Students who are gifted are not likely to excel without special education programs.

Gifted students are student with special needs as well. A lot of these gifted students are usually underachieved because without special education programs, teachers might have a hard time identifying these students and their specialty or their certain giftedness may not be developed and hence it is taken into account. Part of this is because educators as well may not differentiate the difference between academic motivation and the special needs the gifted child needs.