 13.
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BadHumans ◴[26 Nov 24 17:21 UTC] No.42247652[source]▶
Go on...Going to need a little bit more of an explanation here.
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edmundsauto ◴[26 Nov 24 17:27 UTC] No.42247711[source]▶
Prop 13 limits property taxes which are typically used for funding local schools. The comment is implying that it’s low school funding in Ca that is the culprit.
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1. BadHumans ◴[26 Nov 24 17:48 UTC] No.42247948[source]▶
I understand now thanks. That point doesn't make sense to me in the context of the article because the article is claiming that black and Latino gifted children were under-scouted until the BLM movement. Seems that this and that are 2 different issues.
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2. pfisherman ◴[26 Nov 24 18:19 UTC] No.42248336[source]▶
Prop 13 had a huge negative effect on quality of public schools in California, which I got to experience first hand.

The difference was quite apparent to me during high school when I compared my older siblings’ yearbooks to my experience of the same school a decade later. They had so many more classes, clubs, sports, programs, and activities available to them than I did.