Kudos to you for helping to raise awareness. I hope you'll keep repeating your statements (both the research/facts and the questions regarding the district's due diligence in research), put them in writing, and encourage your team to do likewise.
kicked off her presentation to an audience comprised solely of parents of gifted students by describing the extent to which underachieving students feel a lack of belonging and self-esteem in the general education stream
Some may say this is a display of callous indifference to the needs and concerns of the audience. Being dismissive to the concerned parents of gifted children reminds me of the thread about
getting bullied because of gifts, especially
this post.
When we look at achievement scores of gifted and non-gifted students at high school graduation, we don't see a difference in achievement.
Some may understand this to mean they have been able to successfully manage the achievement of the gifted students downward, and to ignore any remaining differences by refusing to measure above a pre-determined ceiling. Sadly, the superintendent seems to consider this a success:
cutting down tall poppies, social engineering. There is a broad and widespread effort to force equal outcomes for all.
Some have absorbed decades of information on how to best educate and support the gifted and have utilized a strategy to apply the opposite techniques in attempt to stymy the development of the gifted, with a goal of creating uniformity in achievement.
get a private school off the ground
To commiserate, you may enjoy reading the story of the "
Animal School", especially the ending: starting a successful private school.
So glad that home schooling is an option, in the interim.
