This is a bad take.
The second and third tweets are fine and there is a systemic issue, but this one is actually bad. I was gifted, and I am white, but I was working class. I also had autism and ADHD, and my scores during my evaluation were used to say I was too smart for those
There are a lot of problems with gifted programs, identifying kids as gifted or not, and how they're run, for sure. But there are a lot of other systemic issues here that just get erased by "you were labeled gifted because you were white and middle class."
It's possible to talk about the racist problems with this without being ableist too.
I am NOT disputing the statistics that most students labeled as gifted are white and middle class. I was disputing her sweeping statement about why we all got into those classes.
Still not over how racist, ableist, and classist this take is.
The article in her second tweet is valid and it IS TRUE that this segregation is a thing, but going from there to this just is not, and I cannot stress this enough, it.
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