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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, verbal ability is a huge component in intelligence. It's heavily weighted -- no wonder talkative kindergartners are more likely to be identified as gifted than quiet children.

Sounds like your kids didn't make the cut and you're bitter, OP. I get that, it can be a hard pill to swallow.[/quote]

I read the article last week and some of the parents featured made me want to vomit.

My kid is in the gifted program at his school, so no bitterness here.[/quote]

+1 We never advocated for our kid.  Test scores warranted an evaluation. However, we had several teachers advise not subjecting our kid to the program.

They had several valid reasons on why the GT pull-out is not necessarily the best route to go and how we'd be much better off with at-home supplementation than going the formal route at school.

Top that off there were a lot of serious behavior issues in the pull-out group that would not have been conducive to a good learning environment.  A lot of these kids have a grandiose amount of self-worth given to them from self-entitled parents like the 'butt-hurt' commenter in the prior posts.  Discipline apparently isn't needed when your bad behavior is solely because you are bored 24/7.

However, I am sure the program varies greatly from school to school and whether it's worth it really depends on the individual child.  Even if it's recommended, it's not always the best route for a particular child.  At the more competitive schools, it's all about parental bragging rights which is ludicrous.  Let's see how everyone is doing at 25 years old.

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