Re:Should gifted students go to a separate school?
by harpocrates on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:47PM
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This. Yes.
As someone who was classified as "gifted" and went to one of these special programs, your third point is a common occurrence.
All that aside though, I think the very notion of gifted-ness is harmful (in a labelling sense) to both the are's and the are-not's. Your first two points are relevant on this. For that reason, I'm not sure we should even discuss/judge gifted-ness, regardless of whether it even exists.
As someone who was classified as "gifted" and went to one of these special programs, your third point is a common occurrence.
All that aside though, I think the very notion of gifted-ness is harmful (in a labelling sense) to both the are's and the are-not's. Your first two points are relevant on this. For that reason, I'm not sure we should even discuss/judge gifted-ness, regardless of whether it even exists.