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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also wanted to add that I think it's a good thing that AAP students have varied interests these days. This also helps with the mingling between general ed and AAP. You seem to be stuck into thinking your peers growing up weren't into academic pursuits, but in reality you might just not have known what they were really into because you never really hung out with them.[/quote]

Trust me, I would have hung out with them if they had let me.  I longed to be accepted, as had many of my gifted peers at the magnet school.  It was only when we were no longer outliers that we were able to have normal social lives.

There is a huge difference between a neurotypical child who is bright and capable and a "gifted" child (I hate that term, actually).  Children who have extremely high IQs are operating in a different universe than their peers.  It's FRUSTRATING to be gifted.  Your mind is so far ahead of your emotional capacity and your physical abilities that every day is spent running into brick walls.  And you're different ... even weird.  Look up Dabrowki's Over-excitabilities.  True giftedness is no picnic.  A bright but normal child who can also be a soccer star and fit in well with his or her peers is going to have an easier and often more successful life than a truly "gifted" child -- especially if the gifted child doesn't get the special help he or she needs to learn to adapt to a world that doesn't really fit them.[/quote]

My point was that that the gifted child would get more practice adapting to a world that doesn't really fit them if they got special help to do so while still being with peers of many different interests and abilities.[/quote]

That's what youth sports leagues, dance classes, church youth groups, and other social activities are for.  [/quote]

They don't have the built in help for a gifted child that might be needed, the kids change easily in these activities, and the gifted child being described might not even be into these activities to even join in the first place.[/quote]

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