Reply to s/o - DC privates are not filled with gifted kids

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "s/o - DC privates are not filled with gifted kids"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will take a hard-working smart child over a gifted child any day--and I have a gifted child! I know a handful of adults who are off the charts smart, but time and again the harder working person really gets more done and more accomplished. Even socially I think there is a point when you can be too smart but all the parents now just want the most gifted child there is. I have only ever met two profoundly gifted children (reading at two, reading Japanese, advanced math at three for one of them and the other went to Harvard at 14 or 15, I can't remember) and no school would take the first one because they could not accommodate her needs. Socially it's been very difficult for both of them. The first is now at a place that is tailoring a curriculum just for her. Who needs it! (Although thank goodness it exists for her.) Better to be well rounded, imo. Why all the talk about giftedness. What happened to just a bunch of smart kids and some are smarter than others?

(Typing quickly so sorry if too random...)[/quote]

I think you make OP's point. The thought is that DC private schools, too, would pick a hard-working smart child over a gifted child any day.

Why all the talk about giftedness? As a parent, I didn't get to pick a hard-working smart child over my highly gifted child. Yes, my kid may have troubles socially, and yes, I worried that no school would take him. (We went public.) I understand your point that parents may strive too much to have gifted kids, but the reality is, we as parents can't change the make-up of our kids. We can push them too hard, or not offer them enough support, or all manner of parenting errors, but we can't tip them up into a higher category of giftedness (or down into a lower category) even if we want to. Posts like this one exist because parents are stuck with the kids they're stuck with, and they're trying to find the right school fit for them.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics