![]() I often wonder too if the main purpose of putting all the gifted kids in a closet wasn’t simply so that the teachers could keep us away from all of those other, “normal” students.Īnyhow, I was diagnosed as gifted, took all those advanced courses early, got a perfect score on the SAT (because it wasn’t so complicated back then), got a pretty excellent scholarship to an Ivy League-ish university to complete an engineering degree in 4 years, then completed a doctorate in the next 4 years, wrote a (lucky) grant, published a dozen “prestigious” scientific papers, and found myself running a research division. I realize now that what the school didn’t have is any sort of funding for kids like us, in order to make some sort of plan for kids like us. It seems pretty obvious to me that the school district didn’t have any sort of plan for kids like us, and I often found myself with the other gifted kids stuck into some sort of a renovated closet in a hidden schoolway corridor serving as the improvised classroom. And, entering these preteen years, with my ego already beginning to develop on its own without any of their outside help, it inflated to a much larger size than my small body was really equipped to handle at that point. The teachers were all equally gifted and talented in their own ways at building up my belief that I was to be treated special by the adults in school. These special programs of course changed every year or so as the various teachers at the school came and went. ![]() I was diagnosed as being gifted by age 7, and by age 10, teachers had implemented all sorts of creative gifted programs, gifted and talented programs, and even gifted 2e programs.
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