Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Instead of "gifted", call these kids... CHIPs?

Some may say this exemplifies a hater's view: basically that gifted kids do not exist, only hot-housed trophy kids of vanity-parenting tiger moms.

Additionally, this acronym sounds like excrement, generally considered a biohazard, a stinky substance to be avoided... in a word, negative.

Educators don't "hate" gifted children. They just don't think challenging them is a high priority. There is no law at the federal level and few laws at the state level making it so.

Ha! That is funny!

I've met some, when I was a child. Luckily, none of mine have encountered one of these so far.

Hhtkovptm...sorry, doesn't work.

Some may say that "haters" of gifted kids do exist. They may be teachers, but certainly not all teachers. The "haters" may also be relatives, other kids, and even jealous parents.

While individual motivations may vary greatly, the "haters" are those who find the "gifted" kids inconvenient and try to wish them away, possibly ignoring their obvious skills and abilities, undermining, marginalizing, ostracizing, isolating, discouraging, insulting, and/or accusing them of being elitist, privileged, overly invested in, etc.

There has been a hope that the "haters" might become more open-minded and accepting by others raising awareness, illuminating, and demonstrating understanding of the needs of gifted kids. Recent decades have seen some significant works (books, organizations, camps, advances in testing & identification, psychology & neurology, and a plethora of homeschooling supports), yet the field of education has seemed especially resistant to acknowledge that innately gifted kids exist, have unique educational needs, and a right to curriculum and pacing at their appropriate level, in the company of intellectual peers.

CHIPS and SALSA, eh? You know, this is starting to sound like a FIESTA: Fun Intellectually-appropriate Educational Services Through Action.

(I was seriously contemplating adding an erroneous H or E to the end of FIESTA to make Fun Intellectually-appropriate Educational Services That Actually Happen/Exist...but that would be going to far, I think. )

ITA. "Hate" is a strong word to use - and not one I'd use for any of the many people I know who are teachers, regardless of their views on gifted education. 99.99% of all the teachers I've ever met and gotten to know past a superficial "hello" are teaching because they genuinely care about children.

And fwiw, like Val, the first thing I thought of when "CHIPs" was mentioned was the tv show!

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The first words that I think when I see the word chips are 'fish', 'salt', 'malt vinegar' or 'curry sauce' LOL