Eliminating gifted programming in the public education system is anti-egalitarian.
It reduces opportunity for lower income households to provide their children with ability-appropriate education.
I agree with all of your comments in your post and would particularly like to highlight your first two statements and speak to the hypocrisy of, if not deliberate sabotage by, those who hold the power to enact these changes to the public education system, whilst their own children continue to gain the benefits of the private school sector which is free to ignore these policies.
