My kid is bored...

[Anonymous]

I hate how these threads turned into "let's be a dick toward people who got gifted education."

DCPS probably isn't serving these kids that well. I have a child who's probably a little misplaced in middle school, but hoping for a little differentiation. I am not one to demand changes, I am trying not to be that Karenish demanding DCUM mom, but I do hope my child gets met where they are and middle school isn't nonstop remediation. I can understand COVID response means getting people back on board, but I hope this doesn't last forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate how these threads turned into "let's be a dick toward people who got gifted education."

DCPS probably isn't serving these kids that well. I have a child who's probably a little misplaced in middle school, but hoping for a little differentiation. I am not one to demand changes, I am trying not to be that Karenish demanding DCUM mom, but I do hope my child gets met where they are and middle school isn't nonstop remediation. I can understand COVID response means getting people back on board, but I hope this doesn't last forever.

no one here is against gifted education. we're being dicks towards losers who are compelled to lie about their iq scores on the internet.

[Anonymous]

Fun times. Be you, DCUM.

[Anonymous]

So, I actually took a real IQ test in high school. It was done over two days and was an intensive process, so they don't actually give them to the vast majority of children. I am merely one standard deviation above the norm.

Was I bored? In specific classes, particularly in ELA, history, and science. Not math, which I have never been good with, mostly because it required effort, which I did not want to give. This was a terrible mistake.

You're going to need to make sure your kid is a hard worker. It doesn't sound like he has yet developed an intrinsic sense of motivation. It's not too late (I developed mine in my mid-20s, presumably when my brain came to full executive functioning). All the intelligence in the world doesn't matter if he's not finding it in him to work. You're saying that when he finishes the work, he asks for something and gets additional boring work like word searches.

If possible, try to help your son take ownership of his learning when he's bored. Instead of asking for the teachers to solve his boredom problem (because it sounds like they can't), see if you can encourage him to start coming up with his own ideas and develop his own interests within the subjects. It's clear from your posts that he has the freedom to work ahead but chooses not to.

Does he like to read? Do art? What does he have an interest in? See if he can incorporate those interests. You mentioned science classes in particular, so let's look at that.

If he's in an astronomy unit or something, and has mastered the material, when he finishes the work in class, perhaps he could bring his own (relevant) reading material. Bring Hawking if he likes to read. If it's art he likes, he could draw some pretty cool images of planetary bodies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate how these threads turned into "let's be a dick toward people who got gifted education."

DCPS probably isn't serving these kids that well. I have a child who's probably a little misplaced in middle school, but hoping for a little differentiation. I am not one to demand changes, I am trying not to be that Karenish demanding DCUM mom, but I do hope my child gets met where they are and middle school isn't nonstop remediation. I can understand COVID response means getting people back on board, but I hope this doesn't last forever.

no one here is against gifted education. we're being dicks towards losers who are compelled to lie about their iq scores on the internet.

no, we aren't lying. my IQ test was done in school, when I was 13, it took a couple days to complete and i vividly remember sitting down with my guidance counselor to go over the results. It comes up on the forum because we are proud, and never ever mention it in real life because it makes people extremely uncomfortable and hostile (except fellow CTYers who are so excited to find kindred spirits). I think i've told two people my IQ in real life, one is my husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate how these threads turned into "let's be a dick toward people who got gifted education."

DCPS probably isn't serving these kids that well. I have a child who's probably a little misplaced in middle school, but hoping for a little differentiation. I am not one to demand changes, I am trying not to be that Karenish demanding DCUM mom, but I do hope my child gets met where they are and middle school isn't nonstop remediation. I can understand COVID response means getting people back on board, but I hope this doesn't last forever.

no one here is against gifted education. we're being dicks towards losers who are compelled to lie about their iq scores on the internet.

no, we aren't lying. my IQ test was done in school, when I was 13, it took a couple days to complete and i vividly remember sitting down with my guidance counselor to go over the results. It comes up on the forum because we are proud, and never ever mention it in real life because it makes people extremely uncomfortable and hostile (except fellow CTYers who are so excited to find kindred spirits). I think i've told two people my IQ in real life, one is my husband.

to clarify -- it comes up on the forum bc we can be anonymous and are proud to occasionally mention it, and it's not something we can really talk about IRL without making people uncomfortable. clearly it makes people uncomfortable even on this anonymous forum. but it does have some relevance to education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate how these threads turned into "let's be a dick toward people who got gifted education."

DCPS probably isn't serving these kids that well. I have a child who's probably a little misplaced in middle school, but hoping for a little differentiation. I am not one to demand changes, I am trying not to be that Karenish demanding DCUM mom, but I do hope my child gets met where they are and middle school isn't nonstop remediation. I can understand COVID response means getting people back on board, but I hope this doesn't last forever.

no one here is against gifted education. we're being dicks towards losers who are compelled to lie about their iq scores on the internet.

You don’t want to believe those posters are telling the truth, but you want us to believe that you are clairvoyant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow! There is so much hate for the mentally gifted. Jealous? I am a teacher and believe ALL students deserve a quality education. It is very sad that some of our brightest students are let down by the education system.

No one cares.

You are a jerk and probably the one who responded negatively to the high IQ post. You sound like you have some major insecurity issues or an ax to grind.

I’m not in the gifted range nor is my child. But I appreciate the posts from the people with high IQ. It’s honest and what they post is common among those in the gifted range.

Still don’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a human who has a slightly above average IQ I wonder what boredom someone with a high IQ would intellectually suffer from? Even if I converse with someone who has a lower IQ than myself we can still find things in common, things to laugh about, etc.
To me not every conversation needs to be of an academic sort.

So what is the purpose of having a high IQ? And in school if you already understand the content why wouldn’t you just go ahead? And wouldn’t the only classes that child be bored in be math and science? That’s just 2/7-8 subjects…


Is that really a big deal to OP?

Huh? Do you think students can just socialize at will?

They are bored when having classes and worksheets to learn to spell words they have known for years, they are bored when they listen to yet another lesson on how to use “their, they’re, and there,” they are bored when they listen to and then do worksheets on yet another lesson on using tape diagrams to show addition and subtraction. They are bored when they read the social studies lesson and answer the questions in 1/3 the time allotted.

They don’t have textbooks, so they can’t just read a different lesson, they usually aren’t allowed to read something on their own when they are supposed to be listening to the teacher present a lesson.

Did you not see the response I replied to?

Goodness.

[Anonymous]

No but really, how does knowing your IQ help you in life? And also hasn’t IQ been deemed useless to an extent, especially since it was created with a certain race in mind?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No but really, how does knowing your IQ help you in life? And also hasn’t IQ been deemed useless to an extent, especially since it was created with a certain race in mind?

Mostly useless. Rarely do people receive surprising results. Even at say, the low end of the spectrum, how useful is it to know whether someone is in the 40s or the 50s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate how these threads turned into "let's be a dick toward people who got gifted education."

DCPS probably isn't serving these kids that well. I have a child who's probably a little misplaced in middle school, but hoping for a little differentiation. I am not one to demand changes, I am trying not to be that Karenish demanding DCUM mom, but I do hope my child gets met where they are and middle school isn't nonstop remediation. I can understand COVID response means getting people back on board, but I hope this doesn't last forever.

no one here is against gifted education. we're being dicks towards losers who are compelled to lie about their iq scores on the internet.

no, we aren't lying. my IQ test was done in school, when I was 13, it took a couple days to complete and i vividly remember sitting down with my guidance counselor to go over the results. It comes up on the forum because we are proud, and never ever mention it in real life because it makes people extremely uncomfortable and hostile (except fellow CTYers who are so excited to find kindred spirits). I think i've told two people my IQ in real life, one is my husband.

As Hawking said, people who talk about their IQ scores are losers, and yet here you are saying you're "proud."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate how these threads turned into "let's be a dick toward people who got gifted education."

DCPS probably isn't serving these kids that well. I have a child who's probably a little misplaced in middle school, but hoping for a little differentiation. I am not one to demand changes, I am trying not to be that Karenish demanding DCUM mom, but I do hope my child gets met where they are and middle school isn't nonstop remediation. I can understand COVID response means getting people back on board, but I hope this doesn't last forever.

no one here is against gifted education. we're being dicks towards losers who are compelled to lie about their iq scores on the internet.

no, we aren't lying. my IQ test was done in school, when I was 13, it took a couple days to complete and i vividly remember sitting down with my guidance counselor to go over the results. It comes up on the forum because we are proud, and never ever mention it in real life because it makes people extremely uncomfortable and hostile (except fellow CTYers who are so excited to find kindred spirits). I think i've told two people my IQ in real life, one is my husband.

to clarify -- it comes up on the forum bc we can be anonymous and are proud to occasionally mention it, and it's not something we can really talk about IRL without making people uncomfortable. clearly it makes people uncomfortable even on this anonymous forum. but it does have some relevance to education.

Do you know why it makes people uncomfortable? It's because no one likes being lied to. Come on, man, you're claiming to be a super genius.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow! There is so much hate for the mentally gifted. Jealous? I am a teacher and believe ALL students deserve a quality education. It is very sad that some of our brightest students are let down by the education system.

No one cares.

You are a jerk and probably the one who responded negatively to the high IQ post. You sound like you have some major insecurity issues or an ax to grind.

I’m not in the gifted range nor is my child. But I appreciate the posts from the people with high IQ. It’s honest and what they post is common among those in the gifted range.

Still don’t care.

lol