Posted on 10/29/2008 2:35:24 PM PDT by reaganaut1
If the demo-rats economic plan is trickle up poverty, then their education plan is trickle up stupidity.
JoMa
My daughter was put into the LARC (Learning Activites etc. I forget, it’s been a long time) program in kindergarten.
All the parents had to go to a meeting with a child psychologist who explained that gifted children are those who dance to a different drummer. They don’t think like “normal”’ people. The giftedness is not just IQ, it is artistic talent and maturity. She said that it had been found that gifted children are more likely to become drug he’saddicts, alcoholics, suicidal. She said that LARC was a sort of intervention program to get gifted children together, coach them, and help them to shine.
My daughter is grown-up now and one day I asked her how the others kids turned out. She said some of them are druggies and alcoholics.
My daughter is fine though.
Many moons ago I was in a majority Black elementary school (Holy Cross, grades 1-8)Los Angeles, and remember testing grade 13 on the standardized tests (in the sixth grade)along with several other students
The reason: The nuns (Sisters of St Joseph)would lay a stick on you if you misbehaved and you would get more when your parents found out.
Plus the nuns drilled you on how to take a test ( “...don’t get stuck on one question....learn to budget your time)
Invaluable advice
75 percent of all children are above average.
It's all good.
I despised school. I was very, very bored. The teachers were drones. But we didn’t have AP or fast-tracking when I went.
I sent my daughter to boarding school in France for her last two years of high school. It wasn’t that expensive, it would have cost more money here. She was enrolled in the Baccalaureate program and that got her into an Ivy League Univ.
You see, some years back there was a controversy here in Federal Way when one of the "honors" students came to a school board meeting and informed the school board that although she took all advanced placement and honors classes, and was the high school valedictorian, when she got to the University of Washington she found herself unprepared for the college level science courses. She was interested in majoring in some sort of science career. Now, this girl was actually speaking to the school board to help them, perhaps, re-evaluate the program and improve it. The school board was not impressed and decided that the problem was (yes, you guessed it), her.
She was informed that not all students adjust well to college. Now, if their valedictorian can't "adjust" to college what are the rest of the graduates from this school system doing? After much discussion in the local paper and elsewhere, it was revealed that the "honors" classes had exactly the same curriculum and textbooks as the regular classes, it was just that you were in a class with other highly motivated students. No real extra challenge.
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