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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
@owenbroadcast
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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
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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alex is in the uk (cambridge)
@pawnofcthulhu
I am like genuinely baffled at the number of people who don’t seem to have “some students understand the material for the entire year when walking into the classroom for the first day, seems dumb to waste their time” in their model of the world
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