This is from Ruf's levels. I'm starting a new spinoff topic!
My gut-check back then screamed "Pull him out!" It was nice to have expert support for that.
I envy you homeschoolers in so many ways. Sometimes I wonder how much my kids could learn if they could move at their own pace every day for 3 or 4 hours, instead of just twice a week for an hour or so. But homeschooling just isn't an option for us. That said, I have high hopes for the new ability-grouped school this fall and for the local gifted school that starts at grade 6.
Or kids who are stuck in school 8 hours a day with no chance and no outlet. The school becomes THE obstacle. And then they go home and learn on their own. Or they just quit.
In reading Silverman's essays. I am struck by the incidence of GT'ness across all socioeconomic groups. The highly educated, highly motivated people who inhabit the white upper middle class made it up - and they innately have a "gut check" when they see the pain in their kids. The rest are stuck - or left adrift.
There has to be a way to ID these kids A LOT earlier and across all classes.
