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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any therapist who works with elementary/MS kids will tell you this is becoming really corrosive. There are a ton of kids really feeling the pressure to remain in gifted programs as they grow older but who were heavily coached in preschool or early elementary and are just nice, normal kids who are having lots of anxiety issues related to this designation. At MS, sometimes before, it often takes the form of antisocial behavior. 
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If you have a point, make it in a way that makes sense.  Did something happen or are you just giving us a PSA?[/quote]

This is the a-h*le from the SN forum who responds to a parent inquiring whether or not to have an educational evaluation for her child.

Nice try, PP, but just b/c you know one therapist who told you this doesn't mean it's true.  It's their and apparently your [b]opinion[/b] and [b]not[/b] based on any [i]clinical evidence[/i].[/quote]

NP here, it's well known and backed by research that it's better to praise a child for effort not for being smart.[/quote]

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It is alsp very well known, documented and backed by research that gifted children need specialized and differentiated classroom instruction.[/quote]

That's different from telling a child they are gifted.[/quote]

Okey dokey then.

Gifted kids figure this out pretty early on in any case b/c they are in accelerated/advanced math, reading etc.

So is it still okay for them to take these classes?  Is there a special code word we should start using for these classes that you would deem acceptable?[/quote]

Look, I'm not the OP here and I wouldn't have ranted on this topic but as the parent of a (very young) second grader who has tested at beyond 6th grade in math and reading (above 99th percentile) I can tell you I am doing everything I can to prevent him hearing that term. It's bad enough other kids or well meaning adults calling him a genius etc as they have since he was three. Normalizing his abilities (even if they are abnormal) and praising him for effort/not making a big deal out of his achievements will be better for him in the long run than giving him a label, which as the research has shown is damaging.[/quote]

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