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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to derail - but I just read an interesting article about how minority kids aren't singled out for gifted programs. Stark contrasts exist all over the country when it comes to identifying GT kids from less advantaged homes. It was depressing.[/quote]

Very true - I don't know if I saw the same article you did (could your provide the link?), but minority children often have to score much higher to get into gifted or magnet programs that majority children in many districts. In some places, magnet schools and gifted programs were just a way to segregate out wealthy, white students from the riff-raff, as it were.[/quote]

At our school--the pushy parents get their kids in the program.  There is only so much space with the GT teacher.  At our school it's not a problem since about 75-80% of the regular class would qualify under the gifted guidelines--the kids that don't have parents pushing or going to the Principal about it are still being appropriately challenged.  I laugh because my kids scores off the charts on their standardized test, made their 'honor/principal' list every quarter and he wasn't in the pull-out group.  He's still not been identified as GT even with test scores that warrant it but is in the 'high' math group, etc.  I don't care because, again, at our school it only equates to more homework something we don't want.

BUT--I can see in an environment with many, many underperforming kids how important it would be for those kids/minorities to be properly identified since--most likely--it wouldn't be a scenario like with my kids.  They aren't being guaranteed to be appropriately challenged.[/quote]

A magnet school could help South, in terms of kids who are performing at level or above, but then we're splitting kids up... *sigh*[/quote]

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