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This is why frugal public school systems never put much emphasis on G&T curriculum until integration, and then G&T programs were invented as an alternative for parents who considered their kids part of an elite group that deserved a higher level of education.
A way to learn what, how fast. If some of them them get a mile ahead of the pack they are called "gifted". With just a little help they could have gone ten miles and there might be 5 times as many.
Would a National Recommended Reading List cost too much?
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Do you really think that a kid that is gifted needs a reading list? Or, that a reading list would inspire anyone to read more than public libraries?
Is there ANYTHING that isn't offered over the internet that a Gifted kid cannot access??
No.
The only justification for G&T programs today is to force public school systems to budget a program that satisfies parents who want to segregate their kids from the system's General Population which includes the poor and the dark.
IF the school system left the gifted alone so they could pursue whatever education they wished you might have a point. That's the purpose of gifted programs. To segregate the students with advanced ability away from the poor, the dark and the stupid. Unless the poor and dark are gifted also. Nothing is going to help the stupid.