Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Classes for gifted children Message-ID: <3223@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 11:24:11 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3223 Posted: Wed Feb 1 11:24:11 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Feb-84 11:46:21 EST References: <117@ihnet.UUCP> Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 18 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 -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave