"They dance, the French fries," a girl in the gifted class complained.

These tests were intended to help teachers place students in appropriate academic settings like gifted or remedial classes.

"Their children in elementary school are reading three or four grades ahead of their class but the gifted classes have been eliminated."

About 34,000 of the city's 744,300 elementary and middle school students are enrolled in gifted classes.

Dewey is about to follow his brother into the gifted class, only to have Malcolm help him stay in normal classes.

It may be better not to identify a group of kids as the gifted class.

Differentiated instruction, however, has reduced the number of requests for gifted classes.

I also feel that providing gifted and talented classes for elementary grades is unnecessary.

The participating younger students belong to the gifted eighth-grade English class.

There is no discrimination of which regular program students enter the gifted class.