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Not accepting the reality that some people are more or less gifted/talented is objectively worse.

• drewcoo 4y ago
  Citation needed. In my state I was in Talented and Gifted (TAG) programs. My own experience is that TAG-style teaching would have helped everyone I knew, certainly in grade school. And when it's doled out unevenly, that creates a caste system if it wasn't there and reinforces it if it already existed. On the one hand, it harms all the non-TAG kids by withholding education. Curricula to withhold education in schools - the irony! On the other hand, it harms the TAG kids by creating social barriers. And those students, in my experience, are one of the groups in school most likely to have existing problems with socialization. TAG as it exists in US public schools harms all students.
  • infamouscow 4y ago
    You've constructed a straw-man rather than address the central point some people are more or less gifted/talented. For millions of students the education system is the only ticket out of poverty for themselves and their families. To ignore that because it might make some people feel uncomfortable is absolute nonsense and misses the point entirely. The people uncomfortable with that should be asking themselves why they feel that way, repeatedly. Denying everyone these opportunities because some students aren't gifted/talented is deranged, unnatural, and genuinely evil.
    • candiodari 4y ago
      > Denying everyone these opportunities because some students aren't gifted/talented is deranged, unnatural, and genuinely evil. So we should deny everyone opportunities because some people are denied opportunities even when we try to give them? You know, some people drown, others don't. It's often just not fair. I'd hate to hear your solution to this.