Thread by @wearesaphron

Gifted education is an ineffective system in providing for advanced students, as proven by data. Not just is the gifted apparatus not identifying advanced students accurately, but it disproportionately provides for privileged youth instead 🧵

#EdEquity

In Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the US’s largest school districts, public schools in wealthier areas, like Carson Middle, have a gifted (‘AAP’) population of >60% of students, while in poor parts of the county, schools like Poe Middle have <10% gifted students. 🧵

Neither of these schools are test-in or magnet schools, yet the disparities are immense. Statistically it is near impossible for >60% of the students in a single geographic area to be ‘gifted’. In Fairfax County, higher gifted rates can be directly correlated with wealthier areas

Fairfax County Public Schools is just one example of many across the nation. Gifted education is a long outdated system, a system effectively adding to the wealth gap, ultimately widening the overarching opportunity gap nationwide, hitting BIPOC communities hardest.

#GiftedEd