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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes a student "gifted"? This study says we're getting it wrong.

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/6835643/gifted-education-classrooms-nber-study[/quote]

Unfortunately, the people who most want to keep AAP are the parents of these students.  It's a way for them to feel their bright children are something special academically even if they're not gifted.   I had a gifted child (a[b]nd all the challenges that entailed[/b]), but had the GT program he was in disappeared, I wouldn't have fought for it.  It was nice to have, but he would still have been off the charts smart and special without it and not had his intelligence diminished without it.    [/quote]

any parent who doesn't feel that AAP should be relabeled special ed, doesn't really have that bright of a kid. I love my AAP off the charts kid, but really it's difficult to be an outlier no matter what tail you are on.[/quote]

We are wrong to assume that kids not in AAP are dumb. My son is not in AAP and I know why he is not (if I push him hard he will make it). He likes to be him playing enjoying life as opposed to my daughter who is a geek, each one is different and one day both my kids are going to make us proud in their own way and that is all that matters to us. This AAP madness in here in fairfax rest of the country is pretty sane we moved from a different state BTW.[/quote]
goodbye![/quote]

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