Schools and so-called educators have managed to water down the term ‘gifted.’
Mozart was gifted, not little Timmy who passed a few exams.
When there is a ‘gifted’ program in every school or system and they manage to find students to fill it every year, then nobody is ‘gifted.’
Ironically, having a ‘gifted’ program for students working slightly ahead of grade level simply provides a contrast to the bog-standard lowest-common-denominator quality of everyday public education.
>>Schools and so-called educators have managed to water down the term ‘gifted.’<<
I know... for pete’s sake, they were about to place ten kids in “gifted” classes who couldn’t even achieve “proficiency” under the new standards. Proficiency is like getting a C. Gifted my arse.
In our school district to get into a GT Center program a kid has to take an independently administered IQ test, and achieve at least 140. At least that’s how it used to be.