Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Age or Ability Specific Forums High School/College Gifted Forum???

Thanks for the support of trying to get a HS/College following on this forum.

Kriston, maybe the first thing we could do is try to get our wonderful moderator to put a separate high school/college thread?

Part of my problem is having to hunt and peck to see if something related has been posted somewhere in the past.

Just an idea!

Well, Mark did just revise all the headings recently with lots of input from all of us. The way that was chosen to deal with age-specific issues was to have the very heading under which you posted this thread: Age or Ability Specific Forums. So I think you aren't likely to get a separate heading for older kids, regardless of who campaigns or how much. Note that the younger kids--who are, indeed, discussed a lot more often--don't have their own forum heading either.

Honestly, I suspect you have trouble finding stuff about high school and college kids here because there isn't much to find. More people would generate more threads which would generate more to find!

Jayne,
I haven't found any for older children, either. I am in college currently (with two kids in high school) and know a little bit about college issues (such as honors programs and major selection) from experience but not much for high school...

Is there a Middle School forum? I'd love to discuss the issues around this age group. It all becomes so complicated when their emotions start rolling.

Hi Jayne,

I have a HS sophomore and 2 middle schoolers. I have to admit that I went from full addiction to occasional perusal of this board (no, I haven't cheated and found another, but it is because my needs are now geared toward older kids issues). I second Lorel's suggestion about applying to YS because there are boards and seminars that are specifically geared toward high school/college. Also, I second the others' idea of staying here so we can develop a high school forum.

Hi Ellipses,

Many of us have middle schoolers (I have 2--one in 8th grade and one in 6th) so let's just start it. Grinity, Dottie, Ania, & many others also have middle school kids.

I have a rising freshman and a rising 7th grader.
We just went through the course selection for HS. What a nightmare (on me, not on him).
I believe that there is not enough people on this forum that have middle/hs age kids to make it really fly. We can exchange knowledge/ideas, but it will be a little one directional, I think.
But we can try!

I wanted to second Grinity's reccomendation of What High Schools don't Tell You (and Other Parents don't Want You to Know ). It is written from a perspective of a parent who aspires for her kids to attend top/ivy/portfolio type colleges so you have to read it with a grain of salt, but some of the ideas the author presents in the book are extremely valuable.
For example, I never knew that when applying for research positions towards the end of HS (and this is how you make those winning Intel/Siemens projects) candidates are being asked if they ever participated in a talent search? Who knew? Especially since the importance of participation is so downplayed by many, many schools?
This is a book my DH is reading right now. It contains a lot of things I was already aware of - nice way for him to catch up

^^see what I mean? Almost twelve hours from the time I posted last and no responses

BTW - Jayne, you are almost done with HS! You should be focusing on college. Go and browse that collegeconfidential forum

We are in a rural area (as of last year) that really lacks in many items that are on college resumes. I am aware of these things due to the city from which I located.

I want to start a group for parents of college-bound students from this entire area. How can we keep track of volunteer hours? In high schools, there is usually someone who is designated for this. Does someone need to be accredited somewhere?

So, what did you pick? My state has SO many requirements that there aren't a lot of "choices". I have an 8th grader too and can't decide whether to make a case to ditch Honors General Science for Honors Biology (seems like the rest of the country has freshmen take Bio, which we do sophomore yr).