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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:Narcissistic:MV8yOTg1NzcyXzUyODc1MzQxXzlCNTU3NTRE] [quote:HollyWho:MV8yOTg1NzcyXzUyODc1Mjg5XzM4RjlEODQ0] [quote:Narcissistic:MV8yOTg1NzcyXzUyODc0OTQ1XzI5MTM1M0U3] Anybody else here go into a gifted program or has a child in one? Thanks. [/quote] All of my kids were but I don't understand what you mean by targeted. Care to elaborate? College acceptance, smooth Other levels of education post college, smooth Is that what you mean by targeted? [/quote] A few posts above "Testing for psychic powers" and also, Come on, I hang out at GLP - I remember some large thread about some California "gifted" program from the 70s that people were apart of on GLP and they did some "crazy" things.. Every parent thinks their child is the greatest... I'm proud and hopeful she carries this "loving to read and do math" for a scholarship - Yet I don't want her to suddenly end up in a random building at the local State College to be tested at such a young age for these "abilities" As another person pointed above, also. [/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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