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"Gifted" programs are so fucked up.
They separate kids out for being "smart", put them on a pedestal, endlessly gas them up with wildly unrealistic expectations and then only teach them how to be good students at the expense of all social development.
All these kids go into the world thinking that being good at math or memorization is 95% of what it takes to be successful when in reality it's like 10% intellect and 90% social ability.
The worst part is that these kids usually aren't even extra smart, they just have more involved parents.
It always ends up that the kid with infinite potential lives up to none of it and has a massive ego complex because they got gaslit into believing their parents pipedreams were realistic and that it's their fault for not living up to them.
Edit: It's really funny all the former gifted kids are taking this as a personal attack.
Hey now. Some of us were smart but predated ADHD diagnosis. So we got put in there, did some fun higher maths, but still didn’t finish our homework and then barely graduated.
Yeah that's definitely the good ending. My school did so poorly they changed the grading curriculum to be 50% homework based so I was cooked on that.
I did well on the tests but they made tests 15% and quizzes 12%. I don't remember the rest of the breakdown but it was absolute bullshit.
They did it because the year above me had a 50% non graduation rate and my year had a 53% non grad rate.
The only reason the school didn't get shut down is because it managed 47% the year after me and apparently the deal was 3 consecutive years of over 50% failure = shutdown.