From my observations as someone who was labeled gifted and attended a regular public school that happened to have a shit ton of gifted kids (like 50% of the class or something at one point), pretty much anyone who is social-economically privileged enough to be able to do extra curricular learning can pick up the skills needed to do well on the standardized tests that determine whether or not one is "gifted". The gifted students that attended that school were almost all upper-middle class and had educated parents (many of whom were engineers working in the nearby tech hub) who encouraged learning outside of school. Fucking sucks that extra resources are given to these people (special programs, scholarships etc.) who mostly don't actually need it. The concept of giftedness should be thrown out and the education system needs to be overhauled. Who the hell came up with such a stupid idea?
huh is that a thing in the States? At least in my particular case, pretty much anyone that got above X score on a standardized test qualified (majority of the gifted kids in that school happened to be asian). Like I know people who even gamed the system by retaking the test at a later age just to get into one of the programs.
Here in Klanada I remember being the only black person in the gifted program, although there was only three black families that sent kids to my school in the entire time I was there, and the gifted program had disproportionate (~1/3 in a city with a ~3% population according to census) east asian representation.
From my observations as someone who was labeled gifted and attended a regular public school that happened to have a shit ton of gifted kids (like 50% of the class or something at one point), pretty much anyone who is social-economically privileged enough to be able to do extra curricular learning can pick up the skills needed to do well on the standardized tests that determine whether or not one is "gifted". The gifted students that attended that school were almost all upper-middle class and had educated parents (many of whom were engineers working in the nearby tech hub) who encouraged learning outside of school. Fucking sucks that extra resources are given to these people (special programs, scholarships etc.) who mostly don't actually need it. The concept of giftedness should be thrown out and the education system needs to be overhauled. Who the hell came up with such a stupid idea?
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huh is that a thing in the States? At least in my particular case, pretty much anyone that got above X score on a standardized test qualified (majority of the gifted kids in that school happened to be asian). Like I know people who even gamed the system by retaking the test at a later age just to get into one of the programs.
Here in Klanada I remember being the only black person in the gifted program, although there was only three black families that sent kids to my school in the entire time I was there, and the gifted program had disproportionate (~1/3 in a city with a ~3% population according to census) east asian representation.
hmm, my gifted program was only like 7 people. Maybe yours was just higher placement classes? (Which 100% are segregated in many places)
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