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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle School is the worst of all the levels for GT support.  Other than math APS has consistenly refused to offer intensified classes for English, Science or Social Studies so it's up to each teacher to scaffold the curriculum or not.

Don't bother with referral in K.  PPs pointed out, if your child truly is potentially gifted the teacher will have seen that.  [/quote]

It was political at our elementary.  Several teachers recommended my kid early—but those donating large sums of $ and constantly @ss-kissing weee picked my the Principal.  It means nothing in the long game anyways.  Most of those kids had behavior problems and were disruptive.  The “oh he acts out because he is so bored BS”.  Ah, no.[/quote]

[b]I feel like these posts are written by total loonies. How would you know anything about who was "picked," and that the principal did picking and choosing, and what their parents were like and ..... ?????? I mean, maybe you would think this about one or two families, but out of a school of 600-700 kids, what do you really know?[/b]

That said, my older kid is really good at math, was identified by his teacher in K as being gifted in math, got pull-out/push-in throughout elementary, was on the Math Dice team, did CTY in the summers, etc. He is now bombing math in high school, so.......

And he is "good at math" the way his father and I were "good at math"--we got 750 and 790 on the SATs. But we aren't like my best friend, who was [u]gifted[/u] in the sense of God gifted her with something that most people don't have. She came up with a new math theorem while we were in college that is now in the textbooks, and she got a job at NASA when she was a sophomore. Another friend of mine graduated from Duke in 2 1/2 years, when she was 19. One kid in my son's class did math problems at recess, lunch, and extended day and was teaching himself calculus in fifth grade--he is gifted. The rest of us are better at math than the average person. I get that "gifted" is the term the schools use, but its a little silly to get worked up over whether or not the teacher gives your kid some additional worksheets. [/quote]

There is someone who says this kind of thing pretty much any time there’s an APS gifted services thread. It smacks of bitterness.[/quote]

You don’t think “[i]It was political at our elementary. Several teachers recommended my kid early—but those donating large sums of $ and constantly @ss-kissing weee picked my the Principal[/i]” sounds a little unhinged? [/quote]

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