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MCPS refuses to enroll child in 6th grade/middle school who has completed 5th grade
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Anonymous
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Schools (private or public) do not make up for dysfunctional families and poor parental mentorship or guidance in the arena of creativity, social development and social interpersonal relationships. It begins at home. Some parents need to look into their interpersonal relationships in the context of their children rather than hoist heaps of sorrow on a profoundly gifted child and her father.
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Anonymous
| I always feel private and unexpressed sympathy for profoundly gifted children ... they have to bide their time while their social peer group matures and catches up to them before they can have meaningful friendships, thus missing a huge part of the relatively carefree childhood years. Moreover, profoundly gifted children tend to have profoundly strange parents who are very interested in having the whole world know about their child's intellect for reasons that do not only include the wellbeing of their child. |
Anonymous
| Oh really!!!! |
Anonymous
| Sounds like most of DCUM ... not the truly gifted moiety. |
Anonymous
| psst, 11:48: using somewhat obscure words in ways that reveal you don't really understand what they mean impresses no one. Some people will just think that you're pretentious; others will realize that you're not very bright either. |
Anonymous
Extreme intelligence doesn't have to be a source of alienation. Nor does it preclude a carefree childhood or friendships with other children. In fact, it can make childhood a blast. And there's no reason to assume that the smartest kids corner the market on screwed-up parents. I'm not sure where the profoundly gifted label is coming from in this case. Seems like all we know from the media reports is that she's finished a homeschool curriculum for fifth grade by age 9 and that she tests at the 7th grade level for math. Neither of those facts establishes that she's profoundly gifted. |
Anonymous
| I'm not sure what word(s) is obscure to you. Perhaps the 9-year-old can help you out! |
Anonymous
| Moiety is the word that was misused. |
Anonymous
| You may be entirely right in regards the 9-year-old girl and profound giftness in which case you don't need to be profoundly gifted as a 9-year-old for a middle school academic diet in MCPS. I agree with you on the latter point. Just don't understand why many feel she should be lumped with a one-size fits all 9-year-old mentality. |
Anonymous
| Now please tell us all how it was misused. |
Anonymous
| Ms Malaprop: We are still waiting for you to tell us how the word moiety was misused. |
Anonymous
| I'm not her and I don't know if it was misused because it depends on what she meant. I do know it means "half." So what she would have been saying is "half the people who post on DCUM have truly gifted children." I generally prefer to use "half" when I mean half, but maybe she likes to be more colorful. |
Anonymous
| Moiety does not mean half (as in 50%). I don't think that is what the poster meant to say. |
Anonymous
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Webster's first definition for moeity is "half." That's also my recollection from reading it long ago. Maybe she meant "a portion," which is one of the later definitions. I actually think what she meant was "an extremely small portion," which is not one of the meanings. But only she knows what she meant.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moiety |
Anonymous
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The common usasge of the word moiety today is as a part or portion of ... not strictly half as in exactly 50 percent. It is a common word in middle school science (aka Cabin John Middle School) in reference to the constituent parts of a substance or chemical. I'm quite sure any bright 9-year-old can spell and use in a sentence!
I see no misuse of the word by the previous poster. |