There are hundreds of QTs from Nazis talking about how they were the smartest kids ever but the damn (((education system))) hampered them, and anyone who doesn't believe that they're hyper geniuses is simply a seething lib.
You're supposed to get over the "I was a gifted kid" stuff by the time you're 20.
im pretty sure the whole idea was conceived to subdivide educational funds into competing programs to fight over ever-decreasing scraps instead of collectively figuring out why there's no fucking money
kids particularly good at something just take a higher level course in that subject there's absolutely no reason for anything beyond that except what grifters and evil neoliberals foisted on schools to squeeze the last few cents out