Originally Posted by master of none
I just can't get upset about whether or not some other kid is actually gifted or not, or whether a gifted program actually takes gifted kids. Whether a child has been "hot housed" to qualify.
See, and I've thought about why it does bother me and I think that it is primarily b/c a program that is full of hothoused kids probably isn't going to meet the needs of gifted kids. My dds don't perform well in pressure cookers where the parents and/or kids are super competitive. They need different learning approaches, not just bragging rights and lots of extra work which is what seems to happen in some of the gifted programs that aren't really geared toward gifted kids.

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