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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School was always easy for me but teachers made up for it in volume, so I learned how to sit down for 3 hours a night and focus. It doesn't take a gifted program to do that, it's about learning discipline. Btw, my tested IQ is 147 but I call BS on those numbers because you can study for the tests and increase your score relatively easily. I also have a very fancy PhD because I come from a family of PhDs and it was just always on the table. I am no smarter or more "gifted" (what a term!) that my colleagues or than the farmers I regularly chat with at the Dupont Circle Farmers' Market. We are buying into these labels like we buy into every other trend. [/quote]

It's really not that simple, though.  Even if you completely invalidate IQ scores, you will still see some kids who are far ahead of the other kids and who catch on to everything much more quickly than the other kids.  If you have teachers who make a point of challenging and engaging everyone, then it doesn't necessarily matter how gifted a kid is.  If you have teachers who refuse to extend upward for a gifted child and instead have them doing obvious busywork or engaging themselves all day, then having a gifted kid in that classroom is a problem.  My kid spent his days in AAP reading for about 1.5 hours/day and self studying AoPS textbooks, which certainly isn't terrible, but shouldn't be happening in lieu of actually being engaged and educated.

One of the reasons that private schools may be a good fit for gifted kids is that smaller classes, less of a focus on the bottom kids, and more flexibility in teaching usually means that the teacher can extend upward for kids who need it.  Even in a "gifted" program like AAP, the focus is on the bottom kids in the class, there's no flexibility, and classes are packed with 25-30 kids, so it's difficult for a teacher to extend upward for highly gifted kids.  [/quote]

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