You aren’t equipped to raise a child with a significantly higher IQ than you.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh sweetie, AAP is not a gifted program. It is a program for children who test well and whose teachers like them a lot. That's literally it.

And who have mommies who do special projects for them to submit to the selection committee.

How many studies tracked "gifted" students from Elementary School to Adult Life and just to find out most live an average life? No test can determine greatness and yet we play the game.

How many NFL coaches review College Quarterbacks to barely find a mediocre Quarterback? They have years of video footage, they can bring them to the stadium and test them personally - yet most drafted Quarterbacks don't last. And we believe a simple test will determine: gifted.

Michael Jordan himself couldn't get a try out at UCLA - I'm sure he's considered gifted.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and I’m gifted 🤷‍♀️

Most aren't. There's data on this. Most people in general aren't gifted, nor do they need to be in order to do a good job teaching.

I will say, though, I know a lot of teachers both family members and old college friends. The one friend who became a gifted teacher... was gifted.

Anonymous wrote:Oh sweetie, AAP is not a gifted program. It is a program for children who test well and whose teachers like them a lot. That's literally it.

And who have mommies who do special projects for them to submit to the selection committee.

Your child is a human that goes to a human school...not a mutant that needs to go Xavier's School of Gifted Youngsters.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and I’m gifted 🤷‍♀️

Many of us are.

In addition, OP isn’t aware that it takes far more than just a high IQ to perform well as an educator.

Rolling my eyes as far back as possible at an anyone who thinks AAP is for gifted children. Nope.

Oh sweetie, AAP is not a gifted program. It is a program for children who test well and whose teachers like them a lot. That's literally it.

I’m a teacher and I’m gifted 🤷‍♀️

Anonymous wrote:Why are some AAP teachers not allowing kids to ask critical thinking questions?

like what?

Why are some AAP teachers not allowing kids to ask critical thinking questions?

When you meet someone with gifts, you've met one person with gifts. Gifted people are very different from each other. We all have a high IQ in the family, and yet we're all very different.

To your question -

IQ IS NOT EVERYTHING.

Teachers can be very experienced and have a better sense of who is a standout than someone with a nominally higher IQ but less experience in the subject matter. There are inexperienced teachers, or really close-minded teachers. But overall, I can't imagine any of them doing a worse job than someone as ignorant as you, OP.

- parent of 19 and 14 year old. We all survived gifted labels, public magnets, etc.

As a parent of two children, one of whom is 2E that our gifted coordinator found in the halls and the other that is also gifted that she didn't find, especially when it turned out she was battling cancer, I'd just say, esp. in 2025, find something else, OP. Work with your school. Stop being an a*hole weird eugenicist. There are people of all kinds in all jobs and the sooner you stop making this into some sort of blanket manifesto, the happier your whole family will be.

You do realize that AAP is an advanced academic program and isn't targeted for only gifted children?

I do agree to some point. The teachers with 29 students can recognize giftedness in less than 90 days of schooling. Half the committee doesn’t even know my child’s name. It’s completely biased with no real evidence to justify.