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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They lived in the poorest and most downtrodden neighborhoods and they had just as much if not more integrity and wit in their little fingers than most...and they were hungrier and worked harder."

For whatever it may be worth, I didn't find this at all in my gifted magnet middle school in L.A. during the years racial quotas determined admission. The poorest kids seemed generally competent, but although they needed to work harder to keep up, they were still the kids most likely to blow off assignments.

Only a few students from the whole school stood out as really precociously gifted early teens. As it happens, all of those kids were from educated (but not necessarily particularly high income) families.[/quote]

I was the PP and this is true. There were indeed poor kids with harder family lives who borderline kept up with coursework and blew off assignments, and maybe there were more of them than the privileged kids who did the very same thing, I don't know. (I am assuming you also saw this at your LA school?) Bottom line was regardless of how hard or little one worked, there were standards and if the student didn't meet them, he/she was asked to leave the school. [/quote]

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