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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education.  I think they still don't.  Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.[/quote]

My kids are in the "gifted" program and in my opinion are not gifted just very smart. But that is what the current "gifted" programs are designed for. When they are pulling 15-20% of kids, they know that they are not all gifted. And frankly, if gen ed wasn't so watered down, parents wouldn't be so motivated to get their kids into "gifted" education. I certainly don't care if you call it gifted. You could just call it advanced or accelerated or whatever. [/quote]

I think the gifted program I was in back in the 80s was the same though. It was about 10-15% of the grade, basically all the kids who read above grade level, acquired math skills faster than others, and just liked school. No one in our gifted program was done kind of genius. I think most of us went on to do well in school and we all went on to college and most grad school, but to my knowledge none of us became some kind of mental superstar.

I’m now in my 40s and while I used to feel like I was on the smarter side, lately I’ve felt my intelligence is pretty average. I have friends who I know are much sharper than I am. I don’t feel “gifted.” I feel pretty average.[/quote]

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