I would have loved to go to a "gifted" school but there weren't any available back then where I was. Perhaps gifted children who are encouraged have better self-esteem and don't usually think they have to make themselves look better by pulling other people down.
I wasn't in a gifted school, but I was in a gifted and talented program. In Elementary school, we would leave once a week during PE to go to our G/T class. Later, the class was part of my regular school schedule and I went there every day. I liked it a lot better than my other classes as far as the academic activites went. However, while the students in G/T did not tease like the other students, I really did not fit in there either. Strangely enough, the majority of the G/T students in Jr. High were in the "popular" crowd. There was only one other student who was unpopular... and she had more friends than I did. I don't know anything about the G/T program in high school, because after Jr. High I switched to home school.
That's the term that is used everywhere. They aren't Indians. "Indians" is slang name. It comes from the fact that Christopher Columbus landed here and he thought he'd found a new route to India but he got it wrong.
Actually the term now in use is Aboriginal peoples.
The only friends I've ever had were people from my high school, which was an academic selective school.
I went to an academic selective school - one of the top girls' schools in England, if you give a damn about league tables - and I hardly had any friends. I only got invited to two parties after the age of 13, and the only "explanation" I got for this social exclusion was that I was too "academic", whatever that meant.
My ex went to an academically selective school. To maintain their high place in the league they would leave out the CD for the music exam for students to take copies of. :roll:
I'm from the States. I went to a public school...but isn't a 'public' school in the States different from what's called a 'public' school in the U.K.? Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that I went to the type of school that's open to the public and paid for by local taxes.
In elementary school I was put in a gifted program within the school. We'd work on various individual projects. I would do some things really well, but was completely flaky when it came to the most simple, practical things. I wasn't able to remain in the program.
Perhaps the students at this new school are not only brighter, but more mature and have more common sense than those at the other school.
Yes, some schools seem to have a much better reputation than others and I think much of that comes from the quality of the head teacher.
I'm from the States. I went to a public school...but isn't a 'public' school in the States different from what's called a 'public' school in the U.K.? Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that I went to the type of school that's open to the public and paid for by local taxes.
In elementary school I was put in a gifted program within the school. We'd work on various individual projects. I would do some things really well, but was completely flaky when it came to the most simple, practical things. I wasn't able to remain in the program.
I went to "public school" in the United State of Maryland, first in
Montgomery County and then in Charles County.
I don't remember much about the special education in Montgomery County, I think it was after kindergarten
I do remember the Emotional Adjustment Program in Charles County, the one elementary, middle, and high school each being in the county seat of La Plata, and the nice bus trip from Waldorf to the north through the eighth grade.
I know that I was at full grade level, and shortly after being sent to home district in eighth grade, my standardized test scores ranged from ninth and tenth (one indicator each) to twelfth grade (all other sub scores).
Wonder what I am now with a Master's and a community college certificate?
Grade 23.5?
We didn't know I was in there for Asperger, until Master's graduation minus seven weeks. We thought it was minimal brain dysfunction (or attention deficit disorder, plus for me, hyperactivity).
Wow, how I wish I'd gone to gifted school.
My NT parents refused to change schools when my WISC results came in and it was recommended that I be shifted to a gifted stream, because they claimed it would make me "arrogant" - They thought I would be better adjusted if I "learned to swim with the normal fish". Ugh. The result was 16 years of hell through the public school system, being constantly mocked and understimulated.
But by far the biggest loss was what I didn't experience - a healthy learning environment with other compatible peers. I learned to resent a lot of NT humanity for what it is on a pretty base level. It's taken a long time to overcome those prejudices and latent hostility toward NTs.
Wow, how I wish I'd gone to gifted school.
My NT parents refused to change schools when my WISC results came in and it was recommended that I be shifted to a gifted stream, because they claimed it would make me "arrogant" - They thought I would be better adjusted if I "learned to swim with the normal fish". Ugh. The result was 16 years of hell through the public school system, being constantly mocked and understimulated.
But by far the biggest loss was what I didn't experience - a healthy learning environment with other compatible peers. I learned to resent a lot of NT humanity for what it is on a pretty base level. It's taken a long time to overcome those prejudices and latent hostility toward NTs.
I was in a gifted program and loved it... we needed more back then for art and theatre, we only had the 3 R's gifted programs and science...
Hey ! I was just called arrogant by someone on the board.. it was like being called ugly by a frog! Yes I hate regrets... I know what you mean.. of things I did not do . I am so glad I never knew I was an NT because I don't hate anyone! I learned acceptance from switching from private religious school to our US public school... I learned from it all but preferred our private school, it was more structured and helped me as an aspie... I try to make everything a learning experience...
Your parents were foolish or ignorant or both... My mother was in some ways.. but she always wanted me to have the best education.
I think Gifted schools are the best thing for an aspie, i too wish i'd gone to one
i felt the normal school stopped taught new things in Middle School, all after that i have learned by myself, in highschool the teachers only taught the same stuffs of middle school.
well i actually was in a High-level Primary, but 2 other kids were very arrogant, still it doesn't mean a gifted school makes you arrogant, I met one of my best's friends in this school, and the others were really nice with me, i really felt very comfortable in this school
I only got invited to two parties after the age of 13, and the only "explanation" I got for this social exclusion was that I was too "academic", whatever that meant.
Probably means you weren't as stupid as they were. (*shrugs*)