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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a good thing that the PP didn't actually say that.

And, speaking for myself -- I have no problem with education for the gifted, in principle. I have a big problem with the parents who are proponents of gifted education and whose rhetoric consists of:

1. All those other kids get stuff; how come my kid doesn't?
2. Gifted kids contribute more to society than non-gifted kids.[/quote]

Nobody exactly said either of those things, but since you brought them up, let's explore those questions...  who thinks sports contributes more to society, given that's how we treat and fund sports as opposed to other programs?  Why are sports programs more valuable than G&T?  Why should athletes get stuff but other kids don't?  And why would anyone "have a problem" with someone asking about those things when there's evidently no problem with the situation being reversed?[/quote]

Yes, people did, and do. For example, the OP: how come gifted athletes get stuff and gifted students don't? (I'm assuming that OP has a child the OP considers gifted.) And the PP immediately before my post: gifted athletes get brain trauma, gifted students find a cure for malaria. I don't understand this obsession on the part of the parents-of-gifted-children lobby with athletics, and I find the envy of the resources of special ed. shameful.[/quote]

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