<div dir="ltr">Well said, Margaret! <div><br></div><div style>Sandra :-)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:42 AM, (Mary Collier) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:redfoxmary@aol.com" target="_blank">redfoxmary@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Thank you, Margaret, for saying what I wanted to say, but you did it so well. I also was bothered with the "success" and intelligence relationship and how "success" is defined. Many "successful" people also end up in prison. In the military there was a saying "rank times IQ is equal to a constant" which was a sad/humorous way of saying, the more intelligent you were, the less likely you were to achieve higher rank.</div>
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From: Margaret DeLacy <<a href="mailto:margaretdelacy@comcast.net" target="_blank">margaretdelacy@comcast.net</a>><br>
To: Ohiogift <<a href="mailto:Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>><br>
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Subject: [Ohiogift] ungiftedness<br>
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>challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult
success
Speaking just for myself, I am frustrated when I see comments about how "gifted
programs" have failed if their graduates turn out to be "ordinary" and don't
turn out to be distinguished or "successful" by some outside standard. I want
to grab these authors by the lapels and scream "that's just the point!" I
believe that most parents of children with physical disabilities or intellectual
disabilities want their children to have as normal a life as possible. That is
just what I want for my own children. I don't expect my children to become
"great". I just want them to survive school with their spirits mostly intact.
There are indeed many paths to greatness. Many great men and women had terrible
childhoods, but I didn't abuse my own children in the hope that some day they
would write a best-selling memoir about it. Similarly, I didn't want to see my
children abused in school, even if it turned them into distinguished individuals
down the road.
That is one of the reasons I am uncomfortable with the new NAGC definition of
giftedness. It seems to be about what society wants from gifted children. I am
more interested in seeing them engaged in school, happy in their relationships
and satisfied with their eventual occupations, however humble. Maybe Kaufmann
has the same point of view--I will read the book (eventually) and find out. But
I reject the claim that we should identify gifted students in order to predict
adult success. We should identify gifted students to find those for whom
regular classroom instruction is inappropriate so the level and pace of
instruction can be modified and they don't go crazy sitting in class.
The founding fathers didn't write about life, liberty and success. They wrote
about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Why should we want less for
our children?
In any case, thank you Art for letting me know about the book.
Margaret
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