>It may seem completely insensitive to argue against helping disabled students, but it seems to be happening at the expense of the gifted students.
False dichotomy.
1) To begin with, scholastic success correlates most heavily with income, so we're not quite rewarding what you might think we're rewarding
2) The whole purpose in this case is to help these kids become independent or be able to function properly in society. Cutting these kinds of programs only increases the number of people who need to be assisted.
> "When you read articles like this one, you realize that the people who move society forward in leaps and bounds, the ones who create great businesses, create new products, discover new medicines are predominantly the talented and gifted ones."
This is a tautology. These people don't necessarily do well in school. Success in school != success in life, despite what my family told me.
False dichotomy.
1) To begin with, scholastic success correlates most heavily with income, so we're not quite rewarding what you might think we're rewarding
2) The whole purpose in this case is to help these kids become independent or be able to function properly in society. Cutting these kinds of programs only increases the number of people who need to be assisted.
> "When you read articles like this one, you realize that the people who move society forward in leaps and bounds, the ones who create great businesses, create new products, discover new medicines are predominantly the talented and gifted ones."
This is a tautology. These people don't necessarily do well in school. Success in school != success in life, despite what my family told me.