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Are gifted children getting lost in the shuffle?
- VLM 13y agoLooking from the inside out, rather than outside in, WRT "often shifted focus away from them", I was able to self educate fairly well, at least in computers and physics, whereas people who were also highly talented but couldn't self educate, basically wasted their time or got frustrated. "There’s this idea that gifted students don’t really need any help" This also fits my theory above. Once they learn how to self educate you need a push in the right direction and not much else. Both my high school physics teacher and programming teacher were pretty good about this... "accelerated coursework, AP classes and educational programs" end when school ends. Self education continues your whole life. If I stopped educating myself when I got out of school... I wouldn't know a fraction of what I know now. So self educational skills are waaaaay more important than any special coursework, classes, or programs.