Were you ever in the GATE Program as a child?

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The GATE program was a way to remove energetic, smart, and potentially disobedient kids from the class room, gaslight parents into sabotaging their own kids, and gas up shitty midwit karen teachers into sabotaging those same kids into full compliance or full delinquency. It was the carrot model versus stick "no child left behind" angle of attack to subvert any potential middle class revolt against the upper classes. The school to prison pipeline works in a different way (different race) with similar results. Schools are mandatory society engagement (dog) training facilities and GATE keeping for population control. That's why any large enough city state or government will have either a state religion or school system.

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Second Alter Ego dijo:
Ah, a fellow gifted-kid-turned-homeless-alcoholic. How do you do. I wonder how many of us ended up down a similar path.
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Teaching gifted kids remains one of the least understood concepts in education. Teaching anyone who falls in the middle ~80% of the intelligence bell curve is easy -- almost anyone can be trained to do it. Teaching special ed / remedial classes / learning disabilities / whatever they call it today is harder to do, but at least there's a good general consensus on how to do it effectively. But teaching that top ~10% is much more difficult.

For that group, everything intellectual comes easily -- at least at first -- things just make sense. They barely need to try throughout much of their academic careers. If they're not being challenged, then they don't develop study skills the way that others their age are. Eventually, they get to the academic levels where they can't just intuit their way through and begin struggling. And because they've been so academically successful to this point, the expectations are set very high. The sudden drop-off in performance is often inaccurately attributed to laziness or "not applying themselves" when in reality they were never given the tools necessary to learn how to learn.
And that's not even addressing the emotional toll that all this takes on the gifted student.

I don't have the answers, but I don't work in education. I hope that someone who studies educational paradigms and developmental psychology is working on it, but based on the quantity of gifted kids who have struggled later in life who I've encountered, I'm not so sure that much progress is being made.
 
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