Does giftedness matter? – No
I&#x27;ve been in a number of companies where there was an obvious IQ-gap. Some people could watch everyone else like mice running a maze but couldn&#x27;t explain to them how to succeed in a way they would understand.<p>Someone with an average IQ, when compared to someone on the higher end of the curve, has all the tools to assert their interests but without much ability to reason abstractly about them or to recognize or interpret meta patterns.<p>Gifted education is only partially to help intelligent kids, it&#x27;s just to protect the order among the other ones. It isolates intelligent kids from the people they might otherwise learn to lead. Yes, gifted kids can be disruptive or withdraw in normal classrooms, but removing them to a &quot;special&quot; class is about helping crap teachers.<p>Enriched education is valuable, but doing it at the expense of a childs development in the hopes of engineering better kids is awful. If you want to help them, teach gifted kids leadership skills, they&#x27;ll figure out the rest.