Well public schools use tax money and are charged with addressing all kids’ special needs. Including the super bright ones. That’s why. As someone who was in the gifted class and also had a kid in gifted class, yes, it’s important. If you have ever been in a class where the stupidity of the level of students had you impatient and upset, you get it.
Yep, been there. My son, as well. You have to keep an eye the public schools all the time. They get extra funding for students that need special classes. That right there explains their need to dumb the students down.
“If you have ever been in a class where the stupidity of the level of students had you impatient and upset, you get it.”
That was me all through grade school and high school, with a lot of boredom thrown in. There was no gifted and talented program in either school.
In second grade, I remember reading the reader on the first day and thinking, “Now what?”
I was in a G&T track back in elementary and high school. Then engineering in college.
The people who are cutting these classes are being very short sighted. I am retired now, but over the course of my career I invented things that created dozens, possibly hundreds, of new jobs for Americans. Right here in the USA.
Eliminate these classes and the US loses part of our competitive edge in the world economy. Especially if they are eliminated in favor of insuring mediocrity.
Well, yeah, public school is a government program, and government programs use tax money.
We all should be pushing for drastic cuts in government spending and big cuts in taxes.
Public schools should be a low-cost safety net and nothing more.