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> tradeoffs must be made Does that mean we also get rid of IEP programs for the learning disabled?

• Karrot_Kream 5y ago
  I think you're reading a position in my comment that I'm not taking. I'm not somehow implying that if you open the conversation to wider perspectives that you'll find broad support for eliminating gifted programs. On the contrary, as someone from a poor school district (that also barely had an IEP program btw, most IEP students were bused elsewhere if they bothered to even stay in school), I have fairly mixed feelings on the whole thing. What I mean to say is: when talking about education policy, think about aggregate outcomes. Not just the outcomes for yourself, your friends, or your cohort. You went to school and your general contractor went to school. Both of you should succeed.
  • thereisnospork 5y ago
    My general contractor doesn't need to know organic chemistry, but my doctor does[0]. A public school system that is incapable of creating doctor's, the intellectual 'elite', is not in society's interest. [0]Why they 'need' to know it is another question.
    • TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
      Right! And my public high school offered metal shop and welding classes as well as AP chemistry and bio. Is that not financially possible for most high schools?
      • Karrot_Kream 5y ago
        I don't know about most, but my school defunded shop classes because they didn't have the money and it was easier on optics to cut shop classes than AP classes, despite the students in our school often failing AP exams if they took them.