Instead of adding gifted classes, we should be adding more programs for the disabled. If they were so gifted, then they could compete with regular performing kids. Gifted classes are props for parents.
Gifted classes are a good thing in school because they aren't slowed the forget down and put to the "average level". People need those classes. They are gifted. They have gifts. They excel so much that they are put into classes that fit with their academic level.
Putting gifted children back into the average people group would be loving stupid as hell because you are throttling someone's academic thinking. It is like saying: "All super cars have to have the model of a loving Camry, but their engines can be the same! *wispers* it's just for the average cars!"
Also, giving people who literally cannot help society (in a large way), people like autistic and other extremely mental conditions, more budget to make them seem "normal" is an idiotic move.
1) It is stupid because it is worthless.
2) It is stupid because there are more academically "gifted" or "excelled" people in Honor or AP classes.
3) Spending money for a loss cause.
I'm not trying to seem mean, but we don't need "special" people seem normal (which can't happen, unless we give them a pill that cures their disorders/diseases). We most definitely need more courses at an earlier level that pushes kids harder, because we cannot have people who walk around not doing homework and/or not benefiting society. It is utter and complete bullstuff to even put out the notion that we should push back kids who are gifted in order to give more money to aid the disabled.
TL;DR:
If you ever think that gifted people should be held back in order to be 1) put into the same classes as the regularly performing kids "because they can compete with regular kids" and 2) put out the notion that we don't need any more gifted classes, just programs for the mentally disabled, you need to sit the forget down and think.
Too long; didn't read the "too long; didn't read" section:
If you think like what I quoted you need to fix your thinking complex and notice just because you are a regular doesn't give you the viewpoint of the kids in Honors/AP:
Classes for the kids who excel are not for the parents. It is for the kids you dumb dumb.
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