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> > gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the students who are fit for their programs > Does anyone have a solution for this? I hardly rememb
by 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 agoThe 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.