Originally Posted by aquinas
As an aside: With the uphill battle many of our members face in getting administrators to take advocacy seriously, equating GT with a club would simply make the slope steeper.
School clubs do not affect the rest of the curriculum. Pull-out gifted programs in which students spend a few hours a week but otherwise get the regular curriculum may effectively be gifted clubs, except that they meet during regular school hours. Critics of doing anything for gifted kids are correct in saying that there is little research showing that such pull-out programs have a positive impact.