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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s so bad that even parents are like- gifted kids will figure it out. Why? Why don’t they deserve the same resources and consideration that low performing kids do? Just because they don’t cause problems doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a high quality education.  We pay for special ed teachers to run tiny sheltered classes for the disabled. Why can’t we pay gifted teachers to run tiny sheltered classes (magnets!) for the highly able students?

I know- it’s the anti-intellectualism of America. Those kids will be just fine. Don’t be all up on your high horse, there, bucko. Throw in some anti-Asian and anti-immigrant sentiment and you’ve got the current response to magnets.

It’s infuriating. [/quote]

But gifted kids won’t figure it out! I was in gifted throughout school. Plenty of my classmates were geniuses but wouldn’t do homework and needed help with executive functioning (just like every kid…). We had such incredible teachers that really brought out the potential in gifted kids. I think I read that geniuses have higher rates of burnout and suicide.

I wasn’t gifted, at least by IQ, but I made straight As throughout high school and got a great SAT score (1475). I think I worked twice as hard as anyone else though. I am still so grateful I was allowed into the gifted magnet. The courses I took and the high caliber of teacher really helped me. I really think all kids should be allowed to take higher level courses and if they can’t make it (Cs or lower), they then get bumped down. College was a breeze after how hard high school was. [/quote]

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