There is a fine line of variations between how a student is placed into a gifted class and how one student purely just gets good grades. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the definition of gifted is demarcated as having exceptional talent or natural ability, so how does a school district allow students to enter this program? Many states have different ways of choosing students to enter the gifted and talented program, and some ways include if the student is performing exceptionally in the class, and taking tests to mark your abilities. In KATY ISD this is how a student is labeled “gifted and talented”, by taking a test that is referred to as “The GT Test”. An average student who simply gets good grades in school may not exactly be looked down upon, but that student can definitely feel inferior to the kids in the gifted and talented program academically; even though they can be just as actually talented but in something else like band or even sports. This is where the definition of gifted is misinterpreted because it does not mean this natural ability has to be educational/academic but that’s what society defines gifted and talented to be. Getting good grades in an academic class does not mean you’re stupid (like some people might think) it just means you don’t get it as quick as other and you just do not want to give your whole life up just so you can pass a class you really won’t need to be your strongest subject later on. To be honest, the work load given in academic may not be as high as gifted classes do give out, but there are some people that need to take it easy on classes in school because they want to focus on another extracurricular idea. Therefore people in an academic class or a gifted and talented program have different goals and different viewpoints on how they see the academic layout that we live in today; otherwise known as KATY ISD.