<p>Who on CC was identified as "gifted"?</p>
<p>…can you be more specific?</p>
<p>once upon a time I was gifted…
then I enterered Middle school</p>
<p>That reminds me of this
[Special</a> Boy With Freakishly Large Brain Wins Spelling Bee](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCC7LuTQ_x0]Special”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCC7LuTQ_x0)</p>
<p>Who was admitted into their school’s gifted program? Who took that crap gifted test?</p>
<p>you mean that “gifted and talented”?</p>
<p>I never understood that program, we got to play with legos a lot more and then we were told we were smart, put up front and given a laptop to write in once a week. Also bigger spelling words. </p>
<p>I still don’t see the point besides bragging right for parents early on.</p>
<p>I took that last year and then the 9 of us that got picked were taken on a tour of Ferrum College.</p>
<p>yeah i was gifted</p>
<p>Gifted programs are bad, they just set you up for failure later on in your academic career lol</p>
<p>I was in it. My mom made me take the test in elementary school because she was certain I was gifted. Well, she was right.</p>
<p>I certainly don’t feel gifted, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>^^ i am currently and still probably will be ranked number 1 in my class of 637 and i am ahead of the #2 person by 0.2 points which means i can get 2 C’s and still be #1, i was admitted into california’s number one high school (left because it had ridiculous people and teachers), i play recital and competition piano, i can program in C++, Java, Python & Perl, i play tennis and b-ball, i study and attend a Chinese school of which I am #1 in that as well…</p>
<p>oh yes, i had certainly set myself up for failure in my academic career by being labeled as gifted</p>
<p>My older brother was in it, hated it, left after middle school.</p>
<p>So my younger brother and I never entered the TAG program if that’s what you mean.</p>
<p>I think it just made my ego even bigger at a young age.</p>
<p>Yeah I was in it. Good challenge since regular elementary school classes were too easy for me.</p>
<p>I was in the 99th percentile on the tests. It really is pointless to me. HS Gifted has interesting philosophical seminars.</p>
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<p>I think it’s just that this whole “every child is special and gifted and beautiful” mentality kinda turns children into these dicks. The whole motivational things turn people into egotistical douchbags at times. A [url=<a href=“http://tomweston.net/RaisingSmartKids.pdf]study[/url”>http://tomweston.net/RaisingSmartKids.pdf]study[/url</a>] by researches from Columbia and Stanford University found that frequently-praised kids eventually came to believe that intelligence and talent were things they were born with, things which under no possible circumstances could be improved. Consequently, they avoided academic situations that presented any kind of challenge and refused to see the value in any activity that required effort, because if they were so freaking amazing, nothing worth doing should be hard, right? As a result grades drop and so did motivation, but bragging and annoying personality increased.</p>
<p>So just don’t believe everything your mom says about how awesome you are and avoid turning into a bragging egotistical jerk no one would like to hang around. It’s all good.</p>
<p>LOL. i never was. My brother is…he’s in elementary school atm though…scored in the top 1% for reading and math in the state… (he’s in gifted & talented)…so are a lot of my younger cousins in the family (one’s gonna go to thomas jefferson magnet school in Alexandria,Va)…older cousins go to top schools & ivy league schools like princeton & yale…</p>
<p>My sister is practically a genius…biomedical engineer @ a top school…maintained a 3.8+ gpa (very tough for engineering)…got interneships thru harvard & nyu…currently wants to pursue a PhD. gonna get her masters soon.</p>
<p>Me: I’m the “stupid” one. I guess i’m just a late bloomer? <em>sighs</em> …i was kinda behind in elementary school…then it clicked in middle school…■■■…hahaaha</p>
<p>^ …especially slow in math…ironically…unlike my siblings.</p>
<p>We had a gifted program in elementary school but it was really stupid. We met once a month or so and did a project, like write a story or read a book… but since we were “gifted,” it didn’t take us a month to finish the project, and so the program was pretty redundant. In middle school we had compacting and differentation (when high scoring students are grouped together and given more difficult material to conquer) in sixth grade and then honors classes began in seventh grade. We did have this period in seventh and eighth grade called… crap, what was it called? I don’t remember, but it was 40 minutes every day where most kids did state test prep. Higher achieving students had class readings, did SAT prep (no, seriously - seventh grade), had homework time, had reading groups, etc.</p>
<p>^^ I know what you mean by genius siblings!</p>
<p>My older brother is super lazy, and recently (during him in college) started to get a work ethic! He’s kinda directionless too 
He loves languages (fluent in English, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian, German, and Japanese), but believes in “practical” careers. He’s thinking of becoming a doctor, but isn’t sure. But he’s a genius, demonstrated by SAT tests, (real) IQ test, MENSA, etc.</p>
<p>I, on the other hand, am hardworking and persevering 
I (kinda) have a direction in life (actress or writer/professor at a university). So I’m happy!</p>
<p>^ Did you guys really study for state test? I’m surprised. Even at my super competitive public school, we never practiced for those things… I did well anyways (99%tile). Huh. You learn new things every day!</p>
<p>^^^^ that has never happened to the people i spent with in gate (our gifted program). everyone loved learning and we were brilliant but we didn’t turn that into a severe arrogance that prevented us from learning. we loved to read and discover new things and actually being named gifted motivated us to become better and it gave us more opportunities such as giving us more advanced content. and we all loved the challenges in the advanced content, especially math. those studies don’t account for EVERYONE just as stereotypes aren’t necessarily true for everyone.</p>
<p>it also kept us safe from those other students in other classes who gave the teachers trouble. being with other gifted and advanced students and seeing how advanced other people can be makes you want to be better than them because of the competition. i find the gifted program very positive and beneficial. but i guess it varies from district to district. ABCUSd’s elementary school gifted program is one of the best.</p>
<p>our parents also didn’t think that we were good. almost everyone was asian…and you know how asian parents are. they think their children are always failures…and they always sent us to afterschool academics also known as “bu xi” in chinese so we could get 150% on tests & stuff…later on in high school now, it’s SATs</p>