“The nation’s infrastructure to serve our high-ability and high-potential students is in disrepair and in urgent need of attention,” said NAGC President Paula Olszweski-Kubilius, a professor of education at Northwestern University. Schools have forever been challenged by budget constraints, too few high-performing educators who have the necessary specialized training, and plenty of students with high needs that keep them from achieving even average grades.īut most significant was the enactment of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which took the wind out of the sails of gifted programs by forcing schools to put a greater focus on the achievements of their lowest performers.Īccording to a National Association for Gifted Children’s report released last week, gifted students are being held back by inadequate teacher preparation and professional development, little public accountability and inconsistent access to services. and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities” - are routinely ignored in public education. The fact is that gifted students - defined by federal law as “youth who give evidence of high achievement capability. Public schools are not set up to support or enrich gifted students, who often come across as bored and listless or energetic troublemakers, because they’re not being challenged. And through hundreds of hours of classroom observations, I never once got to sit in on a class for gifted students. I have a master’s degree in special education, but when I rack my brain, I can recall only one or two class sessions, tops, during my teacher training that were devoted to gifted students. *** Public schools are failing the most gifted students It was written by ESTHER CEPEDA I’m curious to hear people’s thoughts…. I also got a link to this article in the Sun Times about the decrease in Gifted spots in the city, due to the phasing out of the South Loop Regional Gifted Center to make more room in the school for neighborhood kids.Īctually, I’m unclear whether this is an “article” or an opinion piece. I’ll put my response in the Comments section. So we did not do test prep or any of that stuff.ĭo you have any thoughts or experience with this? Is it super weird that all of these kids were testing in 15 minutes and took my daughter 50? I am dying to know what when on in that room, but all my daughter will say is…”most of it was easy, there were 3 money questions that were hard and I did not understand the sentence about the blocks.” (Which she later told me she was instructed to read the sentence to herself, but she read them out loud.) Whatever that means.” My husband and I are both people who stressed our whole life about the need for a perfect GPA and take fun approach to learning with her. She pretty much does all of this on her own, just loves to learn. Has been reading since she was 3.5 years old, knows her numbers to 100, etc. My daughter however, was in there for a little over 50 minutes. In fact the 5 other children taken into the test were ALL back within 15 minutes. One particular tester said, “We’ll be back in 10 or 15 minutes.” Sure enough, she was back with the child in 10 minutes. The testers came in to retrieve the children about 1 minute apart and early. When we arrived there were about 6 other children. ![]() ![]() “My daughter took the 4 year old test last Friday. ![]() It’s always fun for other parents going through this to hear what other people experience. I got 2 emails today about gifted stuff and it might be fun to discuss something different for a while.
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