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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here.
re actual gifted kids--I have been teaching for 35 years in this area, where everyone in a certain type pf school (you know the ones: privates, but also higher SES publics. I haven't done much in charters but hear from friends there that it's even worse) thinks that their children are the smartest snowflakes in the world and are clearly Highly Gifted. I get at least three, but usually more like eight or ten or twelve, parents at the beginning of each year when I am teaching at those schools who tell me that their child is Highly Gifted. Those are just the ones that use that term. Others say "gifted" in a whisper as if they are ashamed of it, which they are not. 
[b]I've taught thousands of students. Less than half a dozen have been really, truly, honestly highly gifted, in the sense that their brains are really wired in a way that I cannot even explain and in the ways that they retain and understand information. Doesn't mean that the other kids aren't smart, or even gifted in some  areas, but there is a difference, and parents around here are fairly delusional about it.[/b][/quote]

We had teachers like you. So glad we changed schools.[/quote]

NP here...why?  What did she say that was wrong or offensive to you?[/quote]

Because there are 11,000 students in FCPS who are 'gifted" by their standards, and this teacher has never seen one. She is confusing gifted with prodigy. I am a teacher also and I have seen 2 prodigies. But this makes some teachers very angry. I don't know why.[/quote]

you're right, i misspoke. I meant profoundly gifted, kids with IQs over or well over 160. clearly i was not one of them. i've had tons and tons of kids who are gifted but only a small handful were so smart that there was basically nothing I could do for them in a classroom but let them explore whatever they liked.
(I also don't teach in FCPS)
I've loved every kid I have ever taught. Not just the smarties! I have not loved every parent.[/quote]

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