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My six year old daughter just accepted into GIFTED PROGRAM! Public school - be worried or proud?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 69680414:MV8yOTg1NzcyXzUyODc1MjU3XzZBRUY4QjBF] In Florida, the gifted program schools are always smack dab in the middle of the hood. So they basically send the really smart kids to school with the hood rats in hope that through some sort of intellectual osmosis, the dumb kids will absorb some intelligence. It's been experience from observing such social experiments, that it is usually the other way around. The smart kids usually try to fit in socially by acting like those they are surrounded by all day. A smart, ambitious kid doesn't need a gifted program. They will be smart and ambitious anywhere they go. [/quote]
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So my baby June, in 1st Grade - her teacher at the last PTO (We call them that in this State) - they are teaching her 3rd Grade English and Math since she "naturally" is able to pick up on the 1st/2nd grade material.
Now - I've read other threads... about gifted children being "targeted" -
Hell, I just read something about during the Cold War they really pushed the "gifted program" for students and "morphed" them...
So I'm super excited - yet also worried.
I'm not a mother, I'm a Dad - so there's a slight disconnect, (Boys love Mom, Girls Love Dad) - yet Dad's don't have that magic intuition that Mothers do.
Since it's a Public School, should I be worried?
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