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Zohran Mamdani confirmed his mayoralty will be a disaster for New York’s students by picking a schools chancellor who is sure to prioritize toxic “equity” over educating kids.
The mayor tapped Kamar Samuels — who has used his six years as superintendent of Manhattan’s District 3 to erode Gifted & Talented programs, supposedly replacing them with International Baccalaureate curriculum.
He pretends this is about excellence, saying that IB aligns with his “philosophy” of “access to high-quality educational experiences” for all students.
Rubbish: IB can be rigorous (no bets that it will be under NYC’s failure-friendly Department of Education), but it’s heavily geared toward high school students and so plainly no kind of replacement for Gifted & Talented programs in much earlier grades, including ones that start screening as early as kindergarten.
Identifying which kids are advancing faster than their peers is a boon to all students — it means everyone has the chance to learn at a pace that serves them.
That’s exactly what G&T programs are for; but DEI-obsessed educrats and activists insist that the screenings and tests for admission are somehow biased against minorities, despite one of New York’s top courts slapping down that claim.
Getting rid of Gifted & Talented isn’t about bettering education at all; it’s just a way to placate the anti-merit crusaders who claim that the programs are racist because acceptance is based on a student’s abilities, not skin color. --->READ MORE HERE
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s schools chancellor is a race-obsessed apparatchik for extreme leftist, anti-merit policy, critics told The Post.
Kamar Samuels, a longtime educator with a history of dismantling Gifted & Talented programs, served as a superintendent of school districts repping parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn before Mamdani tapped him to head the nation’s largest school system.
As a superintendent for District 13 in downtown Brooklyn and then District 3 on the Upper West Side, he pushed for a bevy of woke policies while regularly holding “antiracist” and “equity” town halls.
“I don’t like him, I’ve never liked him; he came in as an ideologue,” a DOE official told The Post, adding he thinks Samuels is an “idiot.”
Samuels, 48, called the shots in District 13 before being appointed by then-Mayor Eric Adams in 2022 to lead District 3.
The longtime educator promoted and hosted multiple “Anti-Racist Town Hall” events in both boroughs dedicated to pushing a woke agenda in the name of equity. Guest speakers included far-left Brooklyn Councilwoman Crystal Hudson in February 2022.
“You are invited to join D3 town hall: A courageous conversation about equity,” he posted in 2023.
“District 13 continues our conversation on serving all students in an Anti-Racist District tonight at 7pm when we hear from students at MS 266 and PS 133! Tuesday, June 7 @ 7:00 pm Anti-Racist Town Hall,” Samuels posted in June 2022.
Samuels was so color-obsessed that he couldn’t help but race-bait on social media after comedian Chris Rock was slapped by actor Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars. --->READ MORE HERE
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