To the Editor: There is needless strife surrounding the proposed abolition of traditional “gifted and talented” programs in our schools. In my experience, they have sometimes been created mostly to pander to pushy parents who fantasize their kids having a leg-up in the race to bourgeois prosperity.
Although the exceptions were innumerable, they were also anecdotal. Most of the kids in the “Special Progress” classes that I taught (and in which I was briefly placed in middle school as a student) were not particularly happy in their studies and felt exploited and occasionally embarrassed by their parents.
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