Submitted 1 month ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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The difference between most GT and Standard classes lies in your ability and willingness to put in extra work.
Half the kids in the standard classes just want to skate along as easily as possible. Why stress and work hard when you get the same exact outcome in the end? It’s not like they want to go on to college, so why work hard now?
It’s not that different in the workforce in many places.
Gifted And Talented was just segregation with extra steps.
You could buy your way in. You could be placed in the group by referral, without any testing. We had a developmentally disabled kid in our GT class, because his parents were rich and GT offered your kid far more resources than the standard school program.
The lowest common denominator of GT programs wasn’t IQ or GPA or number of spelling bee wins, but address and family income.
Good for him
This is a highly limited context of your experience and situated when you went to school and where you went. I can only talk about the TAG program in my district and they use testing and are very strict about it.
Our child was referred by a teacher and we were encouraged to pursue it. There’s more to say about the program and it’s role in society, but these type of comments preclude a discussion on child needs and wealth.
preclude a discussion on child needs
They indict the system precisely because of how it distributes resources for the children of Haves and Have-Nots.
Our child was referred by a teacher
“I was told that my kid isn’t like other kids” is always the bait at the end of these hooks. You’re not segregating, you’re elevating.
No real need to look back and ask why the broader structural issues of class size, teacher experience, and class room hours aren’t addressed holistically. Maybe the kids you left behind just don’t need those resources like your precious little muffin does.
Small town woes, lol.
Por que no los dos?
Were?
Felt this really hard as someone from the Philippines (currently having an education crisis) and whose intelligence was glazed too often lmao
I think maybe substitute the word planet for towns.
candyman337@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Jesus, there’s some real intellectual elitism being displayed in this thread. Like I understand that the American education system is shitty and a large portion of the population is just functionally literate, and I understand the frustration of having to deal with those types of people and having to explain things to them. But, that’s one thing, it’s another to call them idiots or see them as lesser. They’re most likely not idiots, it probably just means they didn’t have extra help like you did as a kid to better understand some of the things you did. You should never look down upon someone for being less intelligent or less educated than you. Those things are not the entirety of what make up a person’s worth. Everyone deserves the same base level of respect.