Important Quote: "...dominated by white and Asian children. Though gifted programs touch only 3.3 million school children, about 7 percent of the U.S. student population, it’s disturbing that Black and Hispanic children are rarely chosen for them. "

• Students from African American families are underrepresented by 43 percent.
• Students from Latinx families are underrepresented by 30 percent.
• Students from Native American families are underrepresented by 13 percent.
• Students with disabilities and those who are still learning English are underrepresented by 75 percent.

Quote "This is a Band-Aid approach that does nothing to set diverse students up for success or create viable long-term, equity-driven gifted education. It is not enough to get underrepresented students into the pipeline; gifted programs must strive to retain them, so they don’t struggle or drop out."

"It’s well known that students of color are underrepresented in gifted programs compared to white and Asian students."

"Overall, the odds of black and Hispanic children being referred to gifted programs are 66 percent and 47 percent lower than white students, respectively."

¨school systems are making the decision to contract or eliminate their gifted education and advanced academic offerings...I disagree with these approaches and favor a more expansive solution...This is personal to me, as someone who was a child who struggled with excessive behavior challenges in kindergarten and first grade until I was identified as gifted and learned what too many students like me never have the privilege of learning: My behavior challenges came from a lack of being challenged." - Although this an opinion we do need perspectives and he did expierance this 1st hand 

Some of the challenges faced by gifted and talented students are teachers' stigma, negative peer attitudes, difficulty understanding others, problems related to perfectionism, as well as impatience and intolerance.

 The underrepresentation of Black students, and Students of Color more generally, in gifted education has been widely acknowledged, resulting in the publication of an equitybased bill of rights for gifted Students of Color This underrepresentation extends to rural schools as well (Davis et al., 2020a, 2020b) due to educational, social, and cultural factors such as geographic remoteness, cultural mismatch between educators and students, low teacher expectations, and low educational attainment of parents