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In my experience it doesn't require accepting that at all. Most students in my GT program were average at best with ambitious parents. A minority of us had no t
by untalentedturd 4y ago
In my experience it doesn't require accepting that at all. Most students in my GT program were average at best with ambitious parents. A minority of us had no tutors, study programs or other leg up for the standardized test used to select GT students. But most students were there for their parents' prestige.
I'm still a fan of GT though, at least it means the school system has to provide a decent education to some students. Plus it was a pretty big deal for those of us not coming from privilege.
- dwater 4y agoThat was my experience as well in the 90's. The biggest difference was the behavior of the students, which allowed the class to move at a faster pace. Gifted and Talented was certainly a misnomer, but the environment that behavior enabled was a benefit to everyone in the classroom across all levels of gifts and talents.
- empressplay 4y agoThis was also my experience in the early 90s, which was frustrating (at the time) because in the 1980s admission was based on IQ tests and in those programs we did a lot of cool things! (computer programming, robotics, rockets, chemistry, biology etc. etc.) High-achieving students could skip grades if they wanted to, but the program itself wasn't just doing more of the same, and I valued that.