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[quote=Anonymous]Nothing has changed since I was in school in the 1980's. My parents provided tutoring for me and my younger brother with Learning Disabilities and enrichment for my older brothers who were GT.  They sent my brothers to summer camps for GT kids. I worked with a specialist over the summer, my younger brother worked with a tutor who specialized in dyslexia 2 days a week for years. The public schools were not fully meeting any of our needs, so my parents supplemented.

And yes, that is the benefit that comes from having educated, informed parents with means. We all got the extra support that we needed that the public schools could not provide.

It is the same situation today. Kids with IEPs will have extra support but that support will not meet their full needs. It will do help them get to the baseline that is required by the schools because that is what the schools are legally obligated to support and because it is expensive to get many kids to that bar, never mind above it. The schools will provide some additional programming for smart/advanced/GT kids but they are not going to provide anything that is going to really engage the kids who are GT and who are advanced. Parents have to supplement.

And yes, the same thing happens in sports. The kids who come from families who can provide tutoring or coaching or supplementing are likely to be the kids who rise to the top. You have the occassional kid who comes from nothing and rises to the top story but those are rare. I worked with someone who came from an impoverished background, managed to go to college, served in the military, and was living an MC life now. He was proud of what he did. We would talk about his classmates and siblings who are living in the same town with minimum wage jobs, on disability, or in jail. The "pull yourself up by the boot straps" stories are rare. [/quote]

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