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[quote=Anonymous]PP here.
re actual gifted kids--I have been teaching for 35 years in this area, where everyone in a certain type pf school (you know the ones: privates, but also higher SES publics. I haven't done much in charters but hear from friends there that it's even worse) thinks that their children are the smartest snowflakes in the world and are clearly Highly Gifted. I get at least three, but usually more like eight or ten or twelve, parents at the beginning of each year when I am teaching at those schools who tell me that their child is Highly Gifted. Those are just the ones that use that term. Others say "gifted" in a whisper as if they are ashamed of it, which they are not. 
I've taught thousands of students. Less than half a dozen have been really, truly, honestly highly gifted, in the sense that their brains are really wired in a way that I cannot even explain and in the ways that they retain and understand information. Doesn't mean that the other kids aren't smart, or even gifted in some  areas, but there is a difference, and parents around here are fairly delusional about it.[/quote]

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