Fruchter died on Jan. 4 after a car struck him near his Brooklyn home in late December. He was a leader in some of the most pivotal education battles of the past half century.
Anti-racism invokes harmful stereotypes that used to be uttered only by racists. Removing education standards will make it impossible to evaluate a diploma.
A New York mayoral candidate and ex-MSNBC contributor who wants to end racist testing to determine who gets into the city s elite schools had her own daughter use the program - while her other daughter attends a $51,000-a-year private school.
Maya Wiley called for the abolition of the city s Gifted and Talented program to identify high-achieving students and the removal of all forms of pre-admission testing, claiming they entrenched white privilege .
Despite this, she sent her eldest daughter to Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted and Talented, using the exact program she wants to abolish.
Her youngest daughter, meanwhile, wasn t even in the New York City public school system: She went to Brooklyn Friends, an expensive private school.