How would you feel if your bright child was denied admission to a public school gifted and talented program because another child, who had scored lower on the qualifying test, was accepted due to the other child having a sibling already in that program? You would probably feel angry. You most likely would be upset. You certainly would not feel good.
Yet precisely that unfair, weird, unmeritocratic situation exists today in New York City. Whether or not it is illegal, it is wrong, immoral and should be changed.
