Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

That's not at all what was being said. There are many kids in DC public schools who have been tested to have very high IQ but whose needs are not being met by the DCPS system.

30 pages and you still didn't comprehend that basic reality that there are indeed children who test with high IQ, for whom traditional curriculum is not enough and whose needs are not being met (and yes, many do indeed get bored as a result), and instead, once again you insisted on repeating your same old stale, backward-logic nonsense about "oh, my little Johnny is bored, therefore he must be gifted, no need for testing, just give me the program". Nobody here but you has ever suggested that boredom is an indicator of giftedness. What's been said is that all kids can get bored. But more to the point regarding gifted children is that gifted children may more easily get bored in class because it moves at far too slow of a pace and is too repetetive for gifted learners, and that they can benefit from acceleration and additional challenge from the normal curriculum. That's an entirely different concept from what you keep repeating.

OMG no. Several posters who work in education have explicitly contradicted what's in bold. First you mocked them as trolls or bitter burnouts. Now you pretend their posts never existed. What the hell is wrong with you?

Also, "many kids in DC have been tested and found to have high IQs"? BS. Not unless they were already applying to private schools, in which case the WPPSI is required. But a light bulb has gone off: you want gifted programs to avoid paying for private school. Again, what the hell is wrong with you?

So move to the burbs. Or don't.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody was talking about kicking anyone off of the forum, just pointing out how idiotic it was for someone to be bitching and complaining that anyone from DC dare to post their views here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

That's not at all what was being said. There are many kids in DC public schools who have been tested to have very high IQ but whose needs are not being met by the DCPS system.

30 pages and you still didn't comprehend that basic reality that there are indeed children who test with high IQ, for whom traditional curriculum is not enough and whose needs are not being met (and yes, many do indeed get bored as a result), and instead, once again you insisted on repeating your same old stale, backward-logic nonsense about "oh, my little Johnny is bored, therefore he must be gifted, no need for testing, just give me the program". Nobody here but you has ever suggested that boredom is an indicator of giftedness. What's been said is that all kids can get bored. But more to the point regarding gifted children is that gifted children may more easily get bored in class because it moves at far too slow of a pace and is too repetetive for gifted learners, and that they can benefit from acceleration and additional challenge from the normal curriculum. That's an entirely different concept from what you keep repeating.

OMG no. Several posters who work in education have explicitly contradicted what's in bold. First you mocked them as trolls or bitter burnouts. Now you pretend their posts never existed. What the hell is wrong with you?

Also, "many kids in DC have been tested and found to have high IQs"? BS. Not unless they were already applying to private schools, in which case the WPPSI is required. But a light bulb has gone off: you want gifted programs to avoid paying for private school. Again, what the hell is wrong with you?

So move to the burbs. Or don't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

That's not at all what was being said. There are many kids in DC public schools who have been tested to have very high IQ but whose needs are not being met by the DCPS system.

30 pages and you still didn't comprehend that basic reality that there are indeed children who test with high IQ, for whom traditional curriculum is not enough and whose needs are not being met (and yes, many do indeed get bored as a result), and instead, once again you insisted on repeating your same old stale, backward-logic nonsense about "oh, my little Johnny is bored, therefore he must be gifted, no need for testing, just give me the program". Nobody here but you has ever suggested that boredom is an indicator of giftedness. What's been said is that all kids can get bored. But more to the point regarding gifted children is that gifted children may more easily get bored in class because it moves at far too slow of a pace and is too repetetive for gifted learners, and that they can benefit from acceleration and additional challenge from the normal curriculum. That's an entirely different concept from what you keep repeating.

OMG no. Several posters who work in education have explicitly contradicted what's in bold. First you mocked them as trolls or bitter burnouts. Now you pretend their posts never existed. What the hell is wrong with you?

Also, "many kids in DC have been tested and found to have high IQs"? BS. Not unless they were already applying to private schools, in which case the WPPSI is required. But a light bulb has gone off: you want gifted programs to avoid paying for private school. Again, what the hell is wrong with you?

Anonymous wrote:

That's not at all what was being said. There are many kids in DC public schools who have been tested to have very high IQ but whose needs are not being met by the DCPS system.

30 pages and you still didn't comprehend that basic reality that there are indeed children who test with high IQ, for whom traditional curriculum is not enough and whose needs are not being met (and yes, many do indeed get bored as a result), and instead, once again you insisted on repeating your same old stale, backward-logic nonsense about "oh, my little Johnny is bored, therefore he must be gifted, no need for testing, just give me the program". Nobody here but you has ever suggested that boredom is an indicator of giftedness. What's been said is that all kids can get bored. But more to the point regarding gifted children is that gifted children may more easily get bored in class because it moves at far too slow of a pace and is too repetetive for gifted learners, and that they can benefit from acceleration and additional challenge from the normal curriculum. That's an entirely different concept from what you keep repeating.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody was talking about kicking anyone off of the forum, just pointing out how idiotic it was for someone to be bitching and complaining that anyone from DC dare to post their views here.[/quote

22:18 told posters from VA and MD to stop posting. Reading comprehension?