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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a FFX GT kid back when it was GT and even then it was mostly bullshit.  They put centers in poorer schools with low test scores to bring the average test scores up, which means you’re busing in a bunch of rich kids with tutors and parents who do their science fairs projects for them into schools where kids are more likely to be receiving free lunch and not have as much academic support at home.  In those rare occasions where the two groups interact—-recess, band/orchestra, there were serious class-and-race-based incidents.  Rich parents take over the PTA and push for pricy field trips that only the rich kids can afford, they allocate funds for the GT classes to have special experiences and assemblies that lead to more resentment between the two groups, and the rich GT students treat even the poor GT kids like crap (“Wait, you live in an apartment? I thought only poor people did that?”).

AAP and GT centers are disproportionately filled with kids who come from higher ranked schools in rich neighborhoods.  Until each neighborhood school sends the same number of kids to the center instead of 40 kids from each great falls school per grade and one kid from herndon per grade, these centers will stay elitist and not full of the kids who could actually benefit from gifted education.[/quote]

I think it depends on the center.  My kids attend a center with many minority kids in AAP.  I don't see the kids treating each other poorly.  Maybe the difference is most of the higher SES families are UMC and not super wealthy, so you don't have the same degree of classism.[/quote]

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