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Kindergarten identification is ridiculous.  A lot of that is the type of preschool and early worksheets.

True separation/intellect starts happening by 3rd/4th grade.  A lot of those 'brilliant' kindergartners are struggling down the road and the parents are doing all of their projects.[/quote]

My son was writing down lists of prime numbers in K. He got identified as gifted in APS. I guess that was ridiculous.[/quote]

PP didn’t say that early GT identification and actual giftedness are mutually exclusive.  But in some cases early identification is premature.

Some kids are precocious. They are doing things far ahead of their peers at an early age.  Many parents mistake this for giftedness, and are disappointed when other kids catch up to them in early elementary and their kid is no longer the one leading the pack.  It happens in sports, too.  Some of those kids, like yours, are gifted, but some are not.  [/quote]

I think the difficulties in identification at the elementary level is an argument in favor of a model like APS's as opposed to a segregated, AAP-style model. Not only does it make it easier for them to err on the side of inclusion rather than exclusion (because it's simply pulling out one more child with the rest of the group rather than having that child occupy a specific classroom seat to the exclusion of someone else), but if a child is included who perhaps shouldn't have been, it's not like they're put in a class where the whole curriculum is moving too fast for them and they start to struggle needlessly in school, they simply rely on their pull-out peers a bit more as they do the group work and most likely still getting something out of the experience.[/quote]

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