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Forgive me if this seems all too simple to me. The solution is very clearly stop doing that then. There's a lot of value in having a gifted track in schooling.

• bena 4y ago
  The problem, as always, is people. You can't self-select to be evaluated. Your parents can advocate, but they ultimately don't decide either. Although I think they can turn down the evaluation, I'm unclear on that though. The first hurdle is getting the teacher to not only recognize that the child may be gifted, but to make the recommendation to administration. Then it is administration who ultimately makes the call on whether or not to evaluate the kid. And teachers are more likely to recommend white students than black students. And this may not even be something they're consciously aware of doing. Because a lot of this is based on the teachers' perceptions of students. If you have a good rapport with a student, you're more likely to recommend them to be evaluated. If you are constantly butting heads with a kid, or if the kid is just quietly doing their work, you're not going to be inclined to recommend them. Regardless of how well they are doing in class. I was not evaluated until partway through my freshman year of high school and the only reason I was was because the teacher who ran the Quiz Bowl team got everyone who made it on the team who wasn't already in the gifted program evaluated. Otherwise, I probably would not have been evaluated at all.
• colinmhayes 4y ago
  That is exactly what the article says...
• jeremyjh 4y ago
  Yes, that is why the SP was written.