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[quote=Anonymous][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]

i can appreciate this point of view. My husband is also a "gifted" person who absolutely rejects that term and thinks it is racist and doesn't correlate with outcomes. To him, the only quality that correlates with success is the ability to do the work.[/quote]

I'm the PP and completely agree.

(And I will point to my many typos above as partial proof.)

To the poster above who mentioned teachers, I wholeheartedly agree. I just don't think that pulling kids out into special programs is the answer, or even *an* answer.[/quote]

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