Anyone else sick of gifted talk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure, there may be some over-the-top parents here and there getting "coaching" for their kids but I think that a.) that is the exception, rather than the rule and b.) I don't think "coaching" would be terribly effective and any gains w would at best be marginal, given the nature of many of the questions. They are typically not knowledge-based questions, nor are they typically formulaic problem solving questions like normal testing that one can more effectively coach someone on.

You are correct.

[Anonymous]

When a child looks at you and tells you that this is the same test they practiced in Mr. "X" prep class--and it is an IQ test--that is unethical. It happens. Teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When a child looks at you and tells you that this is the same test they practiced in Mr. "X" prep class--and it is an IQ test--that is unethical. It happens. Teacher.

If that's truly the case, then someone should blow the whistle on the test prep provider and shut them down and invalidate the results of anyone who's attended one of their courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When a child looks at you and tells you that this is the same test they practiced in Mr. "X" prep class--and it is an IQ test--that is unethical. It happens. Teacher.

If that's truly the case, then someone should blow the whistle on the test prep provider and shut them down and invalidate the results of anyone who's attended one of their courses.

+ 1.

If you are indeed a teacher you should have blown the whistle instead of posting on this forum.

I think you are just an parent who is speculating that the kids going to these coaching classes have cheated in some way. If that was the case then there would more than the 20 - 30% students would have gotten in.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I am sick of it. My friend is sick, she can. not. stop. I let her have her fun because she has nothing else going on in her life, I mean nothing. And since she and her whole family is gifted, it is sad that they have nothing else.

[Anonymous]

The rich, entitled and high SES invented test prep long ago. They are the ones who can afford this ... over and over and over again.

[Anonymous]

When a child looks at you and tells you that this is the same test they practiced in Mr. "X" prep class--and it is an IQ test--that is unethical. It happens. Teacher.

So what? When I assign Macbeth to read some of my students tell me they have read it 3 times. I guess your solution is to put the kid and their parents in jail then?

[Anonymous]

My children are definitely not gifted. They are normal and works in progress. They both entered HGC (4th and 5th) and are in magnet middle school programs for more challenge and enrichment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

When a child looks at you and tells you that this is the same test they practiced in Mr. "X" prep class--and it is an IQ test--that is unethical. It happens. Teacher.

So what? When I assign Macbeth to read some of my students tell me they have read it 3 times. I guess your solution is to put the kid and their parents in jail then?

Irrelevant, apples and oranges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's funny OP. I agree with you. When we moved here from Ohio, we were surprised about how many people talked about how smart their kids were. It got to be so many that we thought every kid was in "gifted and talented". No one we knew in Ohio ever, ever talked about how smart or athletic or whatever their kids were. Midwestern modesty.

In NOVA pretty much every kid is in gifted and talented.

[Anonymous]

If you are indeed a teacher you should have blown the whistle instead of posting on this forum.

It was reported.

[Anonymous]

So what? When I assign Macbeth to read some of my students tell me they have read it 3 times. I guess your solution is to put the kid and their parents in jail then?

Sorry, it is not the same thing. The IQ tests are not to be copied or shared. This is made quite clear. The real guilty person is the school employee who is sharing it--but it may not even be someone within FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, it is not the same thing. The IQ tests are not to be copied or shared. This is made quite clear. The real guilty person is the school employee who is sharing it--but it may not even be someone within FCPS.

But what if the "IQ test" is not "copied " or "shared " but subjects/individuals are exposed to similar topic content and format "unwillfully" by dint of surroundings, encounters and exposure then I suspect this is simple good fortune or an accident of birth!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's funny OP. I agree with you. When we moved here from Ohio, we were surprised about how many people talked about how smart their kids were. It got to be so many that we thought every kid was in "gifted and talented". No one we knew in Ohio ever, ever talked about how smart or athletic or whatever their kids were. Midwestern modesty.

In NOVA pretty much every kid is in gifted and talented.

Exaggerate much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So what? When I assign Macbeth to read some of my students tell me they have read it 3 times. I guess your solution is to put the kid and their parents in jail then?

Sorry, it is not the same thing. The IQ tests are not to be copied or shared. This is made quite clear. The real guilty person is the school employee who is sharing it--but it may not even be someone within FCPS.

Don't be quick to assume that a school employee copied or shared the tests. They can be ordered online.