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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by lupire on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:38PM (#31671096)
What you don't understand is that advanced classes have limited seats available compared to students who want them.
Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by brewdad on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:17PM (#31671781)
Not really. Any teacher qualified to teach HS math should be able to teach anything up to pre-Calc. If you have more Algebra students ahead of grade level than usual, you shift a teacher away from pre-Algebra and into teaching Algebra I.
Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by rhino369 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:15PM (#31672560)
That's not what the progressive complain about. But if that is true, the obvious solution is to create more spots.

If the same people wouldn't complain about disparate failure rates, I'd even support making them open enrollment, but weeding people out based on performance. But we all know, people would just claim the classes are racist.

Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by _-david-_ on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:48PM (#31672214)
And do they choose who gets into the class by race?