Originally Posted by Val
An enormous percentage of the population isn't cognitively gifted, and allowing educators to make themselves feel better by pretending that half the class can be in a gifted program is lying, and everyone knows it. I suppose this is what happens when status is the most important issue in an school system.

The problem is that in the minds of many people, gifted = unearned status.

Who was the moron who decided that "gifted" was a way to describe this particular cohort of people?

That's half the problem right here.

Of course everyone wants their children to be "gifted"!

Gifted = better = Winning!

Last edited by JonLaw; 01/14/13 10:54 AM.