Ouch! Ania - These kids sure have a lot to keep track of!
STBmom -
Oh, so that's why you are 5 years ahead of me! You've been inside the k-12 system! Thanks for that insighful run down of why these tests don't test gifted kids. I'm still curious about: what parents see as "education" is very, very different from what public schools see as "education".
I'd sure like to hear more about that.
I think my son had the best answer to who should be in which class. Ask the kids, while they are hooked up to a lie detector. Then the kids can be in the class that they think they are ready for, gifted, accelerated, whatever. As a first order approximation, I think that this is the best one could hope for. The key I'd like to see, is an educational system with the flexability to let kids try working at multiple levels and see how they respond.
((Big Smiles))
Trinty
