when i was a kid reading encyclopedias and astrophysics books for educated amateurs (‘cause that’s what i wanted to read…) i arrived in kindergarten where we were literally learning letters from the alphabet one by one it was kafkaesque torture & my teacher called me a smartasshttps://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1446435627495530496 …
hopeless to do at this point. 100k+ hits. i guess people will be like, “i don’t get the point, she never got into a gifted program and then had to flee school? there’s no point to this.” but also for the record i was lucky to escape as i did. my concern is this will close doors
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I think that you just don't quite understand that the G&T program isn't really an open door. To a genuine prodigy it'd be a fancier cage. It's a slightly accelerated class with kids ranging from like 70th to 99.99... percentile at it's best, and due to the subjectivity
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of testing kids in at 4 years old it's more oftentimes a way to segregate. There are already separate, toeher, open doors. The G&T program doesn't even entail grade-skipping to my knowledge, it's just a separate classroom in the same building with kids who are
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