You’re experience must be an anomaly based on other comments and my anecdotes. When I went through school, the gifted courses were just advanced level classes that you had to meet a minimum threshold to be able to join. By highschool for us, you were picking which classes and electives you wanted to take plus the required classes each semester, so everyone one of my classes had different people in it. Everyone had to take biology, gifted or not, but the gifted could take algebra earlier than the rest of us.
I was not in the gifted classes, but one of my best mates was. He graduated with honors, graduated from university early with a double major in Biology and physics and never paid a penny in tuition. He got accepted to a very reputable medical school where he graduated with honors, and didn’t pay for tuition because he joined the military which paid for his med school, granted him guaranteed residency, and paid him an extra 40k a year during his residency. He’s now the chief of cardiology at his location.
I also graduated with another kid that graduated highschool as a junior in college with all of the college courses he took. He did not participate in the gifted kids classes but he was extremely smart. He never graduated college and last I heard he was a manager at a local theater.
Point being, your comment is a major generalization that I don’t believe is supported by fact. I don’t doubt that some places did handle gifted kids poorly, but I’d argue that wasn’t the norm.
You’re experience must be an anomaly based on other comments and my anecdotes. When I went through school, the gifted courses were just advanced level classes that you had to meet a minimum threshold to be able to join. By highschool for us, you were picking which classes and electives you wanted to take plus the required classes each semester, so everyone one of my classes had different people in it. Everyone had to take biology, gifted or not, but the gifted could take algebra earlier than the rest of us.
I was not in the gifted classes, but one of my best mates was. He graduated with honors, graduated from university early with a double major in Biology and physics and never paid a penny in tuition. He got accepted to a very reputable medical school where he graduated with honors, and didn’t pay for tuition because he joined the military which paid for his med school, granted him guaranteed residency, and paid him an extra 40k a year during his residency. He’s now the chief of cardiology at his location.
I also graduated with another kid that graduated highschool as a junior in college with all of the college courses he took. He did not participate in the gifted kids classes but he was extremely smart. He never graduated college and last I heard he was a manager at a local theater.
Point being, your comment is a major generalization that I don’t believe is supported by fact. I don’t doubt that some places did handle gifted kids poorly, but I’d argue that wasn’t the norm.