I guess one problem is that the vast majority of schools don't think in terms of levels of giftedness. Giftedness is just defined a static thing, as though there were no differences between the learning abilities of someone with an IQ of 120 and someone with an IQ of 140 (or 160...).
Preaching to the choir here: the kids at or above the 90th percentile need a different learning environment. But the ones at the 98th need an environment that's different again. And so on.
Which leads back to Grinity's/my point about setting the 90th percentile locally. Why force kids from neighborhoods with completely different demographics to compete with one another?
<shrugs>
Val
Last edited by Val; 07/27/10 12:35 PM.
