Comments | liz_gregory: can someone find one for me?

liz_gregory

can someone find one for me?

Jan 29, 2009 20:34

I'd like to find an Austin-area school with a GT program like this one that I grew up in. I'd be perfectly happy to send Peter to public school where the GT program didn't suck quite so badly as Austin ISD's. *sigh*

yes, cifarelli , this is all your fault.

peter, gt, school

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cifarelli January 30 2009, 02:51:01 UTC

The magnet schools for middle and high school at least used to be good. But I don't know anything at all about GT at the elementary school level. When I was there (LONG AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY) we just had more advanced reading groups, etc. I was bored silly in kindergarten. I remember doing LOMS (involved reading simple words like 'cat' off an easel-sized flip-book) in class and I always raised my hand because I always knew the answer, but the teacher wouldn't call on me because she knew I knew the answer and she wanted the other kids to learn. I remember giving the other kids a hard time when we would play school and one of the other kids was playing the teacher and 'reading' the class a book. They would just make up a story to go along with the pictures, and I kept correcting them and telling them they weren't really reading and tell them what the page actually said. Didn't make me very popular. I also remember my mom had to request special permission for me (I don't remember from whom...I think it had to go over the ( ... )

liz_gregory January 30 2009, 02:59:36 UTC

If you check out the Spring ISD page, they keep everyone with their age-level peers. That's the amazingly wonderful part about the Tier IV program. There are ~20-40 kids in each grade for either math or language arts (some in both) who are in those classes with only each other and are taught at their social and emotional level on material that is at their cognitive level. Science and Social Studies are mixed with the rest of the grade level, so you aren't with the same small group of kids all the time. I WANTS this, my preciousssss!

Bambified krikwennavd February 1 2009, 02:41:34 UTC

You're twitterpated? As in you're in love like the cartoon animals were in the Springtime?(Child version of "in heat?") Is this a far-too-public expression of a Discovery Channel moment?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d8rT5tnTN8&feature=related

Re: Bambified liz_gregory February 1 2009, 02:43:33 UTC

I blame the hormones

Re: Bambified krikwennavd February 1 2009, 02:47:22 UTC

Did you WATCH that video? I haven't seen Bambi since I was a kid. Man, did they make a twisted little cartoon. The music fits...

Re: Bambified liz_gregory February 1 2009, 02:52:24 UTC

Bambi is one of Peter's favorites... I've seen that part a few times in the past few weeks.