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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A PP said "for the sake of gifted kids" in complaint to those who were advocating on behalf of gifted kids - so if you truly care about gifted kids, what is your solution?   And, by that, I mean a real solution. "Do nothing, accept that they get bored" is a total non-answer and basically says you don't really care about gifted kids (or for that matter, any other kids whose needs aren't being met).[/quote]

Once again, with feeling. With a silent hope that this time you might possibly pay attention.

Preliminaries:
1. Don't assume that boredom means your kid is gifted.
2. Don't act like a complete jerk on DCUM, calling other people jealous, plagiarizing, or twisting what they said.
3. Don't excuse bad behavior with giftedness, imagined or real. Work with your child yo control his/her bad behavior.

If your kid is bona fide gifted, then
1. Work with your kid's teacher.
2. AAP/magnets are a good thing. Nobody on this thread has ever said otherwise. If your kid really is bright, he will test in. So go for it.
3. If you want to get more funding for gifted programs, you should know that acting like a whiny child on DCUM will get you nowhere and is probably counterproductive.
4. Don't announce he went to Yale.
5.  If the political/budget situation where you live is such that there won't be AAP/magnets in your district until your kid is on Social Security, then you need to move, homeschool or supplement. No amount of insulting people on DCUM is going to change this fundamental fact. So you need to put up or shut up.

I don't think I can make it any clearer. If you still don't understand any of this, I can't help you.[/quote]
Unclench. You have once again taken several persons and point of view and made them into one.[/quote]

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