Milpitas Post reader Stacy Shupps Brobst posted on the newspaper's Facebook page: "Bad move for those that need teachers that know about GATE students' needs. Their needs will not be met within the regular curriculum. Too bad. I bet many will leave."
The ironic thing is that the gifted kids whose parents will finally say, "Enough; homeschool" or "Enough; private school" are helping to push up the average scores on those high stakes tests that the schools are so beholden to. So the schools are not exactly helping themselves there.
Not that GATE programs are anything super-special anyway, but it's so sad that even that scrap from the table of education is gone, too.
