what is really taught in gifted classrooms?
A quote from the subject of the newest washington scandal... the one that started with a blog:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54736-2004Aug10.html
Jessica finds it curious that she and several of her gifted classmates became underemployed slackers with attitudes. She wonders if that traces back to the lessons they learned in the gifted program. "You kind of create your own moral universe," Jessica says. "It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here."
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12 grade year of homeschooling, Finishing Strong
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I actually had this realization several years ago. That they were using the gifted class rooms as labs for whatever social experiment was popular at the time. In the '80's when I was in the gifted programs there was a lot of new age junk under the guise of multiculturalism. It sounds like now that its the self-esteem movement run amok.
This is one of the multitude of reasons we homeschool.
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