{"id":575676,"date":"2021-08-02T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/?post_type=article&p=575676"},"modified":"2021-08-02T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:05:00","slug":"adams-simone-biles-demonstrated-that-if-youre-in-an-untenable-situation-you-have-to-get-out-the-same-goes-for-public-school-families","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/adams-simone-biles-demonstrated-that-if-youre-in-an-untenable-situation-you-have-to-get-out-the-same-goes-for-public-school-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams: Simone Biles Demonstrated that If You\u2019re in an Untenable Situation, You Have to Get Out. The Same Goes for Public School Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>hen I first planned to write an Olympics-themed post, back in 2020, I was going to talk about Simone Biles\u2019 athletic feats being deliberately underscored<\/a> due to \u201ca fear that Biles is so good<\/a> that she might run away with any competition she enters simply by doing a handful of moves that her rivals cannot, or dare not, attempt.\u201d Biles\u2019 response at the time was, \u201cThey don\u2019t want the field to be too far apart<\/a>. And that\u2019s just something that\u2019s on them. That\u2019s not on me. They had an open-ended code of points and now they\u2019re mad that people are too far ahead and excelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was going to compare it to how New York City keeps tweaking the Specialized High School Admissions Test in a desperate bid to change which students<\/a> perform best on it. How Hunter College Elementary and High School and The Special Music School<\/a>, not to mention screened high schools<\/a> and middle schools<\/a>, refuse to explain the subjective metrics they use to admit their students. I was going to talk about the ongoing attempts to cut honors classes<\/a>, Advanced Placement classes<\/a> and gifted-and-talented programs<\/a> in the name of equity, as well as the push for quotas at all schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n