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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent, I hate the term gifted because it's so emotionally charged.

Many people have argued that learning to work hard is more important than being considered gifted.  Unfortunately, when a child knows most of what's being taught year after year, when she tells her teacher that she already knows the material and asks for the chance to learn something new but is refused, she doesn't get the chance to work hard.  She doesn't get the chance to struggle with something just a little beyond her ability and then feel the triumph that comes in getting it.

I never knew, when advocating for her if I should start with her test scores (where I would be considered one of those bragging, pushy moms more concerned with labels than my child) or whether I should start with anecdotes about my child and her feelings of frustration  (where I would be considered one of those pushy moms who naturally thinks their special snowflake is gifted, whether they actually are or not).  Whatever approach I took, I was usually viewed as the pushy mom, when I felt it was more a matter of my child pulling me than me pushing her.

[b]I don't care if you call my child gifted, or high-achieving, or purple-spotted ostrich, as long as you get her what she needs [/b]
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Agreed 1000%.  My kid had become too accustomed to being the "smartest" kid in her class, and everything coming so easily to her that she didn't have to work hard for anything, or develop the resilience that comes from dealing with the psychology of working through difficulty and failure.  Getting into an HGC felt very important for those reasons.  If the home school differentiated and challenged gifted kids appropriately, this would not have been an issue.  [/quote]

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