[Ohiogift] "20 reasons it's horrible to grow up 'gifted'"

[Briercheck, Vickie]

My take is that most of this is true and much of it would have happened to
the people who were quoted with or without the label.  I also believe that
with proper support from teachers, parents and others who know what gifted
does or doesn't mean, much of the negativity could have been avoided.  I
actually hurt for the author and others who were quoted.   Unfortunately,
that is not how the general public will see this.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:05 PM, (Mary Collier) via Ohiogift <
ohiogift at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Charlie,
> I guess I have some of the same concerns Art does in that the article does
> little to educate the public, or the students themselves, about how a more
> consistent and better education program K-16 might yield better results for
> gifted students, families, and society.  One student mentioned the
> transition to high school was a problem.  There were other complaints
> directly related to the school environment.  It would be interesting to
> read a similar article about the extracurriculars and being a gifted
> singer, athlete, dancer, or Miss Popularity.  Do they have gripes, too?
> There was a photo adjacent to the article about how extracurriculars
> sometimes become a task, rather than a fun activity.  I think the school
> environment needs to change in many ways instead of  beating the 50s and
> 60s model of education to death.  When we have made education compulsory,
> there is a responsibility to design education programs better for all types
> of students, including gifted students, instead of catering to pockets of
> students, grouping all students by ages, and dumbing many of them down from
> their potential.
>
> Mary Collier
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Toland <charlie.toland at gmail.com>
> To: Art Snyder <artsnyder44 at cs.com>
> Cc: Ohiogift <Ohiogift at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Tue, Mar 31, 2015 12:21 pm
> Subject: Re: [Ohiogift] "20 reasons it's horrible to grow up 'gifted'"
>
>   Art,
>
>  Your criticizing the author here, but all he has done is choose twenty
> quotes from former gifted students. All of these quotes should sound very
> familiar to anyone working with gifted kids. The pain and the damage from
> the "gifted" label are real.  While all of these quotes address getting
> labelled as "gifted," many of them discuss issues with parents, and none
> complain about gifted programs in particular.
>
>  This isn't the first time that an education professional on this list
> has complained about negative comments from students.
>
>  While students are subject to massive amounts of testing (even though
> there is little concept of validating results in advance) little thought
> given to actually listening to what students have to say, let alone seeking
> out their opinions in a systematic way (with a few exceptions such as
> teacher evaluations at the university level.)
>
>  Thanks,
>  Charlie Toland
>
>
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>
>  On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Art Snyder via Ohiogift <
> ohiogift at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>>    Friends:
>>
>>  It's bad enough getting respect and support for gifted services for our
>> wealth of gifted students, but a business publication is making things
>> worse. From last week's edition of *Business Insider* comes this story
>> headline:
>>
>> *20 reasons it's horrible to grow up 'gifted'*
>>  Link*: *
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/why-its-horrible-to-grow-up-gifted-2015-3
>>
>>  Perhaps the author needs a better education regarding the challenges
>> facing these students and their families and teachers.
>>
>>  Best wishes,
>>  Art Snyder
>>  artsnyder44 at cs.com
>>
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Vickie Briercheck
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 Pfeiffer Intermediate School
4315 13th Street SW
Massillon, OH  44646
330-478-6163 ext 4002

If we are to have genius, we must put up with the inconvenience of genius,
a thing the world will never do; it wants geniuses but would like them to
be just like other people.
George Moore

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