Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Rising scholarship funds to rising college costs

Pretty sure that it isn't parents of gifted children who want limitations on the numbers of participants in anything.



TigerParents care about prestige. Good gifted parents care about appropriate learning environments, and (in general) are not so concerned about the terminology being used to describe them.

The issue there is that any learning environment that is appropriate for HG+ children immediately attains a certain prestige, making it a gatekeeping problem, which then turns it into yet another barrier for families who lack resources to overcome the gatekeeping mechanism.