By Jasmine Browley ·Updated January 25, 2022
Even in grade school, Teylor Parks knew the education system was filled with inequities.
As an eight-year-old, she was tapped to participate in her elementary school’s gifted program, also referred to as Gifted and Talented Education (GATE), and immediately noticed the difference in treatment.
“I think sometimes the way the gifted program works is a bit flawed in nature–to test the child at the age of five
