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Message Subject Were You Part Of The "Mentally Gifted Minds" Program In California Scools back in the 70's?
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Interesting about the lack of computer exposure. Here's what my daughter who is in 5th grade TAG had to say about what goes on in terms of curriculum. The TAG kids are split into TWO groups. One group goes into the library where they do reading/writing and the other group (hers) goes into a chlorine smelling classroom to do number theory. The thing is, my daughter is gifted in writing and her teachers have remarked on it and the fact that she has already developed voice in her writing, which they say most people never manage to do. Math is her least favorite and worst subject and this number theory class runs at the same time as the rest of her class is doing normal 5th grade math. This distresses her because she feels like she's going to fall behind in learning what she's supposed to be learning in her worst subject. It also distresses and aggravates her because she isn't being allowed into the reading/writing gifted group and is stuck in the number theory group. To be fair, she was personally invited to go to a local university for a writers' workshop with a prize winning author. Only a few kids per school got that invite so they, at least, are acknowledging her actual area of "giftedness" in that.

Getting this "glimpse" of what they are doing now tells me that either:

a. they are pushing her into this subject because they discovered that she is a low key human calculator (just like her mom) and it's more STEM based. They also ranked her future potential jobs, from most likely to least likely, as doctor, scientist, and artist and because of that, are focusing on the STEM.

b. they are pushing her into the numbers theory group because she already shows giftedness in writing/reading and they want to try to cultivate a possible potential "gift" in math. Distinct possibility as she does find what they are doing to be interesting.

c. they want to make her school life a living hell by forcing her into a subject that she doesn't like. She is aggravated by this arrangement plus the worries, which I think are very real and normal worries that any kid would have if they had struggled in a subject and found themselves removed from class during the normal teaching period for it.

She was recently state tested and her scores came back very good in all subjects with strengths in the reading/writing so it's not had an untoward effect on her math portions yet. Psychologically? Not so sure and she and I have discussed that she can leave TAG at anytime that she wishes. She knows that I am less than affectionate towards TAG classes as I always re-affirm that attitude during these discussions. I have a lot of problems with their arrangements and think that it may, at the end of the day, have a negative and isolating effect on children.

Lack of computer exposure = possibility of two pull out groups back then, too.
 
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