I'm having flashbacks to my days in California's primitive MGM program during the '70s. "Enrichment" must have been required, because we were all pulled out once a week and taken to a room without windows…where we did mazes. Yes, mazes. Every week. Year after year. Circle mazes, square mazes, rectangular mazes, mazes in the shape of animals. Could, perhaps, have been worse…at least the mazes were on paper. No cheese was involved. As I recall, this happened at multiple elementary schools.
As an adult, I've developed the theory that the schools did not want us to move ahead in any way whatsoever and that mazes were the one thing that was utterly unrelated to any school subject that they could come up with.
Sorry for the vaguely bitter rant. This exposure to "gifted programs" did prepare me to more effectively advocate for my DD. No mazes for her.
