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> By cutting gifted programs, the top students from low-income backgrounds will lose out Agreed. > gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the

• MattGaiser 5y ago
  Do they do a bad job? I think you could get a sufficiently gifted class just from splitting kids who gave a crap about school and those who have parents who viewed it as daycare and kids who viewed it as a place to be unruly.
• icedchai 5y ago
  I was an 80's gifted student in 4th through 6th grade. They basically used standardized tests (like the California Achievement Test), followed by an in-person, interview-style "IQ" test with a psychologist. For a 9 year old kid this was a bit overwhelming.
• xboxnolifes 5y ago
  > > gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the students who are fit for their programs > Does anyone have a solution for this? I hardly remember my gifted program at all, but I thought it was just taking the students with the best grades. Isn't that basically the point of grades? Maybe my school just implemented it poorly.
  • dfdz 5y ago
    The problem is related to test prep. Some parents pay hundreds of dollars an hour for tutoring for their kids (as young as 4 years old) to score well on the gifted and talented tests. And it works. (To an extent. I imagine such tutoring could bring a student in the 85th percentile into the 95th percentile, for example) As a result the program favors kids whose parents have more money.