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This is absolutely what will happen. The state is forcing people to teach their kids at home and the children who don't have that support structure are going to

by carom 5y ago

This is absolutely what will happen. The state is forcing people to teach their kids at home and the children who don't have that support structure are going to get left behind. It almost seems like it will become common for students to skip grades.

onecommentman 5y ago
Are there still public summer school programs for gifted students on advanced topics? There were in my day. And I assume those programs nowadays would teach students how to use online resources to advance even farther in math in their spare time than the summer school. Maybe extend those options to a broader range of students. Yeah, home schooling may also get a big boost, with a stronger use of online resources that allow students to advance at their own pace. Maybe partial home schooling for math and science? Motivated gifted kids with access to the Internet at home, and a stable home environment, aren’t going to have a problem. But they will need to pick up the ball that the public schools will be dropping. Gifted students in public schools are used to working around those sorts of issues. Skipping grades would be problematic in my experience. Socialization and broadened perspectives have to be gotten somehow. Crash-and-burns are pretty common.
MandieD 5y ago
It would be great if skipping grades became more commonly acceptable, especially for the sake of children whose parents don’t have the wherewithal to get them advanced instruction (either through own knowledge or money). I would have liked to skip a grade in elementary or middle school, but instead ended up in the back with an algebra book - from which I taught myself the parts I was interested in, but glossed over the parts I didn’t like. If I’d been able to skip a grade, I would have been forced to sit through all of it, and that would have been a good thing.

by carom 5y ago

onecommentman 5y ago

Are there still public summer school programs for gifted students on advanced topics? There were in my day. And I assume those programs nowadays would teach students how to use online resources to advance even farther in math in their spare time than the summer school. Maybe extend those options to a broader range of students. Yeah, home schooling may also get a big boost, with a stronger use of online resources that allow students to advance at their own pace. Maybe partial home schooling for math and science? Motivated gifted kids with access to the Internet at home, and a stable home environment, aren’t going to have a problem. But they will need to pick up the ball that the public schools will be dropping. Gifted students in public schools are used to working around those sorts of issues. Skipping grades would be problematic in my experience. Socialization and broadened perspectives have to be gotten somehow. Crash-and-burns are pretty common.

MandieD 5y ago

It would be great if skipping grades became more commonly acceptable, especially for the sake of children whose parents don’t have the wherewithal to get them advanced instruction (either through own knowledge or money). I would have liked to skip a grade in elementary or middle school, but instead ended up in the back with an algebra book - from which I taught myself the parts I was interested in, but glossed over the parts I didn’t like. If I’d been able to skip a grade, I would have been forced to sit through all of it, and that would have been a good thing.