Most K-12 education time is spent on the bulk of the children in the middle with some attention to those with special needs. Rarely do we hear or read about "gifted" children. Why? It seems that there is concerted effort to make everyone "equal". Excellence is downplayed because other children not so well wired may feel bad about themselves. Well the time has come to focus on those who excel either by grit or by ability or parents who push and prod and help. So, today we bring you an article published at Verywellfamily. The writer is Carol Bainbridge. Please note that the website may earn from any purchases you make through links they provide. Understanding that we still think their … [Read more...]
Teacher: Public Schools Can’t Support Gifted Students
From Intellectual Takeout - author is Annie Holmquist Over the weekend, columnist Jay Mathews presented a revealing anecdote in The Washington Post about the nature of public education. According to Mathews, Maryland student Caitlyn Singam recently graduated at age 15 with an SAT score of 2200. Such a feat is impressive, particularly since her kindergarten teacher wanted to make Caitlyn a special needs student because she read “too fast”: “But the teacher agreed to wait for test results. When she saw them, she did a complete turnaround. She ‘began to insist that public schools simply didn’t have the means to support my daughter,’ Singam said. She encouraged him to enrich the … [Read more...]
What’s it Like to Be a Gifted Student in a Rigid Classroom?
From the site: NSGY: > > > I was speaking with a mother of a gifted son who was lamenting that her son was not allowed to draw, doodle, or read in class when he had finished an assignment or was bored. The teacher was afraid he would not be paying attention. It made me think of when I was a child and the only way I could attend to what a teacher was saying was to be drawing while listening. That thought made me recall this letter that I have saved in my old files that had been used as an example of what some gifted children experience in rigid classrooms. I saved it because I think it is very poignant and gives us pause to be more sensitive to what such students have … [Read more...]