See, I grew up in the era of the Gifted And Talented Program. You’d be in a neighborhood with a mix of kids and each kid would be evaluated to determine if they were a “GT” student. Then the GT students would be funneled into one set of classes and the Non-GT students would be funneled into another set of classes.
Take a wild guess what the economic and ethnic makeups of the GT v Non-GT classes were.
Don’t even get me started on gifted and talented. “He has no ability to focus on boring stuff, but he loves math and science. How about we let him avoid ever doing anything boring? I’m sure that’ll serve him well later in life.”
Yeah, I grew up in that era as well, and was one of the kids in middle school funneled into a GT class. I enjoyed it of course, but it for sure contributed to masking my ADHD until recently and that was a real kick in face.
See, I grew up in the era of the Gifted And Talented Program. You’d be in a neighborhood with a mix of kids and each kid would be evaluated to determine if they were a “GT” student. Then the GT students would be funneled into one set of classes and the Non-GT students would be funneled into another set of classes.
Take a wild guess what the economic and ethnic makeups of the GT v Non-GT classes were.
Don’t even get me started on gifted and talented. “He has no ability to focus on boring stuff, but he loves math and science. How about we let him avoid ever doing anything boring? I’m sure that’ll serve him well later in life.”
Yeah, I grew up in that era as well, and was one of the kids in middle school funneled into a GT class. I enjoyed it of course, but it for sure contributed to masking my ADHD until recently and that was a real kick in face.
It screwed me over in college because I wasn’t used to having to take notes or study. Suddenly I wasn’t able to pass just by showing up.