Originally Posted by indigo
Unfortunately, the schools seem to be aware of this at some level... taken to the extreme, this may lead to the myth that gifted kids will do fine on their own, without school support, throughout their educational "careers".
As a statistical generalization the "myth" is true -- even in a state like Massachusetts where there is very little gifted programming, gifted children "will do fine" in the sense of going to college and getting good jobs at higher rates than non-gifted kids. With gifted programming they might do even better, but policymakers are not thinking about that.