> By cutting gifted programs, the top students from low-income backgrounds will lose out
Agreed.
> gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the students who are fit for their programs
Does anyone have a solution for this?
Agreed.
> gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the students who are fit for their programs
Does anyone have a solution for this?
I think you could get a sufficiently gifted class just from splitting kids who gave a crap about school and those who have parents who viewed it as daycare and kids who viewed it as a place to be unruly.
> Does anyone have a solution for this?
I hardly remember my gifted program at all, but I thought it was just taking the students with the best grades. Isn't that basically the point of grades?
Maybe my school just implemented it poorly.
Some parents pay hundreds of dollars an hour for tutoring for their kids (as young as 4 years old) to score well on the gifted and talented tests.
And it works. (To an extent. I imagine such tutoring could bring a student in the 85th percentile into the 95th percentile, for example)
As a result the program favors kids whose parents have more money.