Oh yeah the expectations put on those kids is so fucked.
I really disagree with whole concept of “gifted” in the first place because it implies that academic intelligence is the only “real” intelligence and that people all learn the same way or they’re just stupid.
It’s a super narrow worldview that actively harms kids in and out of the program.
Being gifted somehow made adults think I couldn’t be neurodivergent. So many wasted years of no treatment and misery.
Oh yeah the expectations put on those kids is so fucked.
I really disagree with whole concept of “gifted” in the first place because it implies that academic intelligence is the only “real” intelligence and that people all learn the same way or they’re just stupid.
It’s a super narrow worldview that actively harms kids in and out of the program.