Instead of starting threads taking the piss out of G&T children why don't you all just...

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stop it. It's pathetic.

Thanks.

Mabanan I not convinced that Obama or Bill Gates are any cleverer than many on these boards to be honest.

Also it is only England & Wales that use the old Gifted and Talented label, we don't in Scotland for example. Nor USA, NZ, Oz, Candad, Mainland Europe, Eire place where lost of other posters live.

What do do in Scotland however is place children on Staged Intervention when they need additional support at school - that support may be bacause the child is struggling (for what ever reason) or at the other end flying through the school work.

Those at the top end of the achievement curve tend to also where necessary get addtional support with social skills and behavioural norms.

Special needs no, additional support needed yes.

ooh, how I've missed you Kerrymum

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It was ME!

Christ, this is the first time I've looked in on the G&T board, and that was only because my ds came home with a letter saying he was on it in 3 subjects, and I thought I might find some clue as to what this meant for him and if it would change his usual lessons.

I'm immensely proud of my son for being on the list, I didn'thave a clue he would be on it. I'm just as proud of him for the fact that he has managed to master a technique to overcome his stammer, and for the fact that he is a really lovely, polite kid with a wicked sense of humour. In fact, I'm proud of him full stop. As we all are of our kids, whether they are bright, SN, whatever.

Really shocked at the level of aggressiveness on this thread, suffice to say I'll not be coming on it again!!!

Clearly I need additional support with spelling and probably grammar.

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and there's this one.

[aims parsnip]

Fallenmadonna - quite. On the one child family threads, abuse was directed at the children. On dragonbutter's thread about playing our children's musical instruments, there was no abuse aimed at anyone. We were (I thought) mocking our musical pretensions and the outlets for them - the only people at whom we were laughing were ourselves.

So what's the support needed for? I have many who would be supposedly G&T in my time who have been very well adjusted socially, capable of taking themselves off to a library etc and who have gone one to live happy, well-fulfilled lives.

Equally I have met people who are not G&T, nor SN with social problems. If it's social skills that make the difference then surely we should be providing that to whoever needs it?

I don't think needed help with social skills and behavioural norms is confined to those who are G&T, or even that common amongst the G&T tbh.

Prime example of WHAT??????

she means we drove you away with our blunt grunty peasant pitchforks ladymariner

just about all the problems suffered by clever children are due to being labelled as 'gifted', which makes them feel different, and because of the pressure of high expectations from parents dazzled by the label. The rest are probably because a proportion of highly intelligent kids will be autistic, like Alan Turing, the WWII code-breaking genius, who didn't kill himself because he was clever, but because he was persecuted for being gay and because he had Aspergers, which almost certainly made it harder to cope.

AFAIK, the G&T programme is also run in OZ and USA amongst others.

I think there is a lot of also, hence the arguments and nastiness.

I do think that having parents who think the sun shines out of your arse constitutes a serious social impairment

No, I'll just lurk with interest and get my incredibly bright gifted ds to explain it all to me.........

I'm joking, before I get a pitchfork in the back of the head!!

That's the spirit

I don't think there's much . A lot of the people who laugh have been to Oxbridge themselves so would presumably have been classified as G&T had such a thing existed in their day. Other's have children who are G&T - they just don't tell anyone

Parents like this are not just on the G&T section Greensleeves. They are all over!