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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gifted programs in US are needed because schools material is thought to the middle to lower end so the brightest kids are truly going bananas without adequate challenge. Also most of them  just have different style of learning and the regular teachers for the obvious reason can not cater towards them adequately because the rest of the class would suffer. Those kids are like cram machines so they need to be fed constantly and with reasonable challenge attached. If a regular teacher would try to do that it would stretch the teacher beyond reason. 
There are not that many truly gifted kids as in... kids who are not high achievers who are pushed by parents to cram cram cram to get good grades. Those are easy to manage, you just throw more things to memorize on them and they will be happily buys. The gifted bunch though
is the ones that has inquisitive minds that is always questioning everything and digging deeper then they were asked and they need to bounce their minds of someone and that someone is a gifted ed teacher. This kind of behavior in regular class would be consider "disruptive".
Whereas in gifted classes or centers it is the baseline behavior.  [/quote]

[quote]Calling kids gifted messes up their ego, their parents attitudes and creates some antagonism within the rest of the population. 
It is hard to imagine why anyone would pick this term as this term alone seems very divisive and emotionally discriminative but someone had something in mind. It is a word that sets people against each other right of the bet. It is a word that makes people believe that
this is what they want and can get for their child. A spot in a gifted center or class believing that giftedness is achievable.
No it is not, academic advanced kid is achievable, but you can not create giftedness in any child, not even the most academically advanced
because this is not what it is about. High achieving kids are kids who's mind follow the track, like a train, and given stuff to study,
they will stay on those tracks and just push forward. Gifted kid has no tracks,. His mind works in all directions and the learning
style is such so is the teaching style need to be. 
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It is possible to teach high achieving kids to be more inquisitive and creative.  They often benefit from being in class with gifted students.   You may not make them into a kid who naturally thinks that way, but working on their problem solving skills is often a better use of their time than having them memorize more and more material.[/quote]

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