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GATE programs are underfunded and to the extent they exist they only make it worse most of the time because they basically are telling you: you are elite! and i

GATE programs are underfunded and to the extent they exist they only make it worse most of the time because they basically are telling you: you are elite! and in your school you probably are, but you're usually still in the same school. Most of the time it's just pull outs. Also, I wasn't screwed over. I live a charmed existence that I am thankful for every day. (= eta: 100% agree we need to teach kids about failure. I understand the concerns about too much, but right now I don't think they are exposed to enough.

anonymouskimmer 3y ago
College instead of high school is a nice alternative in some states. There are some magnet schools for highly gifted or aptitudinally talented students, including an online one: https://www.davidsongifted.org/the-davidson-academy/ https://www.davidsongifted.org/the-davidson-academy/ But yeah, the situation for regularly gifted students is often as you say. And any school program that truly held them to higher standards would also end up penalizing them with lower grades that would make them look non-competitive to highly selective universities. > but right now I don't think they are exposed to enough. Except those in the bottom 25%. They are human too, and deserve a good, well-tailored education.
- AlbertCory 3y ago
  Actually, in my college dorm we had a guy who was only 16 who'd been accelerated. I wouldn't exactly say he was "bullied," but he didn't have a very easy time of it.
  - anonymouskimmer 3y ago
    Someone who isn't a legal adult shouldn't be dorming with legal adults. That was a bad setup.
8note 3y ago
Up there on good childhood choices was being accepted to the gate program, and not wanting to do it
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago
  For me it was a bad choice to only take one year of community college in lieu of high school, instead of two. And being mainstreamed in math at the beginning of middle school instead of accelerated a year was particularly painful. Anecdotes are plentiful.

anonymouskimmer 3y ago

College instead of high school is a nice alternative in some states. There are some magnet schools for highly gifted or aptitudinally talented students, including an online one: https://www.davidsongifted.org/the-davidson-academy/ https://www.davidsongifted.org/the-davidson-academy/ But yeah, the situation for regularly gifted students is often as you say. And any school program that truly held them to higher standards would also end up penalizing them with lower grades that would make them look non-competitive to highly selective universities. > but right now I don't think they are exposed to enough. Except those in the bottom 25%. They are human too, and deserve a good, well-tailored education.

AlbertCory 3y ago
Actually, in my college dorm we had a guy who was only 16 who'd been accelerated. I wouldn't exactly say he was "bullied," but he didn't have a very easy time of it.
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago
  Someone who isn't a legal adult shouldn't be dorming with legal adults. That was a bad setup.

8note 3y ago

Up there on good childhood choices was being accepted to the gate program, and not wanting to do it

anonymouskimmer 3y ago
For me it was a bad choice to only take one year of community college in lieu of high school, instead of two. And being mainstreamed in math at the beginning of middle school instead of accelerated a year was particularly painful. Anecdotes are plentiful.