Advancing through life is about increasing social separation, and educational systems are embroiled in that.
You're much more likely to go to day care or kindergarten with someone who will end up behind bars for robbery, compared to the likelihood of being in a Master's Degree program with someone who will end up behind bars for robbery.
Identifying gifted kids is just an early boost in this separation, which they need in order to have the best environment.
I think you fill find that if someone is opposed to gifted programs, what underlies it is that what they cannot stomach the separation.
Education is linked to economics; the social separation is related to the economic divide.
It boils down to: "Thou shalt not propel little people toward the prosperous side of the economic divide".
Because they regard it as a zero sum game. If some kid is put into a gifted program which improves their economic future, someone will surely end up losing because of that, and so it is a sin against Social Justice (regardless of whether that kid is rich or poor today).
You're much more likely to go to day care or kindergarten with someone who will end up behind bars for robbery, compared to the likelihood of being in a Master's Degree program with someone who will end up behind bars for robbery.
Identifying gifted kids is just an early boost in this separation, which they need in order to have the best environment.
I think you fill find that if someone is opposed to gifted programs, what underlies it is that what they cannot stomach the separation.
Education is linked to economics; the social separation is related to the economic divide.
It boils down to: "Thou shalt not propel little people toward the prosperous side of the economic divide".
Because they regard it as a zero sum game. If some kid is put into a gifted program which improves their economic future, someone will surely end up losing because of that, and so it is a sin against Social Justice (regardless of whether that kid is rich or poor today).