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Today's ideology of equity is too fanatical to deal with real-world facts: use exam-based admissions for elite public schools and over 60% of the students are Asian-Americans, often from lower-income families. A result that shows 'white supremacy' is not barring the way to education for minorities.

The real world result contradicts the woke ideology so much their solution is to conceal the facts by shutting down gifted school classes. "Anti-racist mathematics", frighteningly easy to find on google, focus on ways to avoid judging or ranking students by "perceived mathematical ability" and that there is no right or wrong answer.

This new ideology remains blind to the concept that some people are innately more gifted than others, for example Stephen Wolfram, John von Neumann, Freeman Dyson and many others, all of whom completed major research in mathematics in their early teens.

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