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California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones

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412 points tafda | 2 comments | 26 Nov 24 16:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.454s | source
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resource_waste ◴[26 Nov 24 17:19 UTC] No.42247630[source]▶
What is the goal for gifted students?

Skip a grade and teach them stuff ahead of time (No, their social skills cant handle it apparently)

Teach them extended topics... aka waste their time on stuff they can already do.

I was able to skip 1 grade in college due to my insistence on taking college classes in high school. Everyone from parents to teachers were against it. Had a random adult I met working tell me about it and I got it in my head.

I don't really understand pacing of US K12. In Retrospect, its basically teaching people math and reading skills. If we are just looking for daycare, sure the status quo is fine. Otherwise it seems school should be built around those fields rather than arbitrary ages.

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1. bachmeier ◴[26 Nov 24 18:00 UTC] No.42248107[source]▶
> I was able to skip 1 grade in college due to my insistence on taking college classes in high school. Everyone from parents to teachers were against it. Had a random adult I met working tell me about it and I got it in my head.

I don't know your circumstances or when you were in school, but my son is in high school in Kansas, and he's taking university classes with the encouragement of the school. And not easy classes, either. One of them is a proof-based Calc III. I'm working with a high school student to give them a research experience (they obviously can't do much, but they get exposed to the research process, which is pretty exciting). The high school gives them credit for doing it.

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