I wasn't a gifted kid by any stretch of the imagination, but I've definitely encountered people like this in real life as it relates to autism.

Whew! Us scheming neurodivergents sure had it easy amirite?

Good to see this shit gets taken down quickly.

I let my curiosity get the better of me. Not looking at the removed comments next time.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Copying what I said elsewhere

    Look, there's all sorts of equity issues around who gets labeled as gifted, but at its core gifted and talented education is a form of special education. In the same way that it's inappropriate to not provide supports or accommodations for someone who has a learning disability, it's also inappropriate to to teach the exact same material in the exact same way to a student who is ahead of their peers.

    A core principle of modern education is that students should be engaging with material and working on skills that they can't do alone but are capable of doing with support, with the goal that they then master it and are able to do it independently. Because that zone is different for everyone, sometimes wildly so, you have to differentiate in some way.