The whole ridiculous Gifted & Talented thing is hoax, put together to make certain parents feel better about themselves. Flame away.
Common reaction from non-gifteds.
That's one of the reasons for special GT classes, jealousy and resentment from "normals."
Y'all belong with your own kind.
It didn't start out as a hoax, but political correctness has certainly been taking it more and more in that direction.
You know, someone could make a similar snide remark about your comment--that it's designed to make certain parents who don't have gifted and talented children feel better about themselves. Its all the kind of talk that is uncalled for. The point is simply to match children to an academic environment appropriate to their intellectual ablities--and if the school district has the curriculum, their artistic or other talents.
>The whole ridiculous Gifted & Talented thing is hoax, put together to make certain parents feel better about themselves.
I agree with you. Gifted and talented classes are a tax supported private school. Most of the people who use them can afford real private schools. There is nothing worse than listening to a parent with children in gifted and talented classes putting down parents who have had to pull their kids out of public schools.
No flames here. An anecdote, though: When my daughter was in 4th grade, she went to a school near Auburn, California. Interestingly enough, the principal of the school and one of the teachers were married to each other, and their two children were both GATE students at the school. GATE programs are created for liberal elitists, so they can have the necessary exception to thier own liberal doctrine of Equality in Mediocrity. Thus, they don't have to send their kids to private schools.