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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sick of hearing about snowflakes are bored in school! [/quote] Amen. I mean seriously - what kid actually comes home and tells their parent they are bored in elementary school. I just can't imagine saying something like that when I was in early elem school. [/quote] My kid. My 7 year old complains loudly and consistently that his 2nd grade teacher is teaching "baby math" and that it's boring. At home, he was exploring square roots and squares last week. I haven't had a math class in 25 years, and I was doing okay, until he asked me if negative numbers have a square root. He's not "bright." He's gifted. This is typical for gifted kids. [/quote] No, he's not gifted, he's bright, and it's great that he's picked up these concepts somewhere, but it's not earth-shattering. A term like "gifted" is false modesty. Check Twitter and you'll see all these posts from kids and adults bragging about this and that, yet covering it with "#blessed." Seems the culture these days is all about branding, and it's relected by all the labels parents want pinned to their kids from an early age.[/quote] I disagree. When a kid tests at the 99.9% percentile at his grade level on the COGAT and then tests at the 99.9% when he is tested a year about his grade level, and his IQ is over 145+ and he consistently demonstrates the other "symptoms" of giftedness, then he's gifted. At the same time, I don't talk to people about this in any forum with my name on it. I was born in the Midwest. You don't talk about stuff like that. You just deal with it. It's not about branding. It's about having a handle to put on a problem, so that you can find solutions to deal with it. [/quote]
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