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[quote=Anonymous]I was a gifted child growing up.  Starting in second grade, I was pulled out and attended fifth grade for my math and reading classes.  It was a horrible experience for me as these pull outs were in addition to a "gifted program" which was a pull-out for me and some other kids in my class.  At least in the "program" I had company, when I went to the other classrooms, I was going alone.  I was miserable socially and was very happy when we moved from that school system (Colorado) to this area when I was in sixth grade.

This area does a much better job of not ostracizing gifted children and allows them to be challenged without making it a burden for them.

I believe it is important to provide a good learning environment for children, no matter whether they are gifted, or LD, or none of the above.  For all of my "giftedness" early on, I think it all evens out eventually.  I was able to qualify for scholarships to a private university and later went on to graduate school, but other than being able to test out of college math classes, there is nothing notable about where I've ended up.

One of our children is in the AAP program (her qualifying surprised me a little as I do not find her overwhelmingly gifted, though others have told me it is clear that she is).  She has much more a verbal/language arts strength and I'm trying to be careful that the advanced math doesn't cause her too much angst.

Our son is not old enough to be tested yet, but I sense that he is actually more gifted than our daughter -- from a very young age he was able to synthesize information from disparate sources and put it together.  I'm not sure his temperament will fit in an advanced environment, so we'll see what the testing says this year.

Again, either way, I am thankful that there is no social stigma associated with the programs here, so that they will at least be spared that.  And all of this is hilarious to my husband who only attended school in order to play sports -- and then went to college and grad school for the same reason.[/quote]

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