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A chat on 4chan
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My personal theory is that gifted programs are just a way of giving additional privilege/care to children of upper-middle-class parents (obviously upper class kids aren’t in public school lol), and the reason for fringe groups of less-than-wildly-successful people talking about elementary school GATE specifically is that through some familial hardship or dysfunction they stopped being upper-middle-class at some point after grade school and got removed/filtered out of the middle and high school versions of the program.
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I was on food stamps as a kid but still in gate.