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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Classes for gifted children
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 11:24:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 11:24:11 1984
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Special classes for gifted children are definitely preferable to skipping
multiple grades, in my view. I skipped a bunch of grades in elementary
school, and wound up with a social problem in not being able to fit well
into a Grade 5 class at age 7.

I don't think picking the top 7% of the class, based on IQ tests, makes
any sense. It seems to me that only when you have kids who clearly
aren't getting anything out of the regular classes, because they're
already way above the teaching level, should you take them out (perhaps
for part of the day) and give them a special program. There may be
plenty of kids with high "IQs" who fit in fine into the regular program,
and I see no reason to disturb their education simply because we think
they're capable of "more".

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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