Congratulations to your son. We've been to a SCAT awards ceremony at Boston University. It's pretty short and is done well. A speaker talked about the importance of education and discussed a recent scientific advance of social importance. Later each student was called up and given his/her certificate. Almost all the honorees were white, East Asian, or Indian, with comparable numbers in the threee groups.
A speaker said something like "You all are the best and the brightest and represent the hope for future progress." There have been discussions here about whether to tell gifted children they are smart. If you think it's a bad idea to call attention to intelligence, that would be a reason not to attend. I'm not worried about this, and we will likely attend again this year. My son did well on the SCAT again this year.
Last edited by Bostonian; 04/28/11 07:27 AM.
