Gifted and talented programs in schools were a total waste of time in my experience. I would have much rather been given more challenging math problems to solve

Gifted and talented programs in schools were a total waste of time in my experience. I would have much rather been given more challenging math problems to solve or additional books to read. Also, the vast majority of kids in those programs were not academically "gifted." The number of comments I see on Reddit from people who say they were in gifted programs but are now working as unskilled labor suggests that my experience with these programs was typical. With that out of the way, I support tracking, but not the broad brush tracking that is done today. There are a few kids who could advance very quickly if tracked. The rest should be thrown in with everybody else, with resources given to the kids who have little home support to help them not fall behind. There is nothing challenging about the pace of current high tracks, and everybody without a learning disability should be able to keep up.