Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To the parents whose children weren't picked for G/T:
Get over it. That's life. Your child didn't make the cut. Stop reliving grade school through your children. Support them and teach them how to deal with adversity. When things don't go your way, whining and crying about it gets you nowhere.
My DD doesn't even konw if she made it or not. I haven't tell her much about it, and she doesn't even care and seems not interested. She's smart and cool.
I'm wainting [sic] for the appeal decision, then will go from there. My DD has big chance to make the cut IMO.
LOL. The statement above is what keeps the people on this thread going. What happens when your child gets a college rejection letter? Are you going to submit an appeal, too, as well as handicap your chances?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To the parents whose children weren't picked for G/T:
Get over it. That's life. Your child didn't make the cut. Stop reliving grade school through your children. Support them and teach them how to deal with adversity. When things don't go your way, whining and crying about it gets you nowhere.
My DD doesn't even konw if she made it or not. I haven't tell her much about it, and she doesn't even care and seems not interested. She's smart and cool.
I'm wainting [sic] for the appeal decision, then will go from there. My DD has big chance to make the cut IMO.
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Also $450 is very small price to pay for a kid's education. Some people even send them to private schools paying thousands and thousands of dollars. You got some weird baseless opinons.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:11:32: I will add that intelligence he helps the athlete, particularly fast processing speed, enabling them to make quick decisions. I have coached girls softball at the 8U level, and am able to predict who will get into AAP. I have been surprised once: one girl I expected to make it did not. This is out of 40 girls coached (25 now in AAP, or will be in AAP next fall).
baseball is a fairly cerebral sport. the other ones for girls trying to get into colleges are soccer and crew. Well known ticket punches. You don't think they out there because they just love playing softball do you?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Has anyone ever heard of anyone who fails to "thrive" in AAP?
especially after shelling out the $450, you bet they damn well better thrive.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: research and experience shows kids reveal their smartness at different ages. why dont you let the system sort out who is smarter as they are growing in the system.
Good thing that you can try agin in 3rd 4th 5th grades for that.
the problem is they don't boot the ones out who were given the benefit of the doubt but relly haven't panned out.
You never know I guess who will do well and who won't. But the 147 WISC thing proves absolutely nothing about performance. Lot's of intelligent underachievers.
Anonymous wrote:11:32: I will add that intelligence he helps the athlete, particularly fast processing speed, enabling them to make quick decisions. I have coached girls softball at the 8U level, and am able to predict who will get into AAP. I have been surprised once: one girl I expected to make it did not. This is out of 40 girls coached (25 now in AAP, or will be in AAP next fall).
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone ever heard of anyone who fails to "thrive" in AAP?