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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was happier finding out that they're just smart and a bit above average in certain subjects rather than gifted as I was labeled growing up.

No one ever asked me if I wanted to leave my class three times per week starting in 4th grade to go take MS classes.  No one asked me if I wanted to be exempt from PE class so that I could work one-on-one with an advanced math expert to further my skills.  And the thing is, once you start those advanced classes so early on, even when you're old enough to protest in MS & HS, there's no going back.  At least not in the school system in which I was enrolled.  Once you were on the advanced track, that was it.

[b]So you're bused to MS when you're in ES, bused to HS when in MS, and then you get to leave HS early each day to go to community college classes... [/b]and your whole life is leaving your peers and feeling like the outcast weirdo smart kid among the older kids and fielding questions from everyone about why you go to other schools.  When I was in HS and taking a college Physics course, my professor would always announce to the class, "no curve on this test because Jane got a 105%" and oh boy was that fun.  Nothing like the ire of 44 adult classmates not getting a grade bump because I'd scored perfect + extra credit.

By the time I was a senior in HS, I was done.  All I wanted was a break and to just be normal for a bit.  I missed Senior Field Day because I had a test in a college class and same with our Senior class trip.  I went to an Ivy for college and a different Ivy for grad school and yes, I'm successful, but so are my co-workers who are "just smart" and had the normal experiences and went to regular ol' colleges.    [/quote]

acceleration is bullshit.[/quote]

I totally agree!  I was accelerated in math and honestly it made me not want to do math anymore.  I would have done much better in a regular level class where I was encouraged to take my time and enjoy and understand it, rather than speeding through it as some kind of badge of "giftedness."  This doesn't apply to everyone of course -- I knew kids who were intrinsically motivated to get ahead in math, and I think acceleration was right for them.  [/quote]

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