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My ds has not technically had a whole grade acceleration. He just has done more than a years worth of HS before 9th grade. He may choose early graduation or may take a full year of PSEOP at a local college. He has been so much happier with the older
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Originally Posted By: BostonianOriginally Posted By: deacongirl You cannot be serious. We have different outlooks, but I was serious, and JonLaw understands where I am coming from. I never considered becoming a high school science teacher. I was ne
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Originally Posted By: deacongirl You cannot be serious. We have different outlooks, but I was serious, and JonLaw understands where I am coming from. I never considered becoming a high school science teacher.
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: 1111Had one of these parents in regards to my PG son. She would be right in my face with questions like "what is he doing, what do you do to get him to do all this". This reminds me of an afternoon back when DD was 3 and we w
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Originally Posted By: deacongirlYou cannot be serious. I would like to put you in a room with my SIL who has her PhD in genetics and is teaching high school science (happily) now. She doesn't consider the years obtaining her PhD wasted because she
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: cdfox Today I was reading Peter Gray's book, Free to Learn, and thinking about my 2e pg son, the situation with these tiger Moms, etc. I don't know if anyone here has read the book, but it sums up the situation. Just put a
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Originally Posted By: BostonianOriginally Posted By: HowlerKarma e) NON-competitive and collaborative environment-- this is critical because of DD's kneejerk reaction to that kind of environment-- she actively recoils and responds VERY negatively to
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: cdfox Still, I feel bad for the daughter and other children like her. Their overbearing parents and pressure put on them will doom them if they're not careful. Yep, my son made it very clear to me a few years ago that he was
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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Those are some fabulous scores. I agree with mnmom, that you seem really tuned in to her and should be proud of the connection you're maintaining.
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General Discussion
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Originally Posted By: HowlerKarma e) NON-competitive and collaborative environment-- this is critical because of DD's kneejerk reaction to that kind of environment-- she actively recoils and responds VERY negatively to people she perceives to be self
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: deacongirlOriginally Posted By: skateycatThanks for starting this thread! I don't have any answers myself, I am still pretty gobsmacked by a jealousy incident that came up in my own life a few weeks ago. DS7 said something r
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Our DD has already assured us that she'll be attending a local university, so she can continue living at home, so we're not facing the imminent loss of our child when she graduates high school early. Of course, she's only 8, and going into the 4th g
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Learning Environments
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Originally Posted By: aquinasWhat about a trial in full-time gifted AND a one year skip? That sounds like a feasible option given their structure in terms of suitability. That's actually what I was angling for with my DD's school, though I was will
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: MichaelaBut Mesoamericans are FUN, and Egypt is so... Cannon. Everyone knows about them. I agree! Such mystery! However, hieroglyphics grabbed me. cd: You could try the favorite response of managers when asked about w
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Learning Environments
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Ugh. I'm sorry you had such a miserable meeting. How frustrating and ridiculous. I think it may be true that a full-time GT program in itself is not always great for HG+ kids. My kiddo thrives in one, but he also has skipped a grade. (And the teacher
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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Originally Posted By: mnmom23Those are such high scores that your DD wouldn't be any more likely to find an intellectual peer in her neighborhood if you lived in a city versus your small island. In either case, I think you'd have to reach out to gif
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Parenting and Advocacy
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La Texican - You're welcome. I keep creating livebinders when I see great websites or stuff and I don't want to keep that stored in my head. So I love them. There's just too much to keep track of and resources otherwise. I haven't read it yet but
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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Those are such high scores that your DD wouldn't be any more likely to find an intellectual peer in her neighborhood if you lived in a city versus your small island. In either case, I think you'd have to reach out to gifted-centric activities to fin
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I have the same feelings. It makes me SO sad that my DD will graduate from hs at 16. I feel like I'm loosing two years with my beloved girl. And there is no way she'd want to do a gap year - she wants to go to college at the same time all her frie
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Learning Environments
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morgans-mommy, you are absolutely right about this school district not caring about "fit". It was very apparent to me that my son's best interest was not what was being discussed yesterday, and my input was not welcome at all. It was all about what t
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Any chance your DS is shy in class and doesn't speak up because he feels different than the other kids and is hiding his abilities? My DD was like that and teachers were concerned about it. That is, until she skipped a grade and started speaking up
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Recommended Resources
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Alan Gordon's Fool's Guild mysteries are good. My DD and I both like those.
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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In our district, they use the KBIT as a pre-test, to determine if it makes sense for them to do a full WISC. My youngest scored about 93% on the KBIT and had they done only the KBIT, he most likely would not have qualified for the school-administere
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Learning Environments
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I also feel I should mention that DD was placed in the full time gifted spot in error. She, like your son, only met 3 of the criteria. She was performing spectacularly in the full time program. High A's across the board with no effort at all and her
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Ooo-- that's another zinger, isn't it? Social relevance. Like Moral Turpitude*-- yay! But even better. I wonder, is economically relevant roughly equal to economic significance? *Please note-- I have cream this morning, and therefore, also c
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