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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea what anybody means by "profoundly gifted."  In my educational past, it meant "children of parents who had no social skills and imparted the same to their kids."  The basic point being, if you read and study a lot, and hardly ever socialize or enjoy the world, you can get pretty good at doing bookish stuff.  Or, if you mean Einstein as an example of a profoundly gifted person, he wasn't recognized as gifted in school because, Einstein.[/quote]

I hope you are not a teacher. There is an entire literature out there on very high IQ kids and their unique needs.  And no, its not about studying alot (many PG kids do not have great study skills, BTW) but about how their brains are wired.   They often enjoy the world intensely.   They often DO have social problems, again in large part because their way of looking at the world is different from most of their age peers - its why so many such kids are happy with the SOCIAL side of programs like CTY.

As for Einstein, he was of course profoundly gifted, and he was not recognized as gifted at school precisely because German schools of his time (like most American schools today) did not understand the profoundly gifted.

here are some resources for you

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/highly_profoundly.htm

http://www.sengifted.org/
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Uh, yeah ok, it looks like scientology to me.  I wish your child the best, though.

Re:  TJ -- met a lot of TJ's graduates in my life, they are hard workers and tend to be earnest, good-natured people.  The best of them tried to party the TJ out of them, later, and were very successful at it.[/quote]

Not scientology, but science. Keep denying whats inconvenient to you.

And TJ has a range of kids, including some regular gifted kids who are very hard working, but also quite enough profoundly gifted kids.  And those kids are not socially isolated which is whats wonderful about TJ.

And of course most TJ kids do not try to "party the TJ out of them"  They build on whats wonderful about TJ.

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