Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion A couple of quotes

Just in case if any one of you out there are also looking for quotes that might help with advocating your child's education:

Here are two of our favorite:

1. Miraca Gross: "Exceptional students are surely those for whom their schools should make an exception."

2. John Feldhusen: "...that forcing a highly gifted student to be like an average child is forcing him or her to be abnormal -- or, indeed, subnormal!" (We thought this is a great response to "Just let your child be a normal kid.")

Feel free to add more quotes....
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Here's some

Ellen Winner: Keeping a child who can do sixth-grade work in a second-grade classroom is not saving that student's childhood but is instead robbing that child of the desire to learn.

Marva Collins: We can never teach children all they need to know, so we really must teach them how to think and how to love learning.

Susan Lemagie, M.D. from How Jane Won: "I believe we need to keep challenging girls so they continually connect the relationship between efforts and results, that we keep encouraging them to take risks, make commitments, and achieve."

Grinity: The trick is to partition the whole past relationship with any school folk who are giving you a hard time and focus-focus-focus on the needs of the child and possible solutions. It's an odd trick, but I know you'll get the hang of it. You may not get the accommodations you are looking for, but at least your entire mind won't go crazy. Just that little walled off part that you can vent about here for the next 20 years. Hopefully somethings will have changed by then.