I’m sorry, but can someone help me understand the intense interest in GATE programs?
I never was selected for GATE when I was a kid…Ok truthfully teachers thought I was a dipshit when I was young, because I couldn’t even get past the 70% mark on the standardized Iowa tests in first few years in school. And I had a surfer dude honors math teacher (who I couldn’t understand his AmericanEnglish with all the “dude” “whoa” and “cool” interjections)tell me I shouldn’t be an enginerd.
So is this a secret society or holy grail that parents try to get their kids to achieve because their kids are smart, besides having nostalgia 30-40-50 years later on a real estate blog about once being in a gifted program?
What do you learn in gate versus non-gate versus what you could learn just by sending your kid to an enrichment program or two…
