Originally Posted by Bostonian
Originally Posted by indigo
Unfortunately, the schools seem to be aware of this at some level... taken to the extreme, this may lead to the myth that gifted kids will do fine on their own, without school support, throughout their educational "careers".
As a statistical generalization the "myth" is true -- even in a state like Massachusetts where there is very little gifted programming, gifted children "will do fine" in the sense of going to college and getting good jobs at higher rates than non-gifted kids. With gifted programming they might do even better, but policymakers are not thinking about that.


Well, some of them will be fine.

I'd argue that those who are most likely to be "fine" while being utterly neglected are most likely to be MG and not have extreme needs socially or educationally.

The others, though... a great many of those children will NOT be fine.

MA may do better than most places this way due to a number of other factors, too. After all, the state, tiny though it is, is also home to what is likely one of highest concentrations of the best institutions of higher learning anywhere on the planet.

Imagine being an utterly neglected PG student in...

Wyoming. frown

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.