<p>How many of you were identified as gifted as children?</p>
<p>Not by CTY or TIP as those send out "gifted" notices like candy, but by your schools in middle school and elementary school?</p>
<p>Also, would you consider yourself gifted or that you just work hard?</p>
<p>In my experiences, there were two types of people in my relatively small gifted program during middle and elementary school.</p>
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<li><p>Lazy Gifted - my 2 friends and I were in this group. during middle school i remember us bringing in computer manuals and learning about the comps at our schools just for fun. i mean, the computers there were awesome (for little kids)! we didnt care about grades but got good marks regardless of studying or not. one of my friends from this group went to the best magnet school in my state and the other went with me to public high school</p></li>
<li><p>Studious Gifted - you know the type. studies all the time, probably will get the highest SAT scores, probably will get into top 5 colleges. i didnt have disdain for this group per say, but there was an interesting rivalry between my group and these kids.</p></li>
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<p>I was in the gifted program as a child and was encouraged to skip grades.</p>
<p>However, at the time I adamantly refused because in my mind: skipping grades = less time with parents. </p>
<p>I didn’t really care at that time. To me, being in the gifted group meant that I got to read more interested books and participate in cooler science experiments that produced ice cream and silly putty.</p>
<p>However, in middle school it became more complicated. I didn’t care for the gifted group which constantly referred to themselves as “better” and thought that they were significantly smarter. So I began to think that the gifted program was pointless and not fun anymore.</p>
<p>In high school, I chose not to join the gifted program. I find the whole concept rather silly.</p>
<p>i was, but “gifted” in my school district was if our IQ was in the top 20% nationwide, i think, LOL. i am smart but not nearly as smart as many people on this site. i’d put myself in category 2 for the first three years of high school; category 1 at this point.</p>
<p>I was identified as gifted by my school and by CTY. They made us take this gifted class, at first an hour 2 days a week and then three days a week. I hated it. At that point in my life, I had only been educated through the Montessori Method, wherein everyone, from the mentally ■■■■■■■■ to the future Mensa members, was in one class. The idea of separation based off of a few IQ points or GPA disgusted me. The next year, however, I went to a school with an IQ requirement that begins separating students based on GPA in the 8th grade. Evidently, I got used to the idea.</p>
<p>I was never offered the opportunity to ski grades. My school considered that to not be very Montessori. My sister, however, did skip something like 3/4ths of kindergarten at the same school, but it was on account of her age. To make up for not allowing me to skip, they made special allowances for me. In preschool-K, I got special books, and got to go over and work with the first graders. In 1st-3rd, I and two other boys (one of whom is now the 10th rank to my 12th and the other one of whom is still the first’s very best friend) were given special math questions and I went to the 4th-6th grade classroom to work on English. In 4th-6th, from 5th grade on, I did math a year ahead, with the 6th graders the first year, and with a girl who transferred to our class because she was too talkative the second year. She was also in the “gifted” group and went to the hour 2/3 day a week classes with me, as did one of my friends, who, as she has recently told me, has always felt inferior, intellectually, to me, since the time I was given a different math book in 5th grade. (That part makes me sad.)</p>
<p>i was more in both groups… kinda. but i didn’t do the gifted program, my older brother did it, and hated it. it was just lots of busy work at my elementary school, and there was no benefit to doing it. the honors classes were the same as the gifted, and i was in all the honors. the only difference was the gifted were automatically put it, and the others were based on grades.</p>
<p>i am pretty smart, not like genius, but smart to get a’s without studying, but need studying to get that extra +.</p>
<p>Pre-school/Elementary School in Long Island, NY - Smartest Kid in the School
Middle School NC - Still gifted, but like top 5 or 10. I got dropped from the accelerated learning class because I got a C in yearbook because I can’t draw a circle good. :\ I had A’s throughout middle school except a C in Yearbook because it meant nothing and I can’t draw and my penmanship is bad.</p>
<p>I was mostly in the second group. I didn’t know how to read before kindergarten, but by semester, my teacher told my mom she was worried because she was only certified up to 5th grade. This is kinda sad, but my mom used to volunteer in my kindergarten classroom, and she asked me why I would never raise my hand to answer a question, and I said that it was pointless because both the teacher and I knew that I had the right answer and that I knew she never called on me because she wanted to give other kids a chance.
The TAG program in elementary school was kind of a joke, but I was in everything they did. It was only an hour or two a month, and you read books and took quizzes on them. I’ve been as advanced in math as possible, but in middle and high school there was no gifted program at all.
I did get accepted to the Davidson Young Scholars in middle school, but I was never really very involved in it or anything.</p>
<p>I was not in a gifted program but skipped a grade and made the cut for Duke TiP in addition to the national recognition ceremony for that program. Did not go to the summer camp which doesn’t make me an official TiPper but oh well.
Was in the IB program but dropped out due to family problems.
I probably was the one that studied all the time. Never been a slacker, always underestimated by ability in things and did even better than my raw ability allowed me to.
Almost flunked 4th grade though -_- ah well. That was when I was lazy.</p>
<p>I was considered “gifted” in elementary school when I lived in Tennessee. They sent me to this special program every once in a while and I got to skip 1st grade :D</p>
<p>Although once I moved to Connecticut in 3rd grade it stopped. My school didn’t really like kids skipping grades or gifted programs. It was kind of like everyone’s at the same level but it didn’t bother me.</p>
<p>And idk, a lot of people think I’m like a genius just because I skipped 1st grade but that was so long ago. I consider myself smart but not anymore than a lot of other intelligent kids in my grade. I have straight A’s but so do a lot of other people.</p>
<p>Oh and to answer your question, definitely 1,lol. I’m honestly such a slacker! Sometimes I feel kind of bad because there are people who actually work hard and study to get B’s while I’m kind of just breezing by with A’s in everything. (But that’s just because high school is kind of simple IMO. It’s just memorizing and regurgitating facts I’m hoping college is MUCH more interesting)</p>
<p>It only really mattered in elementary school, where we got to leave to go to our own separate classroom with our own teachers, which was really fun because it got us out of doing busy work. Middle school, they started gradually moving us back in with everybody else full-time, although we got accelerated in math 2 years. Now, in my non-magnet hs, the whole gifted thing is just a label.</p>
<p>And I’m definitely lazy gifted- I can get away with just skimming the chapter once and still get an A on the test. My lazy friends and I are kind of in a bit of a rivalry with the study-holics too!</p>
<p>I didn’t speak much when I was little so the teachers at the Motessori school thought that I was slow and told my parents that they were going to have my IQ tested… It was a lot higher than they expected.</p>
<p>I’m in the second group, but I doubt I’ll get into a T5 college or get fanasmical SATs. We took a test in second grade and were in separate english and math classes through elementary school, but it hasn’t mattered since then.</p>
<p>I was a late joiner to my school district’s Talented and Gifted program (joined in 6th grade), but before that I’d skipped a grade. Through TAG, I was able to get into more advanced classes in high school, since my state doesn’t have any magnet schools and I didn’t want to go to a private school (not that it was really an option anyway, with such high prices). I don’t think I was ever recognized as truly gifted (and I’m really not), just really smart (which I think I am). Actually, I failed the biggest project of the year in 4th grade…</p>
<p>My parents never knew anything about CTY or Davidson’s programs or anything, so I never did any of that stuff. I don’t really care. I don’t feel like it would’ve helped me.</p>
<p>i attended a “gifted” school from 4th-8th grade.
im part of the lazy gifteds unfortunately.
my sats are okay–they would be better if i put in time to study
im ranked number 1 in my class…but do i spend a lot of time studying or doing hw compared to others?–no.</p>
<p>Yeah I was. Starting in 3rd grade I was part of the GATE program (gifted and talented education). That continued on through middle school, then high school is either AP or IB classes, but my particular high school doesn’t offer IB.</p>
<p>I was in the gifted group in elementary school. In fifth grade I applied and was accepted to a gifted program affiliated with a neighboring school district, called PEGS, or Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students. I attended through middle school and skipped sixth grade. Then, I returned to my home school district for high school, simply because it was a far easier commute. </p>
<p>IQ wise, I’m in the 99.9911555410% percentile, which actually makes me wonder how high some of the people at my school scored. There’s a freshman I know who took Calc BC in eighth grade and is currently in AP Physics, and many others who are super advanced in math/science. Compared to them, I’m not that smart, but I’m okay with that. It’s actually sort of scary how intelligent they are lol.</p>
<p>@MissxSilverwing, I wonder where you live.
If you live in Newton, Mass. then that kid did not take Calc BC in eight grade.
If you go to Troy, then I’m fairly confident that the kid did not take Calc BC in eight grade either.
If not, then this is just a random comment.</p>
I’m hoping college is MUCH more interesting)</p>