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[quote=Anonymous]Our first was teacher identified several times in elementary but was not given the designation until his last day of 5th grade.  No idea- except it was at a school with a number cap for working with the GT teacher and we were the least pushy parents and didn’t self-select in K like the rest.  Ironically, our younger child was given full designation early and of the two, while very smart, not what I consider gifted—just very smart.

My older one was required to be identified after the CogaT scores and they still didn’t do it.  However, he was put in the classes with those designated so I didn’t push.  There definitely was a clique of GT parents that dropped the name of the GT teacher in every single conversation.  Yes- we know your kid is GT honeys—you tell us every chance you get.  As a result, they wrongly assumed other kids weren’t intelligent like their snowflakes.

It evens out.  My son in his friend both were accepted into top private HS and both in the top 3 of their classes.  I love it because it is solely merit based.  You only get into Honors track through tests administered by the school—not your pushy parents and the school does t want to hear from parents.  They teach complete independence fro helicopter-academically hovering parents.

Several of those very very gifted kids are struggling now.  Parents telling me grades are low.  There was a lot of coddling and parents doing their projects and micromanaging in elementary so I’m not surprised it turned out that way. [/quote]

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