Marc Smolowitz
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773 appearances
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2022
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I mean, it's important for listeners to understand that it's actually being targeted both from the right and the left.
And that's what makes it so tricky for people who care about gifted to really kind of convey why it matters, right?
When you have people coming at this from all sides saying it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong.
And this is why people like Joy Lawson Davis are actually so important, not just in our movie, but in this movement.
The fact that she is such an accomplished Black scholar who is focused on giftedness and who reminds us of the
Why of it all, why we have to not dismantle these programs, but actually fund them better and make them more robust.
We need scholars and activists like Joy in the room reminding people of the why of it all.
Um, I think what happens on the left, which is kind of where I live closer politically and ideologically, is that people start to see giftedness at this as this kind of old guard 20th century concept.
It then it
It kind of represents white, patriarchal, even white supremacy, right?
And they kind of put all things from the last century in that old guard way of thinking about things.
How could it be ever inclusive?
Because it's too kind of embroiled in all that mixed history, right?
And what Joy and Donna Ford and other people that Joy is working with in this collective called IRG, who are one of our partners, you know, on the movie, are working on and remind
Is that that is not the case, right?
Dismantling gifted programs is not going to make it easier to discover smart black and brown and poor children, right?
If we don't have any means of discovering them and encouraging them to meet their potential, like how will we ever know where they are?
So it feels like to me that there's a fundamental mismatch, right?
And like the conversation stops being super interesting when we say, oh, let's just
Male gifted programs, right?
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