Girl,
My mother taught GT. I wonder what parish are you referring to? You're talking about LA, cause we're the only state in the union that uses parishes...lol Anyway, she always said it was a form of SEGREGATION. Of all the students she had, she may have had 5 blacks out of 80. Many of the parents hired a psychologist to give them a order that says that their child is gifted. If there is a private order, that supercedes the order of the evaluation a school district may give, even if the evaluation given by the school district said otherwise
. Many of "our" students could be gifted, but many lack the resources or the knowledge to persue that avenue. That could be another reason our kids have behavior problems, because the work is too easy, as opposed to saying that the kid is dumb, stupid, or can't read. Remember that episode of A Different World where there was a kid Whitley or Dwayne mentored or something and they found out that girl was "gifted in a way" because she was able to rewire some gadgets like the phone, the doorbell, etc?
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because her students ate with everyone and had their break time with everyone, but they all had the same courses with the GT teachers.
Yet, here in my school district, the GT program is different. Where when my mother taught it, the students had basically all academic courses, but on a hight plane. Here, the students have a certain area where they excell, maybe arts (music, drawing, etc) not strictly academics.