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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp, your arguments are unpersuasive and even false.

1.  No one takes money away from children with special learning needs to benefit gifted kids.  Special Ed is funded federally by law with lots of money and special accommodations.  AAP gets no additional money other than bussing.  And truly gifted kids are special needs but receive no money by law.

4.  Parents of athletically talented kids and athletic kids routinely disregard kids who are no strong athletically.[/quote]

Academically gifted kids are far more likely to be bullied, beaten up, harrassed, demoralized and torn down than athletically gifted kids are, yet it's the academically gifted who have far fewer supports in the school system as compared to athletically gifted students.  It shows extremely messed-up priorities in society that we care more about football than we do about things like science and engineering.  It's no wonder we are gradually backsliding to become a third-world country.[/quote]

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