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

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412 points tafda | 1 comments | 26 Nov 24 16:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | 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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AstralStorm ◴[26 Nov 24 17:24 UTC] No.42247684[source]▶
Teach them more skills and/or use the extra time they do not need on their strong sides to boost weak ones with extracurricular activities.

Yes, you cannot skip a grade, but nobody is stopping a kid from going to a later grade for some classes really. The school social atmosphere has to be right for it though.

But nobody wants to pay for it.

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1. JoshTriplett ◴[26 Nov 24 18:02 UTC] No.42248137[source]▶
> nobody is stopping a kid from going to a later grade for some classes really

Nobody should be, but many people are.

At a minimum, the college-style model of subject-based classes and prerequisites for those classes should start much, much earlier, in elementary school.

There are elementary-school students who should be in calculus classes, and there are high-school and university students who should be in remedial arithmetic classes. (Though in some cases the latter would be less true if K-12 hadn't failed them so badly thus far.)