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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
okay i don't know how to interpret gifted kid discourse anymore. in my schools "gifted" meant 140+ IQ or so, the kids there were very obviously reading way above grade level, learning calculus in freshman year of high school, that kind of stuff. is it not like that everywhere?
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owen cyclops
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idk where you guys went to school or what your experience was but the effect of this will be very extreme long term if they actually do it. in a lot of school gifted is just code for “actually teachable” and the normal classes are just non-functional 50-80% of the time. twitter.com/elizashapiro/s…
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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i saw a tweet the other day that was like "you probably weren't gifted you were just benefiting from white privilege" but my gifted cohorts were majority asian 🤔 what the hell kind of gifted programs were the rest of you in twitter???
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
thanks for the replies everyone, apparently this varies a lot regionally and presumably by socioeconomic whatever, so for added context, the two gifted programs i was in were in washington state 1998-2004 or so, relatively wealthy suburban areas i think
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mimi
@mimi10v3
Hmm, I was in Fairfax in 90s to 00s, feel like it was in the process of being watered down when I was there... TJ wasn't as rigorous as everyone pretends.
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proteales 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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In my school we had ~5 difficulty levels: special education, level 3 remedial, level 2 default, level 1 pretty tough, and “advanced placement” was extremely challenging. Can be different per subject You could request to go up or down a level, but if you struggled you get bumped
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proteales 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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It was mostly self sorting, because if you took a class that was too difficult for you, they would fail you and you’d have to redo the course. I’m not sure how this is supposed to work for younger kids.
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Jannik Biergans
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What's wrong with just skipping a year for "gifted" kids, though? I did that in 2nd grade, then it turned out the 3rd grade teacher was pretty bad (in the sense that she gave us literally hours of homework every day), so I came back after like 3 weeks