Originally Posted by DeeDee
Originally Posted by blackcat
intervention teachers who pull kids with special needs with math/reading (the other end of the spectrum).

Blackcat, pardon me, but could we please stop calling kids who need intervention "the other end" of anything?

Giftedness is a special educational need that requires intervention. Many kids need specially planned interventions at various times during their education, and there are many kinds of intervention, but there is not a "top" or a "bottom" or a "better" or a "worse" here.
I don't think she said anything wrong. A big reason educators and policymakers are unwilling to acknowledge that there are children with high IQs is that this immediately raises the possibility that there are children with low IQs, a fact that they would like to ignore. On this forum we should be able to speak honestly and clearly but not disrespectfully about differences in intelligence.