DD's GIFTED magnet constantly emphasizes that they are grooming "leaders." I find this distasteful, bordering on offensive. Are gifted children automatically more qualified to lead? That's interesting, since they're much more likely to be introverted. Are general education children NOT qualified to lead? Are they the "followers" at the school?
Well, the only relevant people in the modern financial hyper-economy are leaders.
And the masses, who you call "general education children" are certainly not qualified to lead.
If they were so qualified, they would not be "general education children" in the first place and instead would be leaders, and therefore relevant to the future.
Remember, most people fail to become leaders and drift aimlessly through life, bereft of purpose or meaning.
Only a select few, the best and the brightest become true leaders. They are the bright and shiny children that everyone adores because of their magnificent potential for future glory.
I think that the rest land on the industrial scrapheap somewhere in flyover country.
In the United States you can find entire states full of irrelevant non-leaders.
So, in any event, potential leaders automatically get noticed by the right people because their relevance is immediately obvious to the people who are responsible for noticing them.
