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    Originally Posted by Wren
    Movers come Friday and I just finished my 3rd and last (for now) exam so I can go back to work. On derivatives.

    CFA 3?

    And congrats to DD!


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    Congratulations to your DD!

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    This is the first time I am seriously thinking about grade level skipping for DS6. Fewer years in school=good thing!

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    Originally Posted by aquinas
    CFA 3?


    I have had my CFA so long I didn't know there was a CFA 3? Or are you talking about the third CFA test?

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    Originally Posted by Wren
    Originally Posted by aquinas
    CFA 3?


    I have had my CFA so long I didn't know there was a CFA 3? Or are you talking about the third CFA test?

    Just the third exam; sorry for the ambiguity! smile


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    Interestingly, Finland pretty well beats everyone on Maths education and they don't even start school until 7 so perhaps there is something to be said for holding off on starting school.

    The main issue that I see with the brighter kids, though, isn't the age at which they start school but rather their ability to learn faster than the norm. If this is not accommodated sub-optimal outcomes are likely.

    I also think that the Terman's cohort's experience of school would have be so vastly different from a contemporary child's experience that the comparison between the two is meaningless.

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    Originally Posted by Mana
    Sending her to a school would turn her world upside down as sitting at a desk doing meaningless worksheets for hours each day would surely dampen her love of learning.

    ah... BTDT. if i'd known what Pre-K was going to do to DD5, i'd have kept her home, too.

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    My method these days to maintain a balance is to keep her busy doing non-academic things throughout the day. She still reads and does mathy activities but that's her "down time" since she seems to find them relaxing.

    and this is what we're doing right now! i'm working (ha - that reminds me that i should get back to it!) and DD5 is in her room, listening to an audio book, building something she'll probably show me a few days from now. previous projects have included a cardboard space shuttle, a realistic drawing of Hogwarts castle and a paper ex vivo lung perfusion system, so between this stuff, books and the math games she loves... i think she's doing ok.


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    Originally Posted by ColinsMum
    Come to think of it, it must be known how conscientiousness as a character trait measured in children who are not necessarily gifted correlates with long-term outcomes. It's not known by me and I don't have time to look it up right now, though!

    Here:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8355139/

    is a paper saying that conscientiousness is correlated to long life, and cheerfulness to short, in the general population.

    As a hyperconscientious and not especially cheerful person, I guess I should be pleased :-)


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    Wouldn't that be out of character, though? wink

    Wonder what it means for me, since I'm hyperconscientious and fairly easily amused.


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    Originally Posted by Dude
    I'm with HK on this one. The study doesn't show that early school entry and reading are bad for gifted kids so much as it shows that school is bad for gifted kids.

    Going backward a bit here, but I agree with this statement.

    I would, though, qualify it by adding that typical schools are bad for gifted kids. My eldest went to a school aimed at gifties for a while and he didn't experience the angst that he went through the year after it closed. He got stuck at a local charter school because the giftie school had been purchased by a venture capitalist type and put through the Silicon Valley acquisition grinder. frown

    He's homeschooling now and is much happier again.

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