Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl...
by willholloway on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:52AM
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Nabla:
I'm going to say you are a special flower. You're smarter than 98% of people. You are 1 in 50 special.
I think from your own words you would have benefited greatly from gifted education. Thinking about your story here, I think that maybe lowering the IQ bar to something like 125 is exactly what gifted education needs.
Look at what you said:
"I could cope with everything and everyone if I tried even a little."
You were coping, and getting by. You are calling it laziness but maybe it was boredom?
Maybe after being bored and unchallenged you became "lazy" at school. I would bet that you were very interested in your own activities that you were interested in.
If we opened up gifted education to 120+ there would be enough students to have a decent sized class in suburban schools.
I'm going to say you are a special flower. You're smarter than 98% of people. You are 1 in 50 special.
I think from your own words you would have benefited greatly from gifted education. Thinking about your story here, I think that maybe lowering the IQ bar to something like 125 is exactly what gifted education needs.
Look at what you said:
"I could cope with everything and everyone if I tried even a little."
You were coping, and getting by. You are calling it laziness but maybe it was boredom?
Maybe after being bored and unchallenged you became "lazy" at school. I would bet that you were very interested in your own activities that you were interested in.
If we opened up gifted education to 120+ there would be enough students to have a decent sized class in suburban schools.