"Two-fifths of Montgomery students are considered gifted on the basis of aptitude tests, schoolwork, expert opinion and parents' wishes. Officials say the approach slights the rest of the students who are not so labeled. White and Asian American students are twice as likely as blacks and Hispanics to be identified as gifted."
The best classes I ever had in school were the ones for gifted students. Back then it was called the “accelerated” program. The regular classes were too often a boring waste of time. I thought many of the teachers were stupid. With the perspective of 30+ years, I still think so.
“White and Asian American students are twice as likely as blacks and Hispanics to be identified as gifted.”
The Bell Curve, huh?
But, orientals (”Asians”) aren’t true minorities, because they don’t fit the mold of being oppressed by whitey.
Being a retired veteran of the Talented and Gifted classes, I can tell you first hand, it is NOT a label that helps them in school. Youu may just as well give them pocket protectors and taped birth control glasses.
They get ridiculed from everyone else in the school, just because they have an aptitude for learning the basics of education.
20%? That seems awfully high. Maybe the standards for the gifted label have been lowered, because in my day, it was more like 1%.
The public school system has been about the systematic dumbing down of the population for 40 years+, the election of Fauxbama is the culmination of their success in that regard.
Leaving your children in public school when you have any means available not to, is pure and simple child abuse, period.