Was your gifted program just a class of high performing students or was it a group of people who scored 130+ on IQ tests?
Mine was the latter and we only had 7 ppl, while for some people (i guess) gifted was for people who did well in classes.
Which was yours?
It's a cultural/societal experience that many experienced in isolation and talking about this weird remnant of education reform isn't hurting anyone, we're not using it as an excuse for the world being bad