There are problems with just giving automatically minority and poor students easier access into the gifted program by allowing them to achieve a lower score to get in. What if your child is Hispanic but the parents are both lawyers and wealthy? Is that really fair?
Out here in California, we had the famous DeBakke case that ultimately led to the Supreme Court striking down most of the affirmitive action laws. In that case, a white male college student argued that it was unfair that the University of California medical schools set aside 10% (or whatever the percentage was) of the incoming class for minorities. He got rejected from the med school, and he argued that minorities with lower scores, etc. got in over him. He later went to a private medical school and became a doctor, and years later, that ruling led to elimination of race solely as a factor for admission.
I was curious if other gifted programs in your districts have faced this issue.
I agree, I think it's all about the money.
