Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu...
by abirch on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:00PM
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Check out Numberblocks from the BBC. My kindergartner found it while she was in Pre-K and learned multiplication and division on her own.
Much of our intelligence is from our parents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
I'm just stating that my kids' elementary school is nicer than those in our county and definitely from my hometown. They do receive a lot more money than what my hometown spent.
Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu...
by logifail on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:05PM
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> Check out Numberblocks from the BBC
Heh, our daughter (who doesn't start school until September) knows all the Numberblocks and Alphablocks episodes...
Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu...
by rootusrootus on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:55PM
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We no longer read to our kids, and it makes me both happy and sad. Happy because they are voracious readers on their own, but sad because damn, childhood goes by quick...
There's plenty of evidence that parental attitudes are a big factor:
"Middle-class pupils do better because parents and schools put more effort into their education, according to a study [..] factors studied were the parents' interest in their children's education, measured by, for example, whether they read to their children or attended meetings with teachers"[0]
(Full disclosure: my wife and I read - and have read - to our kids almost every single night)
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/oct/29/middle-cla...