Yeah a lot of times private schools aren’t much different then public ones. Especially here, all the teachers take the same education classes. And they are all ridiculously liberal oriented. I don’t think I took a single class that actually taught me how to teach math. It was all about how wonderful multiculturalism is. And how to value each student. Of course they never actually talked about the gifted kids. Those were not to be valued all that much. I think the education system is afraid of the gifted children, they know they are so much smarter than anybody in the education system.
most math and finance teachers I remember, especially in college, had their back to the class, writing on the board and talking to themselves. It was a joke. Thank goodness we had labs. I actually worked in a college lab and helped people, until I was hired to teach ESL. And I helped some of my fellow students get through math. I’m not a math genius but there are basic rules, and understanding of the problem helps a lot.
Where I lived in CA some school districts discontinued gifted or advanced classes because it wasn’t fair that few minorities couldn’t test into them.