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May 20, 2009 at 7:10 AM #403537May 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM #402904
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ParticipantThanks Piggs –
My son was just identified GATE and just missed Seminar if you can believe the raven percentile. (I knew he was smart, but didn’t know it was that close.) Our school, Curie Elementary, is top ranked… but we’ve had a few ‘bad fits’ with teachers – twice my older son has had teachers who didn’t ‘get’ him and held him back to the class level in math and science. The result was a lot of boredom and resentment… not something I want going forward. I’m hoping 3rd grade will be a better experience because at least he’ll have a teacher that has some training in GATE kids. In theory, he won’t be held back to the grade level in the subjects he’s good at. I think our situation was teacher specific because friends’ kids, who had different teachers, did not have the same teacher, and their kids were encouraged to move to their level in the various subjects they were strong in.
(SDUSD requires GATE certification for GATE cluster teachers – but since the GATE program doesn’t start till the 3rd grade…)
I have a good friend who’s kids are, I’m certain, seminar level. She was a product of seminar and her husband is also off-the-charts smart. They’re moving back sunny San Diego next year. I was trying to figure out what advice/experience I could glean from the Piggs here about school districts for exceptional kids.
It’s not in my future to do private schools – not unless I give up the idea of retirement. I do supplement educational stuff after school – my sister is a teacher who gives me materials to work with.
May 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM #403155UCGal
ParticipantThanks Piggs –
My son was just identified GATE and just missed Seminar if you can believe the raven percentile. (I knew he was smart, but didn’t know it was that close.) Our school, Curie Elementary, is top ranked… but we’ve had a few ‘bad fits’ with teachers – twice my older son has had teachers who didn’t ‘get’ him and held him back to the class level in math and science. The result was a lot of boredom and resentment… not something I want going forward. I’m hoping 3rd grade will be a better experience because at least he’ll have a teacher that has some training in GATE kids. In theory, he won’t be held back to the grade level in the subjects he’s good at. I think our situation was teacher specific because friends’ kids, who had different teachers, did not have the same teacher, and their kids were encouraged to move to their level in the various subjects they were strong in.
(SDUSD requires GATE certification for GATE cluster teachers – but since the GATE program doesn’t start till the 3rd grade…)
I have a good friend who’s kids are, I’m certain, seminar level. She was a product of seminar and her husband is also off-the-charts smart. They’re moving back sunny San Diego next year. I was trying to figure out what advice/experience I could glean from the Piggs here about school districts for exceptional kids.
It’s not in my future to do private schools – not unless I give up the idea of retirement. I do supplement educational stuff after school – my sister is a teacher who gives me materials to work with.
May 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM #403390UCGal
ParticipantThanks Piggs –
My son was just identified GATE and just missed Seminar if you can believe the raven percentile. (I knew he was smart, but didn’t know it was that close.) Our school, Curie Elementary, is top ranked… but we’ve had a few ‘bad fits’ with teachers – twice my older son has had teachers who didn’t ‘get’ him and held him back to the class level in math and science. The result was a lot of boredom and resentment… not something I want going forward. I’m hoping 3rd grade will be a better experience because at least he’ll have a teacher that has some training in GATE kids. In theory, he won’t be held back to the grade level in the subjects he’s good at. I think our situation was teacher specific because friends’ kids, who had different teachers, did not have the same teacher, and their kids were encouraged to move to their level in the various subjects they were strong in.
(SDUSD requires GATE certification for GATE cluster teachers – but since the GATE program doesn’t start till the 3rd grade…)
I have a good friend who’s kids are, I’m certain, seminar level. She was a product of seminar and her husband is also off-the-charts smart. They’re moving back sunny San Diego next year. I was trying to figure out what advice/experience I could glean from the Piggs here about school districts for exceptional kids.
It’s not in my future to do private schools – not unless I give up the idea of retirement. I do supplement educational stuff after school – my sister is a teacher who gives me materials to work with.
May 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM #403451UCGal
ParticipantThanks Piggs –
My son was just identified GATE and just missed Seminar if you can believe the raven percentile. (I knew he was smart, but didn’t know it was that close.) Our school, Curie Elementary, is top ranked… but we’ve had a few ‘bad fits’ with teachers – twice my older son has had teachers who didn’t ‘get’ him and held him back to the class level in math and science. The result was a lot of boredom and resentment… not something I want going forward. I’m hoping 3rd grade will be a better experience because at least he’ll have a teacher that has some training in GATE kids. In theory, he won’t be held back to the grade level in the subjects he’s good at. I think our situation was teacher specific because friends’ kids, who had different teachers, did not have the same teacher, and their kids were encouraged to move to their level in the various subjects they were strong in.
(SDUSD requires GATE certification for GATE cluster teachers – but since the GATE program doesn’t start till the 3rd grade…)
I have a good friend who’s kids are, I’m certain, seminar level. She was a product of seminar and her husband is also off-the-charts smart. They’re moving back sunny San Diego next year. I was trying to figure out what advice/experience I could glean from the Piggs here about school districts for exceptional kids.
It’s not in my future to do private schools – not unless I give up the idea of retirement. I do supplement educational stuff after school – my sister is a teacher who gives me materials to work with.
May 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM #403602UCGal
ParticipantThanks Piggs –
My son was just identified GATE and just missed Seminar if you can believe the raven percentile. (I knew he was smart, but didn’t know it was that close.) Our school, Curie Elementary, is top ranked… but we’ve had a few ‘bad fits’ with teachers – twice my older son has had teachers who didn’t ‘get’ him and held him back to the class level in math and science. The result was a lot of boredom and resentment… not something I want going forward. I’m hoping 3rd grade will be a better experience because at least he’ll have a teacher that has some training in GATE kids. In theory, he won’t be held back to the grade level in the subjects he’s good at. I think our situation was teacher specific because friends’ kids, who had different teachers, did not have the same teacher, and their kids were encouraged to move to their level in the various subjects they were strong in.
(SDUSD requires GATE certification for GATE cluster teachers – but since the GATE program doesn’t start till the 3rd grade…)
I have a good friend who’s kids are, I’m certain, seminar level. She was a product of seminar and her husband is also off-the-charts smart. They’re moving back sunny San Diego next year. I was trying to figure out what advice/experience I could glean from the Piggs here about school districts for exceptional kids.
It’s not in my future to do private schools – not unless I give up the idea of retirement. I do supplement educational stuff after school – my sister is a teacher who gives me materials to work with.
May 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM #402944CBad
ParticipantCarlsbad has a GATE program and tests in 2nd grade. My daughter is in 2nd and just tested into it. It doesn’t really matter though because I homeschool my kids. But I had her tested as a back up plan in case she ever does go into Carlsbad’s public schools. My kids go to Carlsbad’s homeschool program. They physically go into school 2 days a week there and also do field trips, oral presentations, and standardized testing with that group of kids. The homeschool class is 95% GATE students and the teacher does classroom projects accordingly.
Personally I don’t think GATE is that big of a deal. I’m a product of GATE from Orange County schools. For some reason I was tested in Kindergarten (have never heard of anyone else who was tested in K). I was pulled out of class with one other kid in 2nd grade 2 days a week (which by the way, I hated that, I didn’t like being singled or I guess doubled out) to join the 3rd grade GATE class. 3rd grade started full time GATE classes and some of my friends were in the class so I was happy. I would say the only benefit of GATE is that you don’t wait around in class for others to catch up. But as an adult who has lived in the real world, you live and work with people of various levels of intelligence and hopefully come to the realization that intelligence comes in many forms and is not the only factor that makes a person someone you want to be around.
May 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM #403195CBad
ParticipantCarlsbad has a GATE program and tests in 2nd grade. My daughter is in 2nd and just tested into it. It doesn’t really matter though because I homeschool my kids. But I had her tested as a back up plan in case she ever does go into Carlsbad’s public schools. My kids go to Carlsbad’s homeschool program. They physically go into school 2 days a week there and also do field trips, oral presentations, and standardized testing with that group of kids. The homeschool class is 95% GATE students and the teacher does classroom projects accordingly.
Personally I don’t think GATE is that big of a deal. I’m a product of GATE from Orange County schools. For some reason I was tested in Kindergarten (have never heard of anyone else who was tested in K). I was pulled out of class with one other kid in 2nd grade 2 days a week (which by the way, I hated that, I didn’t like being singled or I guess doubled out) to join the 3rd grade GATE class. 3rd grade started full time GATE classes and some of my friends were in the class so I was happy. I would say the only benefit of GATE is that you don’t wait around in class for others to catch up. But as an adult who has lived in the real world, you live and work with people of various levels of intelligence and hopefully come to the realization that intelligence comes in many forms and is not the only factor that makes a person someone you want to be around.
May 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM #403430CBad
ParticipantCarlsbad has a GATE program and tests in 2nd grade. My daughter is in 2nd and just tested into it. It doesn’t really matter though because I homeschool my kids. But I had her tested as a back up plan in case she ever does go into Carlsbad’s public schools. My kids go to Carlsbad’s homeschool program. They physically go into school 2 days a week there and also do field trips, oral presentations, and standardized testing with that group of kids. The homeschool class is 95% GATE students and the teacher does classroom projects accordingly.
Personally I don’t think GATE is that big of a deal. I’m a product of GATE from Orange County schools. For some reason I was tested in Kindergarten (have never heard of anyone else who was tested in K). I was pulled out of class with one other kid in 2nd grade 2 days a week (which by the way, I hated that, I didn’t like being singled or I guess doubled out) to join the 3rd grade GATE class. 3rd grade started full time GATE classes and some of my friends were in the class so I was happy. I would say the only benefit of GATE is that you don’t wait around in class for others to catch up. But as an adult who has lived in the real world, you live and work with people of various levels of intelligence and hopefully come to the realization that intelligence comes in many forms and is not the only factor that makes a person someone you want to be around.
May 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM #403491CBad
ParticipantCarlsbad has a GATE program and tests in 2nd grade. My daughter is in 2nd and just tested into it. It doesn’t really matter though because I homeschool my kids. But I had her tested as a back up plan in case she ever does go into Carlsbad’s public schools. My kids go to Carlsbad’s homeschool program. They physically go into school 2 days a week there and also do field trips, oral presentations, and standardized testing with that group of kids. The homeschool class is 95% GATE students and the teacher does classroom projects accordingly.
Personally I don’t think GATE is that big of a deal. I’m a product of GATE from Orange County schools. For some reason I was tested in Kindergarten (have never heard of anyone else who was tested in K). I was pulled out of class with one other kid in 2nd grade 2 days a week (which by the way, I hated that, I didn’t like being singled or I guess doubled out) to join the 3rd grade GATE class. 3rd grade started full time GATE classes and some of my friends were in the class so I was happy. I would say the only benefit of GATE is that you don’t wait around in class for others to catch up. But as an adult who has lived in the real world, you live and work with people of various levels of intelligence and hopefully come to the realization that intelligence comes in many forms and is not the only factor that makes a person someone you want to be around.
May 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM #403642CBad
ParticipantCarlsbad has a GATE program and tests in 2nd grade. My daughter is in 2nd and just tested into it. It doesn’t really matter though because I homeschool my kids. But I had her tested as a back up plan in case she ever does go into Carlsbad’s public schools. My kids go to Carlsbad’s homeschool program. They physically go into school 2 days a week there and also do field trips, oral presentations, and standardized testing with that group of kids. The homeschool class is 95% GATE students and the teacher does classroom projects accordingly.
Personally I don’t think GATE is that big of a deal. I’m a product of GATE from Orange County schools. For some reason I was tested in Kindergarten (have never heard of anyone else who was tested in K). I was pulled out of class with one other kid in 2nd grade 2 days a week (which by the way, I hated that, I didn’t like being singled or I guess doubled out) to join the 3rd grade GATE class. 3rd grade started full time GATE classes and some of my friends were in the class so I was happy. I would say the only benefit of GATE is that you don’t wait around in class for others to catch up. But as an adult who has lived in the real world, you live and work with people of various levels of intelligence and hopefully come to the realization that intelligence comes in many forms and is not the only factor that makes a person someone you want to be around.
May 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM #402972Veritas
ParticipantI would like to see a test for common sense.
May 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM #403224Veritas
ParticipantI would like to see a test for common sense.
May 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM #403458Veritas
ParticipantI would like to see a test for common sense.
May 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM #403520Veritas
ParticipantI would like to see a test for common sense.
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