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A comment on The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021). Parent comment

Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by sokoloff on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:04PM (#31673240)
That's exactly my point. There's a system today that has some amount of arbitrariness to it. Tweaking that system slightly is almost surely arbitrariness-preserving, likely not increasing or decreasing it significantly.
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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by TameAntelope on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:03PM (#31674122)
My point is that it's increasing the arbitrariness by further constricting the qualified students pool.

Instead, accept they're all qualified insofar as they would maximally benefit from advanced lessons, and favor students for whom this may be their only opportunity to get ahead.

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