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The paltry amount Pennsylvania currently spends on gifted education gets even worse when you consider what the budget used to be not all that long ago. Back in 2014, the state spent about $110 million on gifted education. ($110 million is still meager in comparison to the amount spent on special education, but it's much higher than what the $4.1 million the state spends today.) Why only $4.1 million today? I'm guessing these programs had their budgets slashed in the aftermath of Obama's gay-race-communism agenda and all the DEI of the post-BLM era. For 2014 totals, see https://lbfc.legis.state.pa.us/Resources/Uploads/10-23-14-PASA-PSBA-Gifted-Education-Presentation.pdf#:~:text=Pennsylvania%20public%20school%20districts%20annually%20expend%3A%20Over%20%24110,districts%E2%80%99%20expenditures%20for%20basic%20education%20for%20these%20students.

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It's fine. Thanks to the intense IQ grinder effect of the tech and finance hives, we don't have many gifted students left to educate anyway. What few bright kids we have left learn to shut up and let Her speak, then if they're really smart avoid college debt and a life in a cubicle making some trust funder with an MBA richer.

If it makes you feel any better the GATE program was already retarded in the 80s and I'm sure the money is no better spent now. My time in it consisted of being free labor for some idiot's retarded art projects. I dropped out about the time she wanted to do an all singing, all dancing Three Little Pigs pageant.

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