Re: "Education" System, was Re: [SG] HAMR

John Atkinson wrote:

> > >Do you have any idea how much I came to loathe that
> > >particular phrase?
> >
> > *raising hand*
> > Funny, adults thought they were complimenting - not
> > stigmatizing - us.
>
>I have a sneaking suspicion that 75% of this list
>either was stuck with that label, or would have been
>had it been in vouge in the time/place when they went
>to grade school.

I suspect that 75% is conservative.

>But at any rate, I soon discovered that "gifted" is
>generally teacher-speak for "I don't know what the
>hell to do with him!"

Yeah, that's the core of it.  Which is why some of us should become
teachers 
ourselves.

3B^2

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