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[quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty shocked that you took the time to go through and try to identify my posts.   So, I figure that since you took the time I will also take the time to humor you with a response.  I am hoping this will put this issue to rest and there won't be further nitpicking about my data dumping.  Again, my sole purpose for everything I included was to share information.

I still stand firm that the information I posted was to scholarly studies from major universities and research backed articles.  I'm hopeful that a parent or two found it helpful.

So, I'll go link by link in the order that you posted above:

1 - yes, this one's mine.  The info was on low-SES and at risk gifted kids.  It was a study released based on a colaborative effort by UVA, UCONN, & Yale.  The other posts that were quoted with the link clearly indicated that the link was in reference to the same topic.  There is an abstract at the beginning of the study so really you could have gotten the gist of it in a few paragraphs and continued on if you found the topic of interest.  There was no need to include any more of an explanation and no need to read the article to keep up with the thread if you didn't want to devote the time.

2 - No

3 - yes, this one's mine.  This was an advocacy paper from the National Association of Gifted Children (you can google it for credentials). We touched on several of the topics in the pages leading up to it.  I included the source of information and the bullet points of the 3 topics addressed:

•Message #1—Our nation’s ability to compete tomorrow depends on how well schools challenge advanced students today.

•Message #2—When gifted students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground year after year, our nation leaves behind a national treasure.

•Message #3—Every child deserves to maximize his or her potential.

If you cared for further explanation you could have read the couple of additional paragraphs below expanding on each of the 3 messages....or not.  It really should not have derailed anything and was hardly a data dump.

4 - yes, this is mine. This was a follow on post to the quoted post.  It clearly said that it was related to the quoted post.  The quoted post talked about one of the easiest and cheapest ways to accomodate gifted kids is to allow for greater flexibility in public shcools.

The first two links posted were two local newspaper articles detailing the struggles of a MoCo girl trying to get an appropriate education in our inflexible public school system.

The last link was to the G&T Association of MoCo and included additional links from the Wash Post, Education Week, Examiner, Gazette, etc. with similar news stories.

5 - yes - cop out post - it was not nice to try and invalidate everything I posted.  The post I responded to wasn't nice and I responded in kind.

6 - yes - cop out post - the post I responded to here wasn't nice either and I responded in kind.

7 - no

8 - yes - more discussion on cop out post

9 - yes - more discussion on cop out post

10 - yes - I did use "little world" which was probably offensive to the poster. But if you look a couple posts back that poster called me entitled with self-congratulatory positions. I wasn't feeling very friendly to her.  I may have chosen different words if I hadn't been unnecessarily offended.

[b]You will note that in the data dumps you are referring to you pointed out 3 posts out of 248 posts.[/b]  This is why I was incredibly offended by the assertion that I wasn't doing anything more than posting inane links off the internet and you couldn't stand to continue the dialogue.  It was unnessary. The poster could have just stopped posting but decided to give me a jab.  I don't regret calling the data dump reasoning a cop out because it was one.

I also find it very interesting that some people are willing to say that one poster on one forum who was trying to be helpful and friendly is the reason that they don't support issues related to gifted kids.

There was nothing dysfunctional about any of my posts and any post that came accross as harsh was a response to the same tone.  I'm being made out to be some villian and it's completely undeserved.

In general on any gifted related post on DCUM there are atleast 3 and sometimes many more absolutely nasty posts attacking someone speaking about a gifted issue.  I find it very ironic that you are trying to turn the tables here and claim to be the victim.  Just in this thread alone there was a post calling the OP obnoxious, another post laughing in support of the obnoxious post, another post giving a snippity snap in support of the obnoxious post, another post laughing at the snippity snap, and another one telling the OP that her child will grow up to be just as obnoxious.

I'm not going to post any more on this thread.  I imagine there will be a few folks that will want to put in one last jab and that's fine....what's new?!

Have a great weekend!

Please leave me be![/quote]

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