I had never thought about it until having a discussion about how difficult it is to deal with schools with 2e education. I actually work in a College of Education specifically under Special Education, but I had never really thought about the fact that gifted education itself is special education. Most of our local schools are removing gifted education from their curriculum….
2e and even gifted education itself are not statistics that most schools collect — or even know a good way to collect the stats. Getting an IEP for a 2e student is fairly impossible. In our case we started with an IEP for speech but after starting Kindergarten it was taken away after meeting the goals for speech and ‘doing too well academically’.
My own personal thought is that all students are gifted in something they just need a teacher and environment that can coax them out of their shell, find the light, and give them a chance to shine — all while preventing the constant harassment from classmates that prefer the norm in everyone.
The federal government does not provide funding directly to districts specifically for gifted education. All gifted funding is determined at the state and local level and is not mandated. So far there have not been lawsuits to push for gifted education based on the special education funding…. and the schools are struggling with the…
