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A comment on California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones. Parent comment

Re:California's most neglected group of students: the gifted... by vitehozonage on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @01:06PM (#42248183)
> From the start we assume that the gifted deserve more from public school, thus we call them "neglected" when they seem to be simply treated the same.

If you have a group of animals where most of them are dogs but a few are cats, then use statistics to justify treating them all like dogs, that is not fair to the cats, is it?

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Re:California's most neglected group of students: the gifted... by scarmig on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @01:26PM (#42248411)
The issue is deeper than that: it's that we take some singular conception of what a dog is, and ruthlessly beat any deviation from that idealized dog out of all the individual dogs. Which ends up being every dog.
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Re:California's most neglected group of students: the gifted... by vitehozonage on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @02:52PM (#42249306)
Well said. The unusual dogs are just beaten more
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