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[quote=Anonymous]I'll start off by saying that I have no idea what the VADOE is planning to do and I haven't read any of their documents.  What I do know is that there are, and always have been, people who would like to believe that giftedness is a purely social construct - and who, for that reason, would prefer to eliminate all forms of AAP and Advanced Math.

There's nothing wrong with believing that - giftedness is certainly at least in part a social construct.  It's a problem, though, to assume that it's an absolute, because there will always be a cohort of unavoidably gifted students who will be underserved if they're not recognized as such.  If we were to do away with Advanced Math and/or the notion of giftedness, we'd be reviving the long-resolved struggle where we succeeded in realizing that gifted kids are smart and a benefit to society, rather than an abnormality, and inconvenience, or an existential threat to conformity.

Worth mentioning, because the philosophical currents at play are known and always recognizable - once again, nothing wrong with the belief that giftedness is a social construct, but the counterweights to the belief are weak enough these days that I could plausibly see someone really trying to get rid of Advanced Math, and bringing on all of the predictably unintended damage as a result.[/quote]

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