This is coming from a gifted kid who also had a period of burnout, and i’m not saying it applies to everyone, just some people. Yes, the education system is partly to blame and i’m not doubting that at all, but too many people act like they had no role in it. Too many gifted kids become complacent and stop challenging themselves, because they always think they’re going to be better, and then everyone catches up to them bc of their complacency. Plus they begin to think grades are the most important thing, and then when faced with the real world can’t keep up. The education system needs to improve, but more people need to also accept some responsibility

If you were a gifted as a child but wouldn’t be considered gifted now. It’s probably just because you hit developmental markers quicker than everyone else and that everyone’s caught, instead of being too creative for the educational system! And that you’ve been stifled by it. Fundamentally you probably weren’t as special as you remember.

When I was in Primary 3 in the 90s, my batch took an exam for the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) and I was subsequently invited to transfer to Rosyth School to join the GEP. My parents declined on my behalf as we live in Yishun, and did not want me commuting too much at such a young age, something I now agree with and am grateful for.

Has anyone here been part of the GEP or have children in the GEP, and can tell me what would have been different? MOE's current website has just two paragraphs on the GEP. Is it even still going on?

If it matters, I ultimately went through the boring ol' education route (Primary > Secondary > JC > Uni).

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My daughter passed the gifted screening test in Dec and will begin gr 4 classes this Sept. I attended a gifted HS (in Ontario, Canada) back in the 90s. At the time, you could take at least half of your courses in gifted (Eng, all the maths, all the scis, French, certain electives, as well as gr 9 history and gym). Basically, you could attend at least 75% of HS, all in gifted classes.

Looking at various school board gifted websites for HS, I'm seeing a fraction of what was available. e.g. in the board I'm in now, they only have gr 9 10 math and 9 10 Eng. I understand there's been cuts to education and it's always hard to defend gifted programming, but is this common? What more could they possibly reduce it to in the future? Do any of you who went through as gifted have any opinions on what gifted programming is like these days and are you satisfied with it?

Annually, only about 4% of students scoring at or above the admissions cut score come from the eight poorest districts in New York City. Usually the kids in the gifted program have smaller class sizes, individualized learning plans, and more attentive teachers due to the small class size. Usually if your parents have enough time to teach you how to read before elementary school you will do better. Those who start ahead stay ahead those who start behind stay behind. It isn’t very fair for Kyle to get a better education than Billy because Billy’s mom has to work 3 jobs to afford to take care of him.

I’ll tell my story. As an 8 year old I took a test to determine if I was “gifted” or not. I remember looking at my “gifted” step cousin and thinking “why can’t I be like her? Why is she smarter than me? Why am I not as good as her?” I thought I was a failure. This was all because when I was little I grew up in a poor family and I didn’t have the resources she did before elementary school and during elementary school.

The “gifted” kids end up with superiority complexes at an early age and they usually have unrealistic standards. None of this is healthy for young boys and girls yet everyone treats it like it’s normal. Feel free to share your stories in the comments.

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I'm not going to say the American education system is perfect, and I understand that there are people who don't need to study hard (or at all) to do well in their classes. However, it's pretty common sense that if you're going to go to college, you're going to need to learn how to study. It's preached literally everywhere how much more difficult college is than high school, and teachers talk about it all the time. You've had plenty of time to get the memo and take the initiative on learning how to study, but you didn't. And that's on you.

I remember seeing a post where a redditer said that he was "gifted" in grade school and was always used to being the really smart kid. When he went off to a prestigious university he quickly just became average. Anyone have any experiences to share?

Can include good teachers/teaching practices, activities, groups/organizations, experiences working with other gifted students, etc.

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I aged out of gifted education in 1983. Unlike kids who excelled at everything, I excelled at stuff that could not be graded like intellectual, creative, artistic, and leadership capacity. Back then you were either gifted or not gifted. As a partially gifted kid I can go from being the smartest kid in the class the dumbest kid in the class within one hour. Bringing a lot of unwanted attention to me. The only way to take the attention off me was to no longer be the smartest kid.

Rather than teach me it’s okay for gifted kids to be good at somethings and suck at others gifted education taught me I needed to do whatever took to keep others from uncovering I was a fraud. This meant never showing your smart and dumb parts at the same time to the same people. Despite having exited gifted education 37 years ago I still fear someone will uncover my secret. This is nowhere more evident than right before I step on stage. For years I toured colleges as a sole performer. Before coming on stage whoever brought me to campus reads the below. Each time I hear them I feel like a fraud and pray the audience don’t uncover my secret. I am much better on stage than I am on the page.

Chad Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle-based writer, solo-performer, humorist, storyteller and recipient of a distinguished Artist Trust Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and featured on NPR. In 2013 he debuted his sophomore solo show: Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness. The groundbreaking and crushingly honest story of what happens when a black boy, raised by white parents, “ages out” of honorary white and suburban privilege and into a world where folklore, statistics, and conjecture deem him dangerous until proven otherwise. His inaugural solo show, Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, debuted July 2008, and chronicles the performer’s life-long affair with the scale and ten-plus year liaison with an eating disorder. Most recently he debuted his third solo performance “Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of a Well-Dressed AIDS Activist” which explores the paradoxical relationship between fighting to save lives of the unknown while simultaneously engaging in multiple self-harming behaviors. The story is told through the lens of a black gay AIDS activist in the nineties in New Yo

Stupid thing I hear #1 “I don’t want my child thinking that they are smarter than other people”

If I didn’t know I was more intelligent than other people, I would think That my social awkwardness around non-gifted kids my age stemmed from stupidity on my part. If I didn’t know I was gifted, I would Think that my passions were obsessive and nuts, and I would think that I’m mentally ill based on the OCD side affects of of gifted rumination. I would have no self esteem and no knowledge of why I think the way I do.

If someone is smarter than others, they should know that. It’s not selfish, it’s just facts. If I have a gifted child they will be well aware of their Giftedness. If people are offended by me saying I’m gifted (which they never are) I wouldn’t care. I’m not sparing the feelings of kids my age who’s lives consist solely of simping and porn (I cant stand my generation). Facts don’t care about your feelings (this has been Ben shapiro)

Stupid thing I hear #2: “being different is a bad thing. If gifted kids aren’t forced into the same form of education as non-gifted people, they will be too self absorbed in what they like. They shouldn’t be babied, send them to public shook with common core and 9 hours of homework”

Dear sweet god I can’t stand these people. traditional communists they are. No, people aren’t all the same mindless drones deep down, No doing something differently isn’t irrational, it’s not bad to be self absorbed in what you love, and conforming to the social hive mind is not “normal”.

3rd stupid thing I hear: “my white gifted child isn’t really smart, he’s just privileged and thinks with a white mind. Giftedness is just white supremacy and gifted classes are institutional racism”

I hate the people who think this way. Giftedness is real and anyone from any race can be gifted. And being white doesn’t make you smarter. Why aren’t the people who say this called racist?? Do you really think that black people aren’t good at reasoning, so gifted classes are biased to white people?? That’s insane.

I am a newbie high school math teacher. How do you teach a high school class with special education learners, English language learners, and gifted and talented students? What techniques do you use to deal with a class of different abilities? Any tips would you share about dealing with such a class. Thanks!

I was diagnosed as gifted in sixth grade.

(Although I forgot about it and didn’t remember until 3 weeks short of graduating high school, but that’s a different story).

Anyway, throughout my elementary years I was a very troublesome kid, I wouldn’t say a bully, more of a prankster really. The point is I had a really bad rep with admin, like, really bad.

So when they told me I’m special and they told me I should join the gifted program, I, having at the time the emotional maturity of well, a kid, told them to go fuck themselves, because I hated them, just as much as I thought they hated me, and I didn’t feel like being a pawn in their schemes.

But now as an adult (19) I feel tremendous guilt over not taking that opportunity, over essentially taking my “gift” and throwing it in the trash, because of ego.

Anyways, that’s my story.

TL:DR: I rejected my school’s gifted program because I had a bad relationship with admin and a huge ego, but now I feel bad.

It’s possible that the teachers and parents who labeled us as “gifted” were just making excuses for a broken education system. For me, I was defined this way when I displayed boredom and depression as a child. My parents and teachers could tell I was having a hard time fitting in, but they could also see that I was smart for my age. But instead of addressing my emotional issues at the root, they instead chose to have me prescribed anti-depressants and then gave me the “gifted” label in order to squeeze me back in to normality. Only this time I had some idea of being “special” and “superior” to entice me to stay on track with the status quo. Regardless of their intentions, isn’t this a kind of gaslighting? I think the real issue is that we are treated like herd animals in this modern age. Humans didn’t start this conveyor belt, point A to point B life cycle until recently. It isn’t natural to be separated from your family all day from the age of 5 to 18. We’re all basically being parented by a government education system whose sole motive is to produce law-abiding conformist consumer robots. There’s no human/emotional investment outside of it being relevant to that motive. In other words our mental health is only a priority up until the system itself is causing the issue. Then the issue is no longer the system, but in fact US as individuals, whether that means we are “gifted” or “troubled” or “economically/culturally disadvantaged”. The blame is always put on the individual and never the greater societal circumstances with which they exist.

I’m not saying everyone has equal intelligence. It just seems disturbing that smart, depressed kids are given a label and separated into a superior class. All of their issues are glossed over with SSRIs and they are crammed back into the system with a shiny new badge and a pat on the head.