Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The thing that has been repeated here again and again is the notion that parents of G&T kids are just elitist snobs who think their little Johnny is something special when in fact he's just normal. Add to that the feigned shock and outrage that more than one poster here has talked about having a G&T child. According to DCUM they have had as many as 3,000 posters all online simultaneously - and by any normal statistical distribution, 3-5% of the kids those posters represent could be G&T - doing the math, that means there could easily be a couple dozen posters with genuine G&T posters online even simultaneously. Again, for those weak on percentages, that simply means 3 to 5 kids out of every hundred students has a high enough IQ to qualify as G&T, and the way to separate the obnoxious "my little Johnny's SOOO special" folks from the genuinely gifted is already an established process, being via IQ test, it's not something to be gamed.
STOP IT!!!!! NOBODY HAS SAID GIFTED KIDS DON'T EXIST!!!!! MANY POSTERS HAVE SAID THAT *SOME* PARENTS ARE DELUDED ABOUT THEIR KIDS' GIFTS, THOUGH.
How hard is this to understand? It's not hard. READ THIS OVER TEN TIMES IF YOU HAVE TO. There is a crucial distinction here, and it's important for you to grasp it for this conversation to have any hope of progressing.
Sorry to shout, but you're either an idiot, or you're intentionally pretending not to understand.