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"Gifted" programs are so fucked up.
They separate kids out for being "smart", put them on a pedestal, endlessly gas them up with wildly unrealistic expectations and then only teach them how to be good students at the expense of all social development.
All these kids go into the world thinking that being good at math or memorization is 95% of what it takes to be successful when in reality it's like 10% intellect and 90% social ability.
The worst part is that these kids usually aren't even extra smart, they just have more involved parents.
It always ends up that the kid with infinite potential lives up to none of it and has a massive ego complex because they got gaslit into believing their parents pipedreams were realistic and that it's their fault for not living up to them.
Edit: It's really funny all the former gifted kids are taking this as a personal attack.
Ehhh, to each their own. I was in those classes, fully separated streams. No idea why you'd assume having a more interesting class would nix social development. (You can't learn to socialize if the teacher doesn't have to slow down?)
Fully wide range of outcomes but a lot of the kids with the potential went and realized it. Sure, not all of us did but from my small circle one's on the second highest court in Canada, one's set up a reasonably famous company, one's a cardiac surgeon etc.
When do you talk to to other kids if not during class? Lunch was for study group, where we didn't talk, and we didn't get free periods or anything because it was just more class.
Wild, maybe Canada does ours differently? I was in 2 different programs over the years but we still had lunch, free blocks and still shot the shit a bunch in class. And then sports and other extra curriculars too.
Yeah, it sounds like my school took it a lot more seriously. There was always this cloud of "If you fuck this up, you'll be one of the poors forever, so don't get out of line" hanging over us.
That, and going to the library to study didn't cost as much as extra-curriculars.