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Making judgments about a young person's potential at any one moment overlooks the fact that time is needed for complexes of genes to get in tune. And so we write people off. For others, we write the check too soon.

This would argue against IDing gifted kids, wouldn't it? And then we get into the "We should treat all kids the same/all kids are gifted" stuff, don't we? That, by the way, is the most common response I've heard from my friends to the fact that DD is entering a FT gifted program...

I don't think it would necessarily! I think it would advocate for ongoing assessment and teaching to individual children instead of pigeon holing kids into a few groups. Many gifted kids really aren't served by the typical grade level enrichment and acceleration offered. Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I'd love to see education more customized for ALL kids. And maybe this is the reason we're homeschooling at the moment. smile The no child left behind paradigm is clearly not working.

Anyway - great article. Thank you. I was a bit of a late bloomer myself.