GATES in the 80s and 90s

I was not. But I remember the kids who were. And not a one of them were white.

my grandpa tried to get me tested for that sort of stuff but all I heard was it made you have more homework so I tanked on the test.

First time I ever got a serious chewing-out as a result

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GATES

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Know it's a name for it, but I don't know what to call it.

I was never smart enough for special programs. Only the remedial programs.

I was in gifted from 3rd grade all the way through high school. No one ever said GATES.

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was a GATE kid and the only thing only that list that matches me is the 130+ IQ and I'm barely over that

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I’m not convinced those IQ tests are even accurate. Supposedly I was like 142 or something yet I flunked out of chemical engineering and ended up driving trucks.

So clearly someone is bullshitting

We called it TAG.

What happened to me being a nerd was after 3rd Grade at Jefferson Terrace I was sent to the hood for 4th-8th grades.
I went to Buchanan Elementary for 4th and 5th
Then McKinley Middle Magnet for 6th-8th.

Our bus rides were 1.5hrs long to and from Village St George but we had some of the best teachers in the state.

I know now it was part of the desegration ruling and the EBR Magnet program to feed us to McKinley High(Gifted), Scotlandville and Baton Rouge High.

TLDR In Baton Rouge in the 80s, white nerdy kids all over EBR were sent to schools in the Baton Rouge hood and got a great education while black kids from the local neighborhoods were in the classrooms nextdoor.

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Also none of that is accurate.

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Negative. Never seen that meme before but I am a bit stunned.

In my day it was called KEEP (Keeping Education Exciting and Productive) and I am 100% convinced it was some sort of big government information gathering operation. (FTR, I am NOT a conspiracist but I lived this.) They used to bus us off to a separate facility once a week and we did all kinds of weird shite. Some individual and some in groups. There was a ton of testing.

I have blue eyes, I had a drowning near death experience as a child (I drowned and they brought me back) and my IQ is well over 130. No clue about my occipital bun and not looking that up. I remember quite a bit of going to this thing, not aware of any birth issues and I smoked a bit at LSU but that was it. After writing that out, I am wondering if those characteristics are simply things that fit a large percentage of the population.

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90s Gates

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