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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't been posting on this thread, but it's sad that there are people out there who are so hostile to the pg population. Do you hate other kids who are outliers and try to silence their parents? Why so angy? Get help.[/quote]

The hostility is toward a particular poster who claims to be the mother of a PG kid, whose kid apparently never went to a private, and whose MO is to insist that sending a gifted kid to a private school is to doom said kid to a life of intellectual mediocrity.  Lots of the hostility she has faced has been from posters who have gifted kids in privates and who point out that their kids are getting excellent educations.  At which point her response is some variant on the your gifted kid must not be nearly so gifted as mine.  Since the poster herself is belligerent and doesn't seem to be particularly well-educated or knowledgeable, and since a number of other parents of gifted kids are, themselves, former gifted kids and can speak from personal as well as parental experience, she gets a lot of pushback.  At which point her spin is, see, pg kids are victimized.  When, in fact, the debate is typically over whether there's one right answer (isolation/acceleration on the MoCo magnet model) to the question of how gifted kids should be educated or whether other models (e.g. progressive approach, small class size) work better for some highly gifted kids.

This thread has replayed some of those dynamics (and spun off two more that do almost nothing but).  Sometimes other posters (e.g. who just want to know how private school teachers deal with a gifted kid when they encounter one) get caught in the crossfire (or inadvertently start are conversation that jumps the shark once she dives in).  And she sock-puppets, IIRC from other threads, which amplifies the BS and drowns out more reasoned discussion.

At any rate, I think most of what we're seeing here isn't about attitudes toward gifted kids or profoundly gifted kids -- or even about parents who advocate for their kids.  It's about a particular style of "advocacy" especially online. [/quote]

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