Wash Post: Five habits of great students: Lessons from top-ranked STEM school

[iemitsu]

13. Very good points you make about segregating gifted students

and about the nature of being "gifted" in the first place.
"Profoundly Gifted" is an odd label and does not sound as if it is a particularly good thing. It makes it seem as if these kids struggle with some aspects of life while excelling at others. Or, at least, that they're not quite normal. If this is so, then its all the more reason to socialize them along with the rest of the population, not separate them and surround them with exclusively profound students.
Plus being profound doesn't put meat on the table (I'm sounding like my mother).
Its difficult for me to understand how the public has been bamboozled by the privatization movement. I recognize the influence the Reagan years, and the money invested in misinforming the public, and some other tricks played on the public as causative agents of popular perceptions but one would think that even the most ill-informed would recognize when they were being robbed.