<p>My elementary school never thought I was gifted.</p>
<p>I was in it in elementary school.</p>
<p>We did “research powerpoints.” It was not useful at all.</p>
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<p>That’s because you go to a super competitive school. My school was an underperforming school, and so most students failed the state tests.</p>
<p>Gifted at my school meant give extra busy work to the smart kids so they would be busy the whole day…and yes i was in it.</p>
<p>Elementary school thought I wasn’t, middle school and high school did. I wonder who got it right?</p>
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<p>Oh okay I see! Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Luckily, we didn’t have a program named “gifted and talented.” All students are “gifted and talented” to some degree. Instead, we had advanced and regular courses and students could take a test for each and based on their score could choose the advanced or regular course, much like highschool.</p>
<p>Jeez truffliepuff, then you ask how to be humble? This isn’t a chance thread so no need to post all your stats to impress people. Gosh, don’t you get it??</p>
<p>edit: why is this thing not quoting the post?</p>
<p>Nope, never made it. Realized it doesn’t work when I’m at the top and some of my friends are at 3.4/3.5 weighted =/</p>
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<p>I don’t think he get’s it.</p>
<p>99th percentile IQ representin’! :)</p>
<p>Honestly, though, it doesn’t mean much. Yeah, I’m smart, but not so good at math/science lol. There are plenty of people smarter than me (including one of my friends who took Calc BC as an eighth grader, and is in AP Phsyics C - Mechanics as a freshman 0.o).</p>
<p>I was considered to be gifted in elementary school.</p>
<p>In kindergarten, my teacher (who also just generally adored me) gave me special books. I got to go to the other classroom to read poetry and chapter books with the first graders. The day I recited a poem from memory, on stage, dressed in a firefly costume, along with a first grader is one of the highlights of my early life.
In first grade, my teacher (who hated me) told my mother that I knew I was smarter than the other children and knew, or something ridiculous like that. She was a total grump, didn’t let me go on a field trip to see butterflies, made me memorize all the countries in Asia and build a solar cooker. I left her class after a year.
In second grade, I did math with the third graders (as did a guy who still does math with me now). I got to skip all cursive lessons, but that was just because my 1st grade teacher only allowed cursive.
In 3rd grade, I went to the other class for vocab with the 4th graders. My teacher (who loved my whole family) got special math problems for me, the aforementioned boy, and one of his friends.
In 4th grade, I think I did everything normal, but I skipped some English stuff since I had already done it.
In 5th grade, I was permanently moved a year ahead in math in late September. (I remember because on 9/11, I had to walk to my friend’s house to get her math book. If I had already been moved to 6th grade math, I couldn’t have done that.)
In remained ahead in math for 6th grade. A girl who was too talkative in her 4th-6th class moved to our class. She was also ahead in math, so I worked with her, which was great, because otherwise I would have been alone. Besides that, I mostly challenged myself. Like, on vocab quizzes, instead of just writing the definition, I would also write the etymology of the word – which I looked up myself – mostly to prepare for the Latin I knew I would take next year.
But those were more like “this is too easy for you, Millancad” type of things. The actual gifted program started the year I was in 6th grade.</p>
<p>At first, we met every Tuesday and Thursday for maybe an hour or two in the afternoons. Then we switched to Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It was me, that girl with whom I did 7th grade math, one of my friends, and this 5th grader who now goes to private school. I think the racial makeup was funny in comparison to my advanced classes now: two black kids, one biracial (black/white) kid, one white kid.
Anyway, we each wrote a report on the Iraq War, then we did a group project that involved measuring everyone in the school and learning an ishton about statistics. We also did random exercises, one of which I saw again in 7th grade, taking 8th grade math, and one of which I saw again in 8th grade Honors English, so I guess it was advanced.
However, I very much disliked it, as did we all. Separation based on anything was completely contrary to everything I had learned in my childhood. I went to a Montessori school; we were together despite age (3 years/grades to a class), despite physical incapability, despite intelligence. There were kids confined to wheelchairs in my classes, kids who would have been special ed in other schools (though these kids did have personal assistants, to not overload the teacher and the instructional assistant). Classes were supposed to be able to fit everyone’s needs, and I felt that they did. It seemed completely unnecessary for me to go outside of my classroom to study something. More than that however, it seemed completely wrong, that the smart should be segregated from those who could not quite keep up. </p>
<p>Then, the next year, I left for my current high school, where one must pass a test to attend.
The year after that, I, along with the other top 80 students in my high school class, were placed in Honors courses for the next two years.
For the rest of my high school career, I chose selective AP classes.
Then an incredibly selective college.
And so I go, each year departing more and more from my early principles.</p>
<p>Yep, in elementary school. We studied Shakespeare. :)</p>
<p>Haha, I was identified as “Gifted, Learning Disabled.” Maybe they just tagged on gifted to the front in order for me not to feel bad about myself? In any event, I got nothing special :-/</p>
<p>^Considering your indicated future location, I think not :).</p>
<p>In my state they actually mark you as special education when you test into the Gifted program. You get IEP’s and weird special ed stuff. It’s pretty funny.</p>
<p>In Kindergarten, I outsmarted the teacher because she couldn’t rhyme words, but she asked for me to be put in special ed because I couldn’t draw well to compensate for her miscues. In First Grade, we took daily spelling tests, I actually GRADED the spelling tests, aced them all, in the afternoon, I went to play with Lite-Brites in the dark, more fun than anything in class and this was “special ed” ■■■■■.</p>
<p>In elementary school, I was. And then they never bothered to re-test me/my parents never really understood it/I was too young to care, so in middle school it never meant anything, and now I wonder if I would still be considered “gifted”.</p>
<p>I feel like I’ve gotten away with half effort in high school a lot…I am ranked 9 in my class, but I feel like most of the rest of my school’s top 50 worked a lot harder than me. So does that make me gifted and lazy? Or just lucky? I pick some concepts up quickly/easily, I suppose.</p>
<p>It’s all BS to me though. The people in my class that are the most successful, and are going to Ivies and all the prestigious colleges, are going there because they work their butts off, not because they’re “gifted”.</p>
<p>Tested in first grade by a writing sample! I did not qualify, per the teacher’s opinion . My dad knew I had the smarts, so he had me tested by the school district through Stanford-Binet, on their dime, if I was identified as a genius! I tested at 99%. The teacher was actually ticked to have been shown how inept she was. She never liked how I rapidly and perfectly completed tasks. She resisted giving me extra work so I would not be bored. Meanwhile, the gifted program was not challenging. However, the IB middle years programme, starting in grade 6 was fairly interesting. IB physics and Calc. has had challenging moments.</p>
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<p>i’m not trying to impress anybody. i am only trying to tell the OP that the gifted program is not as all bad as he is perceiving it as. i also find his/her’s logic a fallacy in that parents will be led to believe that the child is a brilliant genius causing that child to slack off. definitely not 100% true.</p>
<p>being in a gifted program is much better than being with all those regular children i can tell you that. i wouldn’t have pursued a majority of those “stats” hadn’t it been for being in the gifted program. in the gifted program, we were exposed to many different things that the regular students were not and that is how i found my passion of computer programming because the gifted students were given special laptops and computer sessions. </p>
<p>in fact, i almost wasn’t eligible for the gifted program because on the NAT (the test administered for GATE eligibility), the test booklet was an old overused one that other children before me bubbled in even though they weren’t supposed to (had to answer on an answer sheet) and i just basically filled in the already-bubbled in bubbles. my mom negotiated with the gifted program’s administrator to let me have a retake with a clean test sheet and i scored 100%. had it not been for my mom, i would have never been exposed to other advanced, gifted children that would have motivated me to pursue all those stats and give me a greater edge than if i was with regular students. i honestly think gifted programs can be a life-changing experience. it has allowed me to compete and strengthen my capabilities into having all those “stats,” & i actually think it is the opposite of what the OP believes, that being with regular students, is what is the true logic. i’m not trying to be arrogant.</p>