Shanti Raminani is 12, plays the violin and wants to be a pediatric surgeon. Mia Turel is 13, collects fairy figurines and dotes on her pets. Annsana Biju is 14 and dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon. All three are CalStateLA students.
Mia Turel was in first grade when she asked her father to teach her how to chart the probability of losing her baby teeth over time. By second grade, she was reading high school-level books on Martin Luther King Jr. Then she became fascinated by TED Talks on global warming and marine biology.
The statistics are a reflection of the way gifted young students are often overlooked and underserved by universities and school districts, and the lawmakers who hold the purse-strings to both. California doesn’t set aside money for gifted programs in K-12 at all. It stopped doing that in 2013, when the state changed the way it doled out educational dollars. Now the money is rolled into a block grant, which school districts can use on gifted education if they choose. Overall, only about 45% of California’s 1,800 schools had gifted programs in 2008-09, the last year the state collected suchOf the programs that do exist in California and elsewhere, there is no statewide quality control.
From left; Shanti Raminani, Mia Turel and Annsana Biju pose for photos before their dance at Almansor Court in Alhambra. All three are students at Cal State L.A. and participate in the Early Entrance Program. Annsana dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon because she wants to help people. She also likes that brains are “one big squishy thing.” Born in India, Annsana learned English in a year and said her teachers told her that she was too impatient. She didn’t slow down. By the fifth grade, she had devoured a book on neurology.
“What we’re trying to do is help students tap into their full potential,” Pham said. “They don’t view high school as a realistic possibility for them. This faster acceleration is what they need or want.” This semester, the young Cal State L.A. students have studied the emoluments clause in the U.S. Constitution, written a paper on political polarization and did class presentations tying “Dante’s Inferno” to the Beach Boys. They’ve figured out how to measure molecules with stearic acid, learned logarithmic functions and vector calculus.
“I feel that sometimes,” Mia replied. “But in the end, your real friends you’ll keep up your contacts with.”
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