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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're assuming that the classroom teacher, AART, etc. know how to identify gifted baheviors. That is not always the case. They're not necessarily behaviors many lay people assume they are but one would hope educators would know that and know how to spot them. [/quote]

So you think an AART has no training in spotting gifted behaviors?? Come on. They’re not just plucked off the street and left to figure out how to do their job. [/quote]

Exactly.  Sure, I think my kid is smart.  But I don't presume to know more than my kid's AART when it comes to spotting gifted behavior.  And this is because: (1) I have no degrees, training, or hands on experience in elementary education (other than having once been a child myself); and (2) I lack the ability to be objective when it comes to my own kid.[/quote]

I presume to know more than the AART when it comes to spotting gifted behavior because I was labeled profoundly gifted as a child and I know it doesn't mean what many think it means. My child's GBRS 2 yeas ago was an 8. Her WISC was a 149. So yes, I think the AART was an idiot, along with the teachers. The committee also didn't put much stock in it. She was admitted. AAP turned out not to be advanced enough for her so she's now homeschooled and we're working on 8th grade cirriculum. She's 9. Had we left it up to the AART and the committee she'd be sitting in 4th grade Gen Ed. [/quote]

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