White people love “gifted” children, do you know why? Because an astounding 100% of their kids are gifted! Isn’t that amazing?
I’m pretty sure the last non-gifted white child was born in 1962 in Reseda, CA. Since then, it’s been a pretty sweet run.
The way it works is that white kids that are actually smart are quickly identified as “gifted” and take special classes and eventually end up in college and then law school or med school.
But wait, aren’t there white people who aren’t doctors or lawyers, or even all that smart?
Well, here is another one of those awesome white person win-win situations.
Because if a white kid gets crappy grades and can’t seem to ever do anything right in school, they are still gifted! How you ask? They are just TOO smart for school. They are too creative, too advanced to care about the trivial minutiae of the day to day operations of school.
Eventually they will show their creativity in their elaborate constructions of bongs and intimate knowledge different kinds of mushrooms and hash.
This is important if you ever find yourself needing to gain white person acceptance. If you see their kid playing peacefully, you say “oh, he/she seems very focused, are they in a gifted program?” at which point the parent will say “yes.” Or if the kid is lighting a dog on fire while screaming at their mother, you say “my he/she is a creative one. Is he/she gifted?” To which the parent will reply “oh, yes, he’s too creative and smart for school. We just don’t know what to do.” Either situation will put a white person in a better mood and make them like you more.
But NEVER under any circumstance imply that their child is less than a genius. The idea that something could come from them and be less than greatness is too much for them to bear.
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Gifted children yes, but at the same time making it perfectly clear that their children are in no way gifted based on hard work or genetic factors but due to the oppression of other people. Very important to remember…………..
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what about poor whites? i’m pretty sure we never got the whole gifted thing…
in fact, most of this blog seems to be about yuppie, middle- to upper- class whites.
I’ve banged out 5 gifted children in my younger years–all from–I’m looking to get preggers again so I can contributed a 6th genius to the world!!….Well, I’m off to the local bar–wish me luck!
I’ve banged out 5 gifted children in my younger years–all from different fathers–I’m looking to get preggers again so I can contributed a 6th genius to the world!!….Well, I’m off to the local bar–wish me luck!
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Because if a white kid gets crappy grades and can’t seem to ever do anything right in school, they are still gifted! How you ask? They are just TOO smart for school. They are too creative, too advanced to care about the trivial minutiae of the day to day operations of school.
Don’t forget to mention doctor shopping until you find the one that’ll diagnose junior with ADD, thus earning him double-time on all exams. Remember, if a White Child isn’t excelling, it’s because he’s sick, not because he just isn’t excellent.
I blame women (I guess white women) for this one. Most of the ills of the world can be tracked to female vanity.
I am a teacher and white people use this one to segregate their children from the less desirable children of color. It is really how amazing how many gifted white children there are when it means that your child can go into a special class set up for gifted children.
“With so many special kids it makes you wonder how we get so many average adults.”
I can’t remember who said it, but if it was you claim it.
this one guy my parents knew said his second grade kid was failing his tests on purpose because he was getting too bored with the work.
I was considered “gifted” until I was later found to be “emotionally handicapped”. That pretty much evened things out, though I did become “artistically inclined” in the process.
My little boy Hank is a complete retard.
im a “gifted” kid with “add”(and ive never got double the time on my exam). the only thing i ever used it for was a ticket out of a crappy school. and about no color in the gifted program, please, i guess asian is the new white? come on people, if someone calls you smart and offeres you any benefits to make school less suck, regardless of weather or not its true, would you take it?
youd have to be “gifted” not to.
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Back in the Seventies when they put me in one, they gave us an IQ test you had to get 130 or better on. I guess they’ve changed the rules. Hippies are awesome.
I’m white and I hate all children. Let’s party.
“White people love “gifted” children, do you know why? Because an astounding 100% of their kids are gifted! Isn’t that amazing?”
has to be one of the funniest lines in the blogosphere!
I know a couple of people like that but honestly they usually only have one kid like that and then another with “problems” that they don’t always pass off as gifted.
the only “gifted” I want my kids to be is to be smart enough to qualify for some free college tuition. that’s a “gift” a parent can appreciate.
Aside from the fact that I have no desire to have children of my own, what is worse than being around a bunch of screamers, is also having their parents tell me how special and bright they are while their rugrats are picking their noses and demanding a piece of candy or they’ll defiantly poop their pants……what a genius!
I feel like such a sucker for struggling to pass the “enriched” and “excelled” classes now with all my fellow suburban pseudo-intellectuals . I should have stayed in the regular classes. I would have had a higher GPA and not have felt so inadequate.
I wish there was a time machine I could get into, so I could go have a talk with the 1988 version of myself.
Dang it.
To Mike: You still need a 130 IQ to technically be considered gifted, but there’s a little thing called ‘private testing’ where parents can pay for a few extra IQ points to be added onto their children’s scores.
I don’t know how much the ‘awesome hippies’ take part in that. They send their kids to alternative schools with no grades. Duh.
I’ve gone to an all gifted school since I was in second grade, and it’s true, atleast 85% of us are white and many of us have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. But I’d say it’s more of a rich parent trend, not a general white person trend. Most of the ‘ethnic’ kids at my school are fucking loaded, just like most of the white kids. It just happens that are a lot more snobby white people out there incessantly bragging about their kids.
I was in the gifted education program during most of my elementary school years in the mid-to-late 1970s, with a professionally tested IQ of 140, yet I later dropped out of Middle School (back when it was still called “Junior High School”) at age 13, and became a convicted felon, habitual drug user, and right-wing anarchist. It just goes to show that its not always a choice between smart kids who do well in school, and dumb kids who don’t. Some smart kids really just don’t do well in the intellectually stultifying environment of the American system of public education, where one is rewarded more for completing a seemingly endless series of mindless busy work assignments and otherwise obeying the rules without question, than for learning the material, innovation, just plain reacting intelligently to the supposedly educational experience, etc.
Never-the-less, despite how boring, repetitive, and essentially non-educational going to school was for me, I probably would have kept going, were it possible for smart, nerdy, shy kids to have friends back then. These days, it seems like schools are filled with all sorts of little cliques made up primarily of people who are outside the mainstream. Back in the 80s, the mainstream was all there was. If you weren’t a part of it, everyone hated you. There were other people who weren’t part of the mainstream either, but we were all such alienated, atomized individuals floating helplessly in a sea of constant, brutal hostility and contempt, that it simply never occured to any of us to hang out with each other and be our own group of friends.
But on the plus side, at least we weren’t whiney, faggoty-assed little “emo” twerps. Even if I die in prison one day, they’ll never be able to take that away from me.
*Rich* white folks have gifted children. Poor white folks have uppity brats who need to learn their place.
I grew up in a white trash family. Every one of us kids ended up in a classroom for the mentally retarded when we started in school. None of us ever stayed in the classroom we started in because the teachers knew we didn’t belong there.
How do I know this is true? My oldest sister got access to our school records. Funny thing was, none of the IQ tests used to track us into that class were in our records.
Oh man. The gifted kids.
I was in the G&T (gifted and talented) program until I got to high school, because then I stopped giving a shit. I never understood WHY I was there, until my mother told me that some second grade teacher found me reading some OMFG ADVANCED book (like Charles Dickens), threw me into tests that proved that I did indeed have a higher reading level than your average bear, and tossed me into classes where the other G&T kids looked down on the normal kids.
Fuck that. G&T classes involved way more homework, snooty little twats that suffered from localised elitism, and being forced to read the same ol’ drivel that the normal kids read, except at a much faster rate.
They were not special. I was not special.High school came around and I decided not to sign back up. Because of this, I’m sure, I walked away with a relatively decent GPA, got to skip tons of school and had way more free time as a result.
I taught G&T kids for several years and they all seemed like refugees from Orwell or Dickens, nice kids but fleeing from God-knows-what sorts of domestic and parental horrors. They particularly liked re-enacting the Punic Wars, re-inventing the telescope, and listening to a Buddhist priest, but they never seemed to want to go home. Must be a lesson there somewhere. I thought they were all lost and wonderful; no idea how they came to be called either G or T. Every one of them was white except my kids, who were rather stylishly mocha.
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“I was considered “gifted” until I was later found to be “emotionally handicapped”. That pretty much evened things out, though I did become “artistically inclined” in the process.”
ME TOO! lolol. I was a clever enough, I suppose, but was a terrible student who was ditching school as much as possible from 6th grade on. my dad skipped two grades as a kid, so they skipped ME two grades and I ended up being sent back to do it again. hahahaa. oh well.
also, love the “stylishly mocha” comment. we had a stylishly mocha girl in our school who had amazing green eyes!
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what about poor whites? i’m pretty sure we never got the whole gifted thing…
in fact, most of this blog seems to be about yuppie, middle- to upper- class whites.
Quit trying to limit this hilarious a priori racist screed with your critical thinking. You’re undoubtedly white.
Yeah, school of 3000 students, 40+% black, and “Gifted/Talented” track was like 2% black.
But also, to those in this thread that want to get all anti-intellectual: G/T classes were not a waste of time, at least at my former high school. Elitist? Absolutely. Challenging and good college/post-college prep? Yes, that too. I took one “regular” class during high school because I thought it was worth a reduced work load — now that was an embarrassing, frustrating waste of time. (Though I did have fun talking to classmates I’d literally never met before.)
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I’m white.
I love travel. I love Arrested Development. I love marijuana and bicycles and Mos Def and recycling and… a lot of stuff that other white people like.
I do NOT like gifted children. In fact, I do not like children at all.
White people like not having children.
(I also do not like Sarah Silverman, but that is neither here nor there.)
I guess asians are “white” now. This blog is just an elaborate exercise in trolling…
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Most of us realize our kids aren’t gifted, we’re just looking for a way to get our kids out of the general ed classroom where they might be influenced by all the loser kids. That should explain to you why ANY reason is a good enough one to call our ids gifted and get them into the program. The reason we ask each other about whether our kids are in the gifted program is to accertain whether or not they are our peers who are with the program and know the routine.
Nope, now all the gifted programs are filled with asian kids. There’s barely any room for white kids.
gifted is a misnomer
i was a “gifted” kid, and let me tell you there was nothing given about it, i drove myself insane to get those marks, not that i had any friends or outdoor activities to distract me
and now i am depressed and failing in university hooray
You stole this one from Kathy Griffin.
Meanwhile, with all these gifted kids, every other commercial on TV seems to be for a “learning center” for kids who aren’t doing well in school.
You definitely need to add knitting with expensive yarn bought exclusively from independent craft stores. Yarn and supplies from either a Michaels or a Jo-Anns won’t work for a “white person.”
I suppose it’s better than being told you’re violent. Paging Dick Gregory.
i went to a gifted school with black people, asian people, brown people, native people, and white people. so boo freakin hoo.
To be qualified for the gifted program, you must take an IQ test and score 130 or higher. In my gifted program, there were Black, Asian, Latino, and White children. Gifted programs aren’t necessarily discriminatory. Also, not all white children are gifted. This one is pretty much bullshit.
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I will say, though, that being able to get out of class for a couple hours a day and not doing much was a plus.
My school/gifted program was mostly jews!
It doesn’t matter about the asian/black/latino aspect, that there are tons of gifted kids from those cultural backgrounds, what’s funny is the principals stated: that all the kids are gifted. This is super true, everyone today is such a special snowflake.
Thank you for giving unto us this blog to take up our workday.
By the way, you know what’s white? Blogging!!! I wonder if that’s #1, I haven’t got there, yet.
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As a former teacher:
in the school district I worked in in Albuquerque, there were 2 ways for kids to get tested for the gifted program:
1. Teacher identifies the kids, gets them tested. (racial balance of kids matches ration of school)
2. Parents request kids be tested, then argue at IEP meetings if they were borderline (or if the test came back twice exceptional – like dyslexic with high IQ, they would ALWAYS choose the gifted program instead of getting them help so they could actually read). Ratio skews very white/”northern New Mexican” (ie “Spanish”, not Mexican… yeah right).
So I always wanted to barf when parents insisted I get their really average kid tested. The schools frown on teachers barfing on parents.
i was “gifted”. biggest load of bullshit ihave ever heard
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Gifted people are smarter than normal people and therefore should not have to interact with them. Since they are so smart, they made their own program that would allow them to get away from the “not so smarts.” Anyone who complains about it is obviously one of the “not so smarts.”
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Gifted children yes, but at the same time making it perfectly clear that their children are in no way gifted based on hard work or genetic factors but due to the oppression of other people. Very important to remember…………..
i oppress people so my daughter can have a 150 iq and str8 A’s
lol that makes sense
As someone who has actually tested in the .1 percentile (that’s the top one tenth of one percent) I just want to say that we aren’t gifted. We are normal. The rest of you are just amazingly stupid. How else could George W Bush get elected? Twice???
I’m white, and I’m not gifted. I “failed” the test. So what if people are in the gifted class, most of them are stupid anyway. Besides, being “gifted” adds too much stress to life. i.e. my sister, she’s “gifted” and was thrust into a “gifted” program at the end of her 8th grade year, had to learn a years worth of stuff in like 2 weeks. Sucked majorly. Now shes the valedictorian of her high school junior class, but she doesnt sleep at night because she stays up studying for her AP classes… So yea, I’d rather not be gifted and lead a normal life. =3
You are the funniest person ALIVE! My gosh…I am sitting here with my two “gifted” children and every stinking word of this entire site is totally true…..Holy Night…brilliant!
You need a post here about Homeschool–white folks love to home school because of all the ‘morale kerruption’ in the publiks ‘.and all the “bulli-in'”
…AND homeschool gives mommie more time with her ‘gifted child’–especially if that gifted child is a “cute, adopted asian girl”.
Here are some posts on the gift of Homeschooling:
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/education/homeschooling/
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Anonymous, that is very racist! Little did you know that white people love to kiss goats and pump oil, too.
Yeah, I was in a ‘gifted’ program. I agree that they are total bull****. The biggest thing it taught me was elitism. I truly believed that everyone else was an idiot, until I actually dropped out of school and met non-gifted people. Some of the most insightful and creative people I know are NOT from the gifted program.
It is totally true that I never wanted to go home! Through the gifted program, school became a place were I was validated regardless of how immature, irritating or anti-social I was. Now that I live in a non-segregated world, there is so much I have to learn from ‘non-gifted’ people. (As IF a few IQ points ever made a real difference…)
See also “home-schooled children” something that narrow-minded white folks (both liberal and fascist) love, because it allows them to maintain, nurture and defend their child’s narrow-mndedness which has been constructed in the protected sanctity of their own kitchen to be mimetic of their own.
ahhhh… white exceptionalism. charming.
This gifted obsession is purely for protecting white kids from the racism of the general diversity riff raff.
Oh, and white people photograph their food because everything about them is so extraordianry it must be documented and described.
See today’s sidebar featuring Jess’s hamburger.
I thought at first that this might be amusing, but to me it just seems bitter. I did want to say that it seems a number of posters here haven’t really looked into the phenomenon of gifted kids very deeply. They truly are different, and they come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. I know that identifying students from minority populations can be challenging, but please don’t assume that all white children in gifted programs don’t belong there.
Some of the “emotionally handicapped” kids and the insightful/creative ones do, though. Giftedness and creativity are not necessarily mutually-exclusive. Giftedness and learning disabilities are not, either. Who am I? I teach gifted kids. I also teach speakers of languages besides English, many of whom are also in the gifted program. Am I white? Yup. And I live in Maine, one of the “whitest” states in the nation, so I don’t have much to say about percentages.
Once again you have never left the rich elitist pretentious white American areas of California. You would find that everything you write here is actually a very small minority of white Americans
your next one should be “getting offended”
There are real gifted kids out there, but this is a common, false perception of them that hurts them quite a bit. “It’s just elitism! It’s not real! Don’t give them higher education!”
This is amazing! (and a very funny joke) Let’s try and remember that, pundits
Of course the giftedness of all white people is why they act ever so judiciously.
It’s because self-esteem is also a white concept. In Chinese-speaking families, what in the world is self-esteem? The very concept is looked upon with contempt, viewed as a way for white people to feel good about themselves.
@ jeff (52): I think what that commenter meant was that the definition of giftedness commonly used is based on an oppressive system. That said, however, I’m thoroughly tired of hearing the narrative of oppression being used to justify all manner of strange things.
If you’re worried about white oppression, reclaim your culture and master it. Engage with both it and Western culture. If you have none, do more than just indulging in multicultural tokenism that makes you feel cosmopolitan and urbane: really learn about another culture. Try the world of Biblical Israel, since by now that should be foreign enough to a “post-Western” West.
“Or if the kid is lighting a dog on fire” LOL I just spit my Starbucks latte
So funny.
I read pretty much every post on here…anyway, I was going to write clander to tell her to include “Overvaluing their children” as a white trait.
Sure enough, I must have passed right by this post…..but here it is.
I’m so glad I feel in tune in understanding white behavior.
I’m a CPA and my husband is a lawyer. We have three kids and we’re white, so of course, all of our kids arel *gifted.* We pretend with the first two, but the third one is so god-damned special we’ve had to change schools 7 times (8th grade) until we finally found a school for stupid white kids who can be called gifted. It’s costing us a fortune.
Haha…they think they are gifted until they meet an asian or pakistani or indian person, who all seem to beat them, and they make fun of the white kid because they are putting so much effort, and doing worse…. heh
By definition, gifted kids are geniuses. A genius is the top 2-3% of population, or usually an IQ over 140, the same criteria used for identifying gifted kids.
And not all of them are white. (ahem).
Hey Silver18… this is a site for White people…
your one website over in the STUFFJEWSLIKE…
“I’m pretty sure the last non-gifted white child was born in 1962 in Reseda, CA.”
Don’t you mean July 6, 1946 in New Haven, CT
Are there any white kids that really are gifted? Or are they all only fake gifted? I remember when I was in first grade they gave an IQ test to all the kids and put 5 or so kids into the “gifted” program? Does this mean those kids really weren’t gifted it was just cause they were white?
I attended an all gifted school in the 90’s. 130 IQ was the cut-off when I was first accepted. A few years later the school became so over-populated, they raised it to 150. Most of my peers were more rich than smart. We always knew which kids were selected, and which were privately tested. At least half the school was asian. Out of 2,000 students, 3 were black, and very wealthy. Poor kids got pushed out. They had too many emotional problems, family problems. The schoold didn’t know how to handle them.
This list seems more like its all stuff that other races specifically don’t like…thats kinda garbage
http://www.garbarrassing.com
for funny stuff that everyone likes…
Both of my parents are gifted teachers and I was myself a gifted student. Fact: Whites were required to score 130 or better on IQ tests. Minorities were allowed to bend the rules and join the program if they scored >120.
One thing you forgot is that the “gifted” child has to have a black (Caribbean) nanny, or if going on the cheap, an illegal Mexican one. . . It used to be Irish nannies but with “the troubles” being over the Irish are all actors now. . . .
If you tell a white male child he’s gifted, he ends up living with his mother until he’s 60, or until she dies (whatever comes first).
I love this! I live in a posh county, and I’ve never met so many “gifted” kids in my life. I have had several parents “casually” ask me what I know about the EL (exceptional learners) program at our kids’ school. I don’t know if the purpose of this question is to determine if I think my kids are gifted or to let me know they think their kids are gifted (probably both). Those sneaky white people! LOL. Since when did it become a stigma to have a NORMAL kid in a NORMAL class? This is definitely the case in my white corner of the world.
this website is really funny. but as i read it i realize, i am white…and wow this website must have been made by white people because white people just love to be self-depricating because it means they have some self-knowledge. but i am probably going to lululemon after work to buy yoga pants and I will also probably get an iced green tea from starbucks because i am going on a fast. hahaha.
Guilty. I was gifted, so was my husband and so is my kid. But I certainly went to school with plenty of stupid white people. You’d probably call them Crackers. Come to think of it…I went to school with plenty of stupid people of all colors. The blue ones…all they did was sing and talk about how smurfy everything was.
Yes, a list of oh dare I say.. 87 items white people like. I’m REAL suprised people like so many of them… hell I know somethings black people like.. watermelon, chicken, beer, teddy bears, jazz, and flags. what’s that? I named a lot of things and you liked some of them? That’s because I’m right! Not because I named a lot, of course not!
Do you notice that when white children do somthing heinous and get arrested, the newspaper article mentions that they were A students or Honor students at school? What’s up with that???
Gifted children should be burned I hate nothing more than seeing a fuckin bumper sticker with “blah blah child blah blah” no one gives a fuck stop trying to hide what ever thing udont have.
I was a child from a poor, small-town family in the midwest with parents who were completely disinterested in anything going on in my life especially at school. Yet, somehow despite these circumstances, I ended up in a gift program at school called Project Challenge.
Although we knew ourselves how lame this actually was and resigned to calling ourselves Reject Challenge.
I wonder if they still even have that program these days or if it’s considered too un-PC to single out a handful of kids as being more gifted than ALL of the gifted kids in school.
haha … clearly I wasn’t really “gifted”, as I couldn’t even spell the word above đź‰
(Although I would’ve liked to belong to a “gift” program!)
oh yeah i know all about this. i am a total idiot, but to my white parents i am GIFTED. so much that they sent me to a fucking gifted school, with lots of other gifted white kids, who are also total fucking retards, but they’re GIFTED! and when my grades started slipping (relatively, like a bad to worse thing) they got me diagnosed by a nice white psychologist with gifted white kids as ADD (and to get a “gifted” white kid diagnosed with ADD all he/she has to do is get bored during a 30-minute session where you do nothing but press a button every time a computer screen blinks, and absolutely nothing else). so I’m still gifted, my abilities are just hampered by my ADD! yaaaaay ritalin!
You’re completely right to a point, but I’m going to call bull**** on some of it.
My parents thought I was pretty average kid, but they didn’t want me hanging out with some of the twits in regular classes.
I was accepted into a GT class, where in all probability, there was one really genuinely smart kid out of a class of 25. Most of them were all clueless like me. It’s the same reason my parents paid for math tutors and flute lessons. The same reason why snotty soccer moms talk about their kids like they’re the next beckham or do their kid’s science projects themselves.
These people know their brats aren’t any more intelligent or talented than anyone else’s. In fact, they may be the most genetically challenged little pigs ever. But can you really blame these people for not wanting their kids to wind up smoking crack or passed out on the floor of a gas station restroom? I mean, having kids is a massive lottery, it seems. Imagine spending your retirement savings on Junior’s extra curriculars and he still ends up a lonely, malajusted loser that wont leave home after 30.
This particular one is HILARIOUS!!! I have been a school counselor for 10 years and this seems to be true. When a gifted program or school only accepts 200 students per year, there are over 500 applications and when they the child does not get accepted, counselors are hounded to the max as to why not? Trust me. Everyone who send their children to public school wants their child to be gifted!
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I’m white and gifted, and I barely got through high school. The gifted classes were about 1/3 white, 1/3 black, and 1/3 hispanic/asian/other, racially. about 1/10 of the class was like me, failing class and being lazy.
The other kids were straight A kids, and all went off to college. I became a drug dealer. Go figure.
I fucking hate “gifted” children.
Most gifted kids are learning disabled kids who are smart rather than stupid. That’s why so many of them screw up in school. Being “Smart” just means that their programs get less funding.
Sigh, it’s all so true. In every one of our conventions we seem to be mocking ourselves even if our goals were of the best intentions.
I was a gifted child, not a ‘gifted’ child. But what’s more important than to teach them is to passively observe them throughout their learning process so that any signs of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses that mainly affect people of higher intelligence
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this site is frickin’ fun readin’!! my husband and i have two grown children, they BOTH were in the G/T program in elementary. our oldest was in 2nd grade when in 1983 when our rural school district began a G/T program. my husband was on the G/T Board for a short while, he became bored with the drivel at their meetings which included a few token parents, a couple of teachers and administrators!!! funny things: 1) kids weren’t “tested” until the 2nd grade, and on teacher recommendation, 2) BOTH of our kids had IQ scores lower than the 130 mentioned, 3) we knew they were bright kids, and paid attention in school because they were taught that education was important and so was respecting their teachers. but did we think they were gifted? nah. i was enrolled in college and became a teacher. and i’ve heard my share of G/T teachers, gurus talk about identifying “gifted” kids in our classrooms. but that is old talk, haven’t heard it used in the past half-dozen years, at least. G/T has gone by the wayside, but now each
child can have their own educational plan! how darn specia is that?!!
my observation on this topic is that 90% of the so called gifted kids have older siblings…and that’s where the more “mature” thinking comes from, including talk about boobs and vagina when they are only 6 years old…curious if anyone ever did a study/statistic on it
I have to say being “gifted” pretty much saved my sanity. But maybe that’s because I was white trash rather than a WASP, like most of the white people spoken of here. My parents weren’t pushing all of us into gifted–neither of my sisters were.
But where I went to school the homecomming queen was the mother of two, most of the kids dropped out and hunting was an official excused absence (I have no problem with hunters, I just think that school should be a priority.)
Having one teacher to go to when I was getting mercilessly picked on was what kept me sane. My gifted councilor knew how to apply for scholarships that my parents had no clue about (being white trash and all), and the school councilor was too lazy to show me. When I wasn’t learning anything in history, she helped me petition the school board for a more advanced class. She helped me test out of the lower levels of English.
And yes, there were those parents who INSISTED that their precious bay-bee was gifted, even in the white trash schools. Our school simply allowed only testing with the school and the IQ had to be above a certain number. I had a 160 so there was no problem.
I can promise you that if it weren’t for our gifted program I would have flunked many of the lower level classes. I wouldn’t have done the work. I would not have gone to college, and I wouldn’t be a contributing member of society.
Gifted programs are abused. Having a high IQ is as much a disability as a low one. It’s not a honor to splash on your “precious one”, and excuse them from work. Gifted programs should be designed to kick their little gifted butts in gear!!!!! It should be like saying “I have cancer!”
When they are good, they make less pot smokers, not more.
People can call this blog this or that, but I call it funny. I am positive that some publisher will pick this up and want to make a book out of it, perhaps the author will even become a temporary celebrity a la Jeff Foxworthy.
As a person of mixed race, though white appearing, I love this blog for its accurate depiction of the experience of white, urban, professionals. It is astounding to hear what white people will confide to me not knowing my mixed race status, and thus the veneer is cracked on occasion, despite a thick, left-of-center coat of polish. Usually as a quick save, the white person will explain that they are used to speaking candidly with their Mexican friends . . . though I highly doubt that the “friends” they mention would consider THEM a friend.
The gifted child thing is just symptomatic of the way how kids now are so ridiculously catered to. Music lessons, sport practice (all which they are driven to, even if it is just blocks away) its become where children themselves are the ones actually in charge of families instead of the parents themsleves, breeding an entire generation arrogant narcissists who, more than ever have naively come to believe that the world DOES in fact revolve them. The Real World will come as an especially rude shock when they find out that unlike what Mommy and Daddy told they are in fact NOT that special.
lol, i think your talking about YUPPIES …. but i have to agree on this one. Fuc+ yuppies and their Gifted children
I always noticed that the 250 pound 35 year old mom’s who are divorcing there husbands to collect child support always think their god damnd stupid kid is gifted just because he is gay.
Make your little shit sit down at the piano at 7 and play some serious Bach and I’ll believe you, otherwise stuff another Krispy Cream in your fat disgusting mouth and go take a big shit. Fucking pimple skinned pig lady. Oh, and pop another fucking Paxil you freaks!! Let your kids play outside and maybe the would get gifted at something.
I went to racially mixed schools. I took honrs classes and never once saw a black or hispanic. It was all whites and asians. So people claiming that their gifted programs were 1/3 blacks and 1/3 hispanics are full of crap. My graduate classes are still full of whites and asians. I’ve seen only two hispanics. The only blacks I see are recent immigrants from Africa. I still regularly test over 130 IQ
When I was a teacher in a suburb outside of Boulder (90-something%white) a parent told me that when she’d been talking to other parents at a youth soccer game, she’d learned that everyone had a child who was either “gifted” or in special education. Either white children are “gifted” or there’s a clinical reason why they’re not.
okay, i relate to a majority of these posts. i guess i have lighter skin, but how light? how do you even define that, especially to put someone in a category of “black” or “white.” now only that, but would someone’s race change if they got really tan in the summer, since that’s the ONLY cause of skin color variations? you cannot even tell what someone’s race is on a gene test – THERE IS AS MUCH GENETIC VARIETY BETWEEN PEOPLE WITHIN A RACE AND BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACES. So please, saying “stuff white people like” is not funny at all, instead how about the upper middle class of america, since they seem to be the targeted group towards these jokes??
i do think this blog is funny minus the racist crap, because it’s pretty spot on with the stereotypical upper middle class. the gifted thing is so overrated, but in our gifted program in elementary school, we went once a week to a class that actually challenged us and it was much more individualized since there were only 6 of us. i think a better program would be to have something similar to this, but instead of so called “gifted” people, offer it to the kids that genuinely want to learn more.
oh yea, and i don’t mean that race doesn’t exist in terms of bias (obviously this blog is a perfect example of this), i just mean biologically. i’m fully aware of the racial oppression in this society, and that’s why i don’t think even the racist jokes are funny, b/c they make the stereotypes so much worse.
“Eventually they will show their creativity in their elaborate constructions of bongs and intimate knowledge different kinds of mushrooms and hash.”
Hee hee. 🙂
Ha, I was in “Gifted and Talented” as a youngster<—I know it’s hard for me to believe as well. My sister and her fiance (both really white) were talking about elite preschools and they don’t even have children yet!
Carlos I was just wondering from what you said earlier. Are you half Mexican? If you are Half Mexican half White (anglo w/e) doesn’t that make you just plain old white? Mexicans are mostly indigenous and Spaniard some have a splash of african or northern european but mostly Spanish and Indigenous. So if you blend that with white american you get almost completely or easily more than half “white” ancestry.
Stop me if I’m wrong, but I didn’t know there was a 1 drop rule for Mexicans too. Identify with whatever you feel like, but there’s another perspective on it.
More ideas: hospice. Fund raisers for hospice. “Friends of the library” type organizations. NPR fundraisers.
Curse the gifted programs. I was labled as one of these poor kids in the third grade. I was always good at taking tests and I know most of the answers when I watch Jeopardy, but unless you go on game shows it is a pretty useless skill. I also wanted to take an auto mechanic vo-tech class with my electives in high school because I like working on cars and the counselor and my parents shot it down. I was a lousy student, but the valedictorian cheated off me during tests in our AP classes.
and giving them ridiculous names like skyler
because they’re smart enough to come up with these wierd master plans
YES. You nailed it. The population is getting dumber.
^White.
^Poor.
^Middle- to no-class.
^Gifted.
And I think I have ADD.
Wait, doesn’t everyone now have the ADD?
“Or if the kid is lighting a dog on fire while screaming at their mother, you say “my he/she is a creative one. Is he/she gifted?” To which the parent will reply “oh, yes, he’s too creative and smart for school. We just don’t know what to do.””
I lol’d.
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Go to hell, Jake. You see women as pushing their “gifted” children because they are the only ones who will step up to the plate and actually take responsibility for raising the kid. If it was left up to men, the kids would be gifted farters and pranksters.
I agree with this. The only way to learn anything in my high school, which was in a predominantly wealthy part of the city in which I grew up, was to be in the advanced placement classes. I suck at math, but even I was in advanced math for most of my schooling because the teachers were geniuses and although it was hard and I had to go to after-school catch-up sessions, I learned something from them. After getting a D in precalc, I was relegated to “regular” calculus and took my first class with the general population. This teacher was such a f*cking moron. He just phoned it in every day. He couldn’t give examples that weren’t printed in the textbook and he “taught” us for the first fifteen minutes then let us do our “homework” for the remaining 45. The class was such a collossal waste of time. If this is the kind of shoddy education “regular” kids are getting, I sure as hell would want my children to be in the gifted and talented program.
How about stupid?
I recommend reading an informative book entitled “I Hate Other People’s Kids”. It’s a perfect satire of the current ‘white parenting’ trends.
White people also don’t believe in disciplining their children, because they’re afraid they might ‘traumatize’ their gifted little darlings.
Lol.
I went to an all black school. I was in the gifted program. That means that all the gifted kids were black. Stop commenting on blogs to feel better about yourself. Why don’t you take your alleged 130 IQ and put it to some good use.
I pooped my pants
white people like 10 year olds that can do any complex mathematical calculation related to texas holdem in their heads in under two seconds but still have to wear a diaper
gifted white children should be locked up until they are 13 years old and then sold to slave traders, the money can be given to their parents so that they can buy a cadillac or lexus. You know? my childs classroom has one of these white gifted children and it is horrible for the other (non white) childrens self asteem. Lock em up so my kid can be the smartest in the room.
lol I know two dead head druggies and actually witnessed one of them smoking out of a bong and breast feeding her baby. She swears up and down her child is “gifted” we’ll see.
No, “home schoolers” tend to be a little lower in the gene pool if you know what I mean… or just really religious and afraid of everyone and everything. (Not that those are mutually exclusive)
This is stuff middle to upper class suburban white people like, not the stuff sub-suburban or so-religious-they-evoke-anxiety-wherever -they -go, white people like.
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Well said. There really is a difference between how people learn, socialize, and think when their IQ is 2, 3 or more standard deviations from average.
If you truly posess an exceptional IQ and “dont’ see a difference” between yourself and average folks, you are fooling yourself and/or being dishonest. Or perhaps you should put yourself into a more intellectually demanding environment. But the difference is plain when attempting meaningful, complex communication with someone 30-40 points away.
Imagine if all the average, 100 IQ people had to spend their time in classes surrounded by people who score 40-60. That difference would be pretty obvious, too.
Maybe another topic for this blog should be “white people like to begrudge their giftedness and devalue the advantages that it provides.”
As far as people who aren’t really exceptional wanting to be in gifted classes, well, they’ll just have to work their butts off I guess. Probably not too bad a lesson. I know as someone who barely lifted a finger all through school and had a 4.0, learning a work ethic would have been beneficial in the long run.
You’re an Idiot Savant, but without the pesky savant part.
those people that actually have bumper stickers that say “my child is an honor student” make me want to HURL>>!
I was in pretty much every honors or AP course growing up, and in the classes which weren’t, there was a very noticeable difference. It was so much better being in class with other students who were interested in learning, and I got along much better with them.
Now, the elementary school gifted programs, which were additional work on extra subjects, were useless. I did not like extra work while remaining in classes with non-challenging work taught at a slow pace. I would much rather have the extra time to do the non-challenging homework and thus have more time to play once home.
The gifted classes were mostly white and Asian, but that was true of the places where I lived as well.
All young white boys are gifted farters and pranksters.
the other response if your child isn’t gifted is that: “we don’t believe in segregating them in a separate environment. that goes against our democratic values and belief in diversity (#7) for those of all intellectual creeds. after all, in the real world will there be separate offices for those that are gifted? we know he/she is gifted, but we feel that they will best benefit, as will their classmates, from their inclusion in the mainstream.”
me– GUILTY! LOL.
Thank you, mommie.
how about annoyingly repetitive. jeesh.
Brava/o!
white Americans, but not “White” Americans. there’s a diff.
wow. you scared me there. how true.
also, this may be very white of me to say, but IQ and EQ (not equalization) are 2 very different things.
The mainstream is where it’s at. I grew up not rich, but white, in the butt-end of a VERY white county in northern NJ, and there were no G&T programs, but there >>were<< AP classes in HS. We did have an adjunct program–privately run & funded–that gave classes like rocketry, computers, chemistry, etc. on Saturdays in the best school district in the county to those that qualified, but we were not segregated in the public schools. It was bad enough that most of the other kids knew me and a few others–tested together, a 2nd time, to confirm our 130+ IQs–were “special.” To have segregated us would have been like homocide in those tough white Jersey schools!
The point is, all young white girls would also become gifted farters and pranksters, and unless white breeders turned to AI like their LGBT counterparts that would be the end of white people.
You may think that would be a good thing, but think of the nostalgia industry that came out of the antebellum South and multiply that by a factor of a billion.
Yeah that happened to me too. But this entry is so true! My parents never pulled me out of public school, and I’m not sure all or even most white parents are pointedly pulling their kids out of schools to ensure they are with other white kids (but then again, my mother teaches inner city kids for a living so we may have “weird” ideas about public education). Nonetheless, they were already starting the “I’m gifted, you’re gifted, we’re all gifted here!” process when I was in elementary school. Everybody wants to believe their kid is a genius.
This is so true. White people love retarded kids. There kids are not retarded but gifted and everyone else is just retarded.
I was a gifted kid. It was just so that my mom had something to hold over her friend’s heads, though. I was pushed my entire k-12 experience and I’m pretty sure it screwed me over. College by the time I was fifteen. I would listen to her talking on the phone to her friend (who had “gifted” kids in special ed) and try not to hurl. “Yeah, she got another 4.0 in her honors class…”
it’s such a white thing…at least to be that tacky about it. I swear to God I wanted to kill her for it. She just used me as an object, as something to brag about. I hate white people (I am white, but does that change anything?)
Leave kids alone. Trying to make them gifted screws them in the head for life. Look at my blog for proof. http://senoritaburrito.wordpress.com.
You guys definitely got it spot-on with the gifted children blog. Keep going. So far you got most of my life almost perfectly.
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One of the teachers at my school insists that gifted children need a place where they can interact solely with each other. She is also advocated for all-boy or all-girl classroom, since some questionable research indicates this might be a good move. To me, single-sex classroom sound like “separate but equal” – which is not equal – and gifted classroom are clearly separate and unequal. Do we not have to learn to interact with everyone outside of school? Is it not valuable to realize that anyone has something to teach you, if you are willing to learn? I get frustrated by the sense of entitlement and the hoarding of resources – in the case of some families and their so-called gifted children, the resources they are after are separate rules for their special children. If this is the nation of equal opportunity, which was a value I absorbed during my own schooling, than gifted programs are inherently unfair. (And I was a so-called gifted child and it did separate me from other races and socio-economic classes in my large urban public school district.)
When I get irritated with the narcissism of my students, in any class, which is an infrequent reaction on my part because I do understand that narcissism is a developmental stage for them as 7th graders, I have them write the following dictation:
“As a child in the United States between the ages of 5 and 18, I have a right to a free and a public education provided for me at the taxpayers expense. I recognize that I would probably learn better if I had an individual tutor who was able to cater everything to my own individual interests, but in fact, it is more economical to educate me in the presence of other students my age at a ratio of 20 to 40 students to 1 adult. As such, public schooling in the United States means that I will be introduced to topics that seem to have little relevance to me personally, but which voters and legislators decided to would be important to learn and thus codified under the federal No Child Left Behind law. I also recognize that even though schooling is compulsory, and that I have to be here or my family may face legal consequences, I can consider myself fortunate because in other countries, people have decided that only rich boys may be educated. This means that if I were a girl or from a poor family, I have very little freedom and very little power. In some countries, if I were a girl, it would be legal for my parents to arrange my marriage to someone five times older than me when I was just nine years old. My thirteen year old counterparts in other countries might have one or two toddlers they must care for, whereas, I, here, in the United States, get the privilege of sitting in school, texting friends, listening to my iPod, and eating all the food provided for me. I realize that in some countries, if I were a boy, I would not be allowed to marry and have legal access to females until I was able to support a family, which, given the high rates of unemployment in other countries, might not be until I was older than 30. Again, in other countries, I might have lost my own life prior to the age of five through a preventable illness, such as diarrhea that I contracted from drinking contaminated water in my slum. In still other countries, I would have been put to work for twelve hour days before the age of ten in factories where I am exposed to toxic chemicals and dangerous machinery, where there are no “hall passes” to go to the bathroom when I choose. Therefore, I am thankful to live and learn in the United States, even though my life and the system are not perfect. Therefore, I will use my time and my brain wisely and allow the community in this classroom to return to the lesson at hand.”
I only ever have to do this about once in any class of students. It sparks an interesting conversation, and shortly allows us to return to the lesson at hand, which in my case, is Biology.
I think it’s a big lie to say that public schools are failing in the US. You may not have fond memories of your own schooling, but you are lucky to have it. Plus, things have changed in terms of how material is taught.
Now, I do know that I am lucky to be a teacher where I am as opposed to where some of my counterparts in other parts of the country teach.
oh I second this – I wish parents would just shut up and let their kids be kids.
yep I feel like the 8 advanced placement and 6 gifted courses I took in high school were a complete waste of time. I could have been enjoying life or something trivial like that. I wonder how many years I’ve already lost to stress.
yes I also went to a gifted/private school for a while. Regardless of skin color everyone’s the spawn of rich bastards who seem to care more about the bragging rights of rather than the well-being of their children. (and I had to stop attending because we couldn’t afford it, never have I been so grateful to be “poor”) The pressure isn’t on the students but the teachers to make sure that Jr. passes somehow. Extra donation to the school if he/she gets straight A’s.
I was also thrown into a genius testing marathon via a co-op between my parents and 3rd grade teach. (yes my parents are the obnoxious pushy kind- and yes! I detest them for the most part, what a surprise) Indeed I was a faster reader with the ability to logically deduce the meaning of most “difficult” words based on context, which is somehow oh so remarkable. Needless to say I was placed in some accelerated programs, but, what do you know, I’ve only recently gotten back into leisure reading (in college) because I started developing testing anxiety and began to break down under all the pressure (since then through high school- if you were to graph my GPA from grade 3-11 you’d see a linear if not exponential decay). Parents just don’t understand that pressuring their children can have negative effects, and I feel like I missed out on a lot of the “fun times.” I know there’s no point in feeling spiteful now that I’ve taken control of my life, but I hope parents might think twice and consider the happiness of their child over their reputation – for how much is a reputation (at least in this area) really worth anyway? It’s literally like saying “everyone is special.”
I agree that GT work can be good preparation for college, but at least in my particular case there was so much pressure to do well that I wanted nothing to do with the courses. I did take a few regular courses to test the “average waters” and agree that those are a complete waste of time as well. I think I would have been most successful just not attending school whatsoever.
I don’t think the blog is so bad but yes Asians represented over 50% of the acceptance to accelerated courses in my high school. I think it depends on the area though – I happen to live on the east coast, you’re probably less likely to encounter such a statistic in the midwest, etc.
Hooray I’m depressed too- failed last semester though, improving now.
My Calculus II course was mostly Jews.
I agree- every home-schooled kid I’ve ever met (the number is 5 so far) has been taught that way for religious purposes.
I’m white and my GPA in college was 2.2.
If my kids beat that I will be happy.
Huh?????
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I attend a High School which is probably about 95% white Caucasian. Next year there will be over 120 kids enrolled in AP English out of a class of about 300, the majority of these kids are waived in or their classes are made easier until they qualify because if they don’t then something is wrong. As someone who is actually gifted (I have an IQ of over 140 Stanford-Binet) this is incredibly frustrating. All ready most of the kids in my higher-end classes don’t belong there, which means the teacher assigns more homework or busywork, boosting their grades and lowering mine because I have trouble making myself do useless homework.
What do you have to say about irony, sarcasim,and plain fun,this isn’t ment to be scientific , or real just fun.
see above
You couldn’t be more right! Parents who can’t acknowledge how awful their children are create some of the laziest, most self-absorbed wastes of space on the planet. Not to mention crazy psycho serial killers…. And white parents are the absolute worst about it!
ahem, don’t you mean “already” genius?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/education/10gifted.html?ref=education
Thank goodness the NY school system is acknowledging that all of our precious children are gifted.
When I was in elementary I was in the TAG (Talented And Gifted… apparently the acronym was prettier than GAT, or something) program with four other girls. We were the Smart, Special People.
I’ve also got ADD, asperger’s, mood disorders, and anxiety. Some days I can’t make eye contact with people, or talk above a whisper, or go anywhere without at least one other person. A year ago my parents almost put me in an alternate campus because I was struggling so much, but they didn’t.
I’m the “smart, misunderstood” girl. It kind of sucks.
no shit
I feel for. Lucky for me I’m in a program where only the truly “gifted” get in. Most are white but considering that 90% of the people in my county are white its not amazing.
Also, why do we even make race a big deal any more? We just train future generations by making a fuss out of it.
Last statement. All children are “gifted” because everyone wants there child to feel special if not then thief kids will become emotionally scarred for life.
fixing typos
I feel for KM and we train fiuture generations to factor race into their thought processes
Also, KM that is a pretty impressive IQ mine is only 135.
You should know that the Stanford-Binet is totally inaccurate. Have you read Stephen Jay Gould? He talks about how the “gifted” classification is basically just a white test to see how white you are, and how well you’ve internalized white middle-class values. Your 140 on the S-B is equal to like, 100 in the real world. So you’d better get crackin’ on your white studies.
You know what else is white? Throwing your IQ out there. And taking IQ tests online, then using it as proof that you’re an underachieving genius.
Also, MENSA.
That’s fucking hilarious! My mascara ran I laughed so hard.
I was labelled G&T from the time I was about four. Was labelled as 145+ at age 7. Thank god they didn’t skip me ahead a few grades, as was planned. I would have been even more socially and emotionally retarded than I already am. What I did end up with was a mother who was wonderfully resentful of my intellect and an alcoholic father. Wheee!
Although I wasn’t into the Punic Wars… the French Revolution was way more fun. And bloody. Yeah… I think the best things G&T education gave me were an appreciation for Monty Python and a healthy love of the aristocracy-culling tendencies of Madame Guillotine. And the ability to succeed in MMORPGs.
Why is it that most gifted programs are mainly White and Asian? I would assume that with all the racially balanced
school issues like affirmative action the programs aren’t
perfectly balanced at diverse schools.
hum…. I don’t know about white people being gifted they may have better schools and programs but I can’t say I even met a gifted white person. I lived in many places where I was the only black person in class and like the 5th in the school, I don’t remember the teaches ever saying any of them are gifted. White people may had book smarts but they damn sure don’t have any common sense. A person who lacks common sense is a very dumb person. I know white people are crazy, not only did they own slaves who they beat, raped, and killed. They are also perverts, They are who you see on nbc’s to caught a predator, Wanting to get with little girls and boys, I don’t think that is genius, What about the WHITE guy that got caught 3 times. Most serial killers are White, I think they all are WHITE expect one. At least blacks are genius enough not to kill everybody and rape kids, What about the WHITE women who lied about being raped by a black men, When all they wanted was some good D***, are they geniuses? They put innocent men in jail for nothing. Well, again I don’t know about them being geniuses, But I do know the person who wrote this article need to be locked up for not getting fact right
stuffwhitepeoplelike-fucking goats
stuffwhitepeoplelike-trailers
stuffwhitepeoplelike-little boys
stuffwhitepeoplelike-there daughters
stuffwhitepeoplelike-belittling people
stuffwhitepeoplelike-killing people
stuffwhitepeoplelike-buying pussy
stuffwhitepeoplelike-selling pussy
stuffwhitepeoplelike-acid,heroin,crack,coke,ex
stuffwhitepeoplelike-died because of a drug
stuffwhitepeoplelike-music about suicide
stuffwhitepeoplelike-killing there kids
stuffwhitepeoplelike-rape
stuffwhitepeoplelike-smelling like wet dog
stuffwhitepeoplelike-not clean there body
stuffwhitepeoplelike-eating pussy
stuffwhitepeoplelike-thinking their better than somebody
I am not racist, I feel bad for even saying this but it is true, And for the record heroin is a white person drug blacks can’t effort it and alot of WHITE people died from it
WHITE KIDS ARE JUST SPOIL LIL BRATS
Well….. you did name him “Hank”…
the also like to go outside in the rain???????????????????
Gifted children are often subjected to bullying.
I know a child who was distraught after being subjected to cyber-bullying through Honesty Box. I emailed my concerns to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Facebook.
Mark responded:
http://www.reallyworried.com/Worry.aspx?worryId=5733
I guess everyone wants to hold onto the hope that their kids will break away from the molds that so many are cast with, be a leader and not a follower — super rare, but you want to hope that it may be the case—and why not?
Im white… tested into a gifted program when I was in elementary school and got to get out of class 1 day a week to do things like learn different languages and advanced math
Now Im in law school…
oh yeah, i listen to a lot of indie rock
Ugh, This is so TRUE. I’m in public high school right now, and it pisses me off how students who don’t belong in a certain class get in anyway.
For 10th grade, you have an option of going to regular global studies, or take a placement test for AP Euro. Those kind of classes should be small, right? Not if half of those kids were just “signed” into the course instead of accepted through the test. It’s absolute BS. Alot of classes are like that in my school. The Symphony Orchestra has at least 30 more people than the Regular Orchestra. There’s 5 levels of math for 11th grade (the “slow” math, regular math, pre-calc, Honors pre-calc, 11th grade honors), which makes it easier for white people to brag (they have 3 “accelerated” choices to brag about)…
But hey, that’s what you get for going to a school known for producing at least 4 Intel Semi-Finalists every year. Thank God I’ve got easy-going asian parents who accept my average-ness.
YOU ARE A MORON
“BLACKASCANBE on April 17, 2008 at 5:42 pm
White people may had book smarts but they damn sure don’t have any common sense. A person who lacks common sense is a very dumb person.
At least blacks are genius enough not to kill everybody and rape kids, What about the WHITE women who lied about being raped by a black men, When all they wanted was some good D***, are they geniuses?
But I do know the person who wrote this article need to be locked up for not getting fact right”
hahahahahahaha
“Let your kids play outside and maybe the would get gifted at something.”
hahaha. did anyone read the one about how white people like to make other people feel bad for not spending time outside. hahaha
Haha
When I read:
“…Eventually they will show their creativity in their elaborate constructions of bongs…”
At first glance, I read “…elaborate constructions of blogs…”
I think that may actually be funnier.
“in fact, most of this blog seems to be about yuppie, middle- to upper- class whites.”
..who are, in fact, a minority of whites overall, aren’t they? i’m not even talking about middle-america, but everywhere. reading this, you’d think poor white people were some sort of rare exception. guess maybe it’s just that we poor white trash folk find this omg-its-so-true crap less amusing.
H-E-L-L-O? Poor whites aren’t funny. In the Bell Curve of Life, 50% of the population has an IQ of 100 or less, of which poor whites compose a large percentage, and I can guarantee you they aren’t writing writing clever essays about the more base appetites that tyrannize the upper middle class whites. This blog is brilliant in terms of social construct. Who wants to read hickish locutions or sentences ending in ‘at’. I’m sure most of the people who read this hilarious blog can in some way identify with references to that bourgeois faux affluence with which most of the middle class seems so entranced.
I agree. This one is disgusting. I knew one family where their youngest daughter was traumatized the day she failed the test to be diagnosed as TAG when all three of her older siblings had. I also knew a dad who complained at length at a staff meeting about his daughter not getting an ‘A’ in soccor because the coach felt she was dogging it and this screwed up her 4.0 GPA. I wanted to tell him he should thank the coach for saving his daughter from more years of sucking up to the whims of every single teacher to preserve her perfect GPA. But I didn’t say it because at the time I liked my job.
Sam
It would be nice to have a detailed explanation of exactly what kind of white people this blog applies to. I try explaining it to people, but they always bring up white trash to counter the blog entries.
Huh?
Gifted testing and placement are different where I live. The gifted programs are all in the “black” schools. So it’s Kind of like telling the white “liberal” snobs if they want they’re children to be in the gifted program, they’ll have to attend them with black kids! Of course most of these ass-fucks wind up sending their fucked up kids to over-priced, “everyone is special”, discipline lacking, private schools. My son has benefited by going to a school where the teachers will tell him when he’s wrong, discipline him when he misbehaves, and kids will rough him up if he’s a smart-ass. That’s the real world folks! One day these kids may have to come out of their cushy, lilly-white world and face it.
Wow, what profound remarks.
“Gifted children yes, but at the same time making it perfectly clear that their children are in no way gifted based on hard work or genetic factors but due to the oppression of other people.”
I supposed that would be _other_ white people’s children, not their own …
meritocracy explains all my successes ( and none of my failures)
huh?
Facts are straight read up on it. it like one serial killer that was black and he was brain wash from the white-man war. I am a moron , but you thinks it ok for some one to write a article like, oh wait I am talking to a white person, no common sense
and thats why they smell like wet dog
hey, speaking from a West Coast/grew up up East Coast All White Bread perspective,,, I love Michaels and Jo-Ann’s Yarn selection…. OMG does that make me white trash!? 🙂
Luckily, we “white folks” have enough common sense to know that you are a minority among black people. Not all blacks are as feeble-minded as you are. Most are very well educated and able to see that this blog is a JOKE!
“Yeah, and I’m talking to a black person, no grammar or vocabulary. ”
That statement is AS idiotic YOUR statement:
“but you thinks it ok for some one to write a article like, oh wait I am talking to a white person, no common sense”
I’ve known and loved many people in my life: Whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Indians. If there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that you need to take people as individuals, REGARDLESS of the amount of some fucking chemical in their skin or what some dipshit spews in an echo-chamber, like Jeremiah Wright, David Duke, or that retard who runs the World Church of the Creator.
I’m sorry that your experiences have tainted your view of Whites. At the end of the day, though, Racism, a form of HATE, is evil, and racists, whatever their color, are just fucking stupid. Grow the FUCK up!
Good God, this is a HUMOR website, and my blood pressure is through the roof!
just another white chick 2u on April 29, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Luckily, we “white folks” have enough common sense to know that you are a minority among black people. Not all blacks are as feeble-minded as you are. Most are very well educated and able to see that this blog is a JOKE!
SECONDED!
White people are definitely smarter than the majority of the population. It must be why there is so much support in scholarships, grants, etc. for minorities to to attend college. White people really don’t need the education unless it’s required for a particular job, right? Non-white people definitely do though. That’s why I get to go in debt up to my neck to attend college. Also, anyone who takes this site seriously is a moron.
hahaha gifted!! i was trnsfered to gifted and honors classes because i did nothing in class and mnaged to get As in test, the only difference i notices in those “special” classes was that they triple your homework (yea thats very special) i got out after teh first year. also all the stuff in honors, advanced gifted program (or howver you callit) is the base curriculum of almost all other countrie’s public or private system (even third and developing ones)
My (white) 5th grader is in the gifted program but she is totally in the minority there– it’s mostly Asian kids in the program at her school. So “gifted” children is something asian people like as well, apparently.
tonight 30 black men will die at the hand of 30 other black men in the name of keeping it real. 10,000 black men will die in the name of this cause. keep it real and remember all this is whities fault. ur thought process is like cancer and if it was not for illeagels crossing the boarder, we would have no work force. you are forgetting that some of us whities grew up with blackies, schools, churches, court systems, neighbors, while you are keepin it real, i am giving my work to someone that will make me money, peace
ur fired, oh yea, u were never hired cause you never showed up on the first day, i grew up with many black folks and i know, its whities fault because the whotoos chopped off the arms of the tootsies, oh no, my chickens have been roosting for many years and i own my chickens
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
Wow, I just remembered that I am white and I have never owned a slave and neither has a single person in my family (yup even if you go back hundreds of years). In fact, my grandparents grew up picking cotton in the fields with blacks and whites. Are you a slave? Oh yeah, probably not because it is almost non existent in the US now. Thanks for being a racist idiot. Also, your statistics are fucked up. White and black people are equally able to do evil. After all, who sold the slaves to white colonists? Other black people. Every person is capable of evil, it’s the choices we make, not the color of our skin, that dictates who we are.
Oh, and to this post… Only children with certain IQs were in the gifted programs in my schools. It was a small percentage of children, and they came from all ethnic backgrounds.
Personally, I know my Timmy would be amazing in school if it weren’t for his central auditory processing disorder, ADHD, receptive language disorder, and developmental reading disorder (it affects 2% of all children, what a martyr I am). But because he is really quite gifted, he is still able to dress and feed himself – despite all those factors working against him!
We parents of unrecognized gifted children should start a support group.
This comment series makes me impossibly happy on so many levels.
Looking for parents of gifted girls ages 7-16 who would like to apply to be part of an exclusive new Girl Gamer Squad:
http://gamersquad.princessbridegame.com/girlgamersquad.html
I think you mean “special” as in needs- short bus what ever.
hey blackascanbe. you forgot one important fact- most poeple on welfare, in prison etc. are black. that shows that as a race y’all fucked up
are you truely as retarded as you put off to be ? that is truely sadder than alot of other shit here. Did anyone ever refer to you as “gifted”
wtf are you talking about.did anyone ever tell you that you are a prime example of why abortions should never become illegal. well, you just have.
Sounds like before a support group is started. you and people like you should check into a group discount for getting sterilized. that or learn to swallow. lol
blackascanbe
When white people smell like wet dog, it’s because they lay down with black women.
The kids- white or whatever- that suffer the most are the ones who were pushed to do this or that and be famous or make alot of money [usually for mommy and daddy] The parents of these kids need to be flogged, or punished for what these kids do when they snap – i vote for michael jacksons parents to be publicly sexually abused like he did those poor young boys. The freak had a life sized blow up of a young boy dressed in a boyscout uniform for cryin’ out loud
If you really think enjoying life is trivial, then you are truely a sad individual. Might just as well put the barrel…………………………… you get the idea. Or maybe you’re so smart that you dont have a clue. which is why you should, ….. pull the tr…….
I’m not sure there are many blacks smart enough to be a serial killer. They normally get caught after the first murder/rape/robbery, etc. US prisons are predominantly filled with minorities (some would argue they commit more crimes). However, good call on the to catch a predator comment, bad call on the rest of your post.
What you meant to say was that there is a disproportionally high number of black people on welfare but in raw numbers there are more white people on welfare. The black people are still overcoming hundreds of years of institutionalized racism what’s the white people’s excuse?
gee, I hope you never need a hospice.
and if you are white and reincarnated you are RE-gifted.
This is supposed to be funny right? It’s okay to laugh if I’m Black, correct.
Every race has a percentage of people that they are not proud to claim.
White trash
Hood rats
Terrorists
Mafia
I could go on but I’ve drawn a blank….
Gifted programs are giant sponges soaking-up district resources that at one time were meant for all students. But these days, unless you are labeled as “gifted” you will NOT be offered a dynamic classroom environment, individualized instruction etc. etc. …
The children of obnoxiously unrelenting (and usually white) parents are able to enjoy the kind of education that in the 1970s was the norm for all students.
Ha! You rawk ChickaChicka!
Boo hoo
yeah blacks who kill numerous people aren’t called serial killers they are called gangbangers and drug dealers.
I love these nifty tessellation icons!!!!
The reason minority kids aren’t labelled gifted as often is because then they’re told they’re “acting white” and decide they should hide it. I think some groups do a pretty good job of keeping their own bright kids down. It’s pretty sad.
I’m not sure which is funnier, this blog, or these comments. Some people take this way to seriously.
This wouldn’t be so funny if it weren’t true!!
My extremely articulate, white, middle class son is failing all his high school classes. The administration tells me that it’s because he’s so smart he’s bored :))
Being a “genius” won’t help him when he can’t get a job flipping burgers cos employers will be suspicious of a white boy with no qualifications.
Oddly enough, his Hispanic and black friends get better grades but are just considered “dumb”
Ah !
Nothing better than white people commenting on a blog making *fun* on white people !
You all are super sarcastic white people !
It’s quite simple, KlySha: they are the WRONG kind of white people. đź‰
The guy who poops his pants all the time…….he’s gifted.
Ha ha – this is so true.
All white parents think their kids are gifted. Even more so when they are below average. This particularly annoying to me because mine actually is gifted.
Now, back to re-reading my David Sedaris book while drinking my fair trade coffee and dreaming about the sweet assists Jordan Farmer will have tonight…
It seems that over half the people who read this don’t understand it’s a joke. Seems we are experiencing a lack of gifted children from all races. I’m going to go to work and spend the next few hours pondering how I could possibly take this seriously.
what about Michael Jackson?
I’ve been in many of the G&T classes, although in my school, they’re called “EPP” in the younger grades. I was selected in for them when I was in 2nd grade. Everything was fine, except that we had to do both the HW for the regular classroom AND the EPP course (mostly English EPP). By the time I got to 4th grade, I’d gotten lazy and couldn’t manage my time. I then dropped out of English EPP so I wouldn’t have to do as much work. The next year, they had me tested for special-ed because I was simply lazy (and probably ADD, never got tested) and never turned projects (which I didn’t learn much from, anyways) on time because I was adding random effects and not focusing on the content. By the time they got me into a “modified” program, I’d already developed a work ethic and I basically wasted my special instructor’s time because I should never have been there. Now I’m is HS and doing just fine.
Hurray for white suburban schools!
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I’m white.
And I don’t get good grades. But I do think that what they are teaching at this point is pretty pointless. But no I and my parents do not think I am a genius.
First of all, at least white men do not make a habit of acting like horny neanderthals every time a semi attractive woman walks by.
Secondly, Africans enslaved themselves too. I’m not saying slavery is acceptable, but you can’t condemn us for a blemish your people have on their history too.
Also, I go to this crazy thing called college. Guess how many black people are there? Not many. Then subtract the ones who got there for sports and you’ll see how dumb white people aren’t.
By the way, how many rape charges by white girls were made erroneously? You’ve got to be kidding.
And by the way, you sound really smart with your grammatical and spelling errors. And common sense? It makes common sense to go to college and do well. But it seems that your people can’t get their shit straight.
Go ahead and call me racist, folks. I’ve got a black dad who would be happy to smack the ignorance out of this poster. This poster was not only severely insulting, he/she was severely mistaken.
sweetheart, you are a moron.
stuffblackpeoplelike- smoking crack
stuffblackpeoplelike- not washing their hair
stuffblackpeoplelike- driving way too slow
stuffblackpeoplelike- knockoff handbags
stuffblackpeoplelike- talking way too loud
stuffblackpeoplelike- chewing with their mouth open
stuffblackpeoplelike- music about sex/drugs
stuffblackpeoplelike- being inconsiderate
stuffblackpeoplelike- finding excuses to riot
stuffblackpeoplelike- rappers whose names start with lil
stuffblackpeoplelike- not using correct grammar
stuffblackpeoplelike- blaming their crap lives on not being white
and by the way, the white people i know shower way more than the blacks. black people tend to smell faintly like the zoo.
stuffyoushouldlike- killing yourself.
It’s really sad for the children, who are repeatedly put under enormous pressure, and taught to feel like it isn’t ok to just be who they are.
sexist pig
Have you ever noticed that the sort of education people will describe as adequate or commendable for other people’s children is *not* the sort that rich people give their own children? Elite private academies don’t cram forty children into each classroom, have an impoverished library, tailor their curriculum to reflect standardized tests, offer a few perfunctory foreign language classes, and leave music, art, dance, drama, and laboratory sciences out of the curriculum entirely.
This explains the mystery of why so many middle-class white children are “gifted.” It’s because their parents:
(1.) don’t want to be taxed to pay for a school system that could give every child a chance at a good education (you know, the kind of public school systems that affluent states had in the 1970s),
and
(2.) can’t afford top-notch private schools,
but
(3.) want *their* children to have a first-rate education.
Therefore, their children must be Gifted and Talented. What they mean by this is that their children deserve to have more resources devoted to their education; have better teachers, smaller class sizes, and a richer curriculum; and be protected from having to share their classrooms with disadvantaged children whose needs might slow lessons down, thereby causing the “gifted” children to become bored.
The real point isn’t that their own children are gifted. It’s that all those other children *aren’t* gifted, and thus deserve to be given a pauper’s education.
Hello, pleased to meet you. I wasn’t. 🙂
(I was home-schooled largely because the option was a 45-minute schoolbus ride each way to the nearest fourth-grade classroom, from a bus stop a mile and a half from my house. Also, it turned out that it was pretty good for me academically, too, so we kept doing it.)
Here’s the Low Down:
White people are the reason for many, if not all of our current and past nations problems.
Beginning with the slave trade. Yes, some Africans did sell slaves to the european whites. But, whites brought up the idea of using Africans. Mostly, because of how cheap they were. If it weren’t for the Africans, the whites would chosen some other group of people to do the their dirty work, because their lazy (white) asses couldn’t get out there and pick their own got damn cotton!
Blacks, Latinos and other minority groups are practically forced to live in areas that are purposely contaminated with nuclear waste (which causes cancers and various other deadly diseases, that kill mostly minorities). The public school system is designed for all minorities to fail.
Also, white people will not get the fact that black people invented 99% of the things that made this country what it is today. White people strive to make themselves feel superior, because in reality they are the most unoriginal people ever existed.
The Egyptians were BLACK! Hello! B-L-A-C-K!
No, Jesus was NOT WHITE! And, there is a greater chance of him being of african descent.
Most White men love black women, but are too afraid to admit it. White women clearly, have no problem jumping on a black man’s D**** though, having his children and try and rub it in the black women’s face “hah! I got your black man!”
In response, to the person who stated ” white men might be serial killer, but black men are gang-bangers” First of all, this is another example of how dumb clueless and under-minding white people truly are. Drugs were brought into the minority neighborhood , so that it would corrupt minority families, thus letting the white man get further ahead, even though he/she is using drugs too.
Many white people always say ” slavery, was so long ago and i wasn’t and my family didnt own slaves!”. That’s fucking BULLSHIT! Your great-great grandparents owned them, fucked them and ate their cooking!
Bottom line, WHITE PEOPLE ARE SCUM OF THE EARTH.
I don’t know exact statistics, but your sample size is too small. I’d say religious homeschoolers make up about 50% of homeschoolers (varies by state, of course.) Our kids homeschool about half the time. No, we’re not religious. But they are gifted, of course, because we’re white. Har!
Everybody thinks there little angel is gifted, the most polite, intellectual child in the world.
It is a fact of life. My little girl is better than your little girl.
Chris
http://www.thevisitingbrit.com
Wow, awesome. I’m clipping this for the teachers in my family.
make fun of the gifted all you want (I’m white, and I was never “gifted” but I respect that fact that some were) still, whenever I read about kids in gangs, or what % of high school kids drop out of school, etc., I always wonder, “where are their parents?”
there are worse things that can happen to a kid than to have parents who are sure you’re an overachiever without any evidence to back it up.
not too many of these “gifted” kids winding up in jail, I’d guess… helicopter parenting has its good side.
you fucking moron how dare you go off on white people without being willing to take the heat back about black people, don’t even get me started about inner city crime and drug statistics. and what the fuck is that noise that black people listen to called rap?
Your kid sounds like he’s “too smart” to flip burgers anyway.
I also think that this blog does not apply to anyone who happens to live in New York and is over the age of 40 (the boroughs, not the city)
EPIC FAIL
EPIC FAIL
Rule #1
Never argue with an idiot… violate this rule at your own peril.
dude, get a clue
im black/indian and im highly gifted. =D
“I’m pretty sure the last non-gifted white child was born in 1962 in Reseda, CA.”
I wasnt born in Reseda, and im a 90s kid
:^)
Carlin used to say that all children are ‘special’, yet no adults are..
This article is dead on! All of my friends back in school were freakin “gifted!” Give me a break. I remember being called “special” and “ADHD” but never “gifted.” Oh well, all those a-holes are now pharmaceuticals sales reps (uh huh, you know what that’s all about) and librarians while I practice law….what’s up now bitches?!!?!
You have issues.
Seriously?!?!?
Panther-
Get a clue, an education, and a modern outlook on life. No one is holding the minorities down, and…
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF MY ANCESTORS!!!!
But I am responsible for making sure that these things never happen again. Which, I have dedicated myself to in many ways. You need to get on board and develop an outlook that fosters understanding, tolerance, and cooperation–stop spouting ignorance.
Oh, and Africans did and STILL DO sell other Africans into slavery, so do many other ethnic groups. No group of people is free from this type of abuse.
By the way, what is the definition of under-minding?
Your point is rather undermined by the fact that right beneath your post is this ad:
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I lolled.
“black people invented 99% of the things that made this country what it is today”
orly?
How is the public education system made for minorities to fail? I’m a minority, and I’m doing quite well academically. In fact, white people would love me because I am proof that affirmative action works in the Ivy League.
Unfortunately, what holds most minorities back today are not current issues: they’re the lingering issues of the past. It’s not enough to stop the effects of racism (which, in my opinion, we have to a very high degree): we need to reverse them as well. It doesn’t help to blame the education system when the problem runs deeper than that. Improvements to the education system could possibly help, but it wasn’t designed to hold them back: it just hasn’t been improved yet to meet the specific, strong needs of those of a poor background.
Anyway, it’s not really relevant to judge a modern group based on their past–nor is it a good idea to judge an individual because of the group they belong to.
The Jews were persecuted for 2,000 years and even experienced systematic genocide, yet they don’t sit around whining about how everyone picked on them and held them down, now, do they?
If black people are so brilliant, please explain to me how comes Africa (which is almost entirely populated by blacks) is so far behind economically, financially, etc., compared to the rest of the world (which happens to be populated by whites also).
Black Panther,
That looks like a well rehearsed diatribe. Maybe if you spent half as much time reading the likes of King, you might have a broader view on things. Yes, white people made a lot of terrible mistakes, but if you isolate yourselves from us with hatred and resentment, then you’ll certainly find yourselves outside of our communities, schools and workplaces. I for one am certain that my family did not contribute to colonialism or slavery. We immigrated 200 years after slavery in this country was abolished.
Bottom line: Your hatred, your problem. If you like, we can get together over some tea and sushi and talk it over.
Larissa, that has nothing to do with it. It’s simply because of the system that has originated in those African countries. The issue mainly has to do with the leadership. Did you go to college? Did you meet any Africans? Were they typically smart? Obviously, not ALL Africans are smart, not ALL “fill in the blank” are smart, obviously. But to say that if black people are brilliant, there wouldn’t be the situation in Africa is ridiculous.
I thought they were quilts.
how about you blacks stop blamming whitey quit doing drugs and get a fuckin job you have a better chance og getting one than whitefolk cause of affimative action no more excuses
technically the Egyptians were not black…their share olive skin and look exactly like middle eastern/Muslim (aka Arabs), and if you’ve ever actually been there, you’d know that. Just cause the continent is Africa, doesn’t mean every culture there is black. And…actually people from Egypt are called Egyptians, not Africans or African-Americans. People from Morocco are called Moroccans, not African-Americans, how many black people are in Libya? Algeria? Tunisia? Gibralter? Have you ever met anyone native to those countries…I have and they weren’t “African-American” (aka Black).
You know…how would you like it if we insisted that people callus not white, but “English American”, or “Irish American” or “Italian-Romanian American” or “Anglican”, or “Dutch American”. IMHO, the only people that I feel somewhat bad/guilty about is American Indians (which ethnicity my wife belongs).
You bore me.
Hatred of all blacks by whites is racism.
Hatred of all whites by blacks is… racism.
People of no color are (or ever will be) perfect saints.
Get over it, idiot.
This is one of the big reasons why I quit being a teacher. I couldn’t deal with the overbearing parents demanding better grades for their idiot kids because they were “gifted.”
I was labeled as “gifted” starting in third grade. I don’t know why-I never worked particularly hard in school and I was only a slightly-better-than-average student in the end. Maybe I got lucky on the test or something. I didn’t reap a single reward from the gifted classes except being able to use Cure lyrics as examples of poetry because I was too lazy to go to the library.
I knew it! Not all white people are gifted! And we’ve got a glaring example right here!
At one point when I was in elementary school, they had this sort of group therapy for kids project. My teachers signed me up for it every single round because I did things like putting the head of my Barbie doll on the end of my pencil. Gifted, schmifted.
dude…you’re an idiot….
you know nothing about gifted kids…and trust me…they come in all colors — I should know as I attended Busch School for Gifted here in St Louis back in the 70’s (and yes, there is no typo…there is no “the” in Busch School For Gifted). It was the best integration of races I had ever seen for these parts and we still are in touch even now.
get a clue. better yet…I’ll buy you one.
where do I send it?
a) Anyone who refers to themselves as “highly gifted” is very likely not “gifted”, and even in the unlikely event that they are (in some area other than humility, of course), they are still an insufferable asshat.
b) If you were highly gifted, you would probably understand that the sentence “I’m pretty sure the last non-gifted white child was born in 1962 in Reseda, CA.” has NOTHING to do with gifted non-white children.
Wow. Why such a rude reply for something so inconsequential? Is something bothering you?
Dude, you are missing the point. Never once did the author say that “only white people are gifted.” Read it again. Maybe you’ll get it the next time around. I hope.
You attended “Busch School for Gifted?” (Note to other people: no online search would give you this exact name) You must be the creative type.
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Wait, we don’t? )))
Funny post, amusing if a lil misguided. Our school district uses something similar to an iq test to determine who gets into the gifted program. That’s 2% of the population, unless you’re in the Seattle area where I heard the plank has been raised higher so it’s 1% or so for them. Or, if you score in the top 2 to 5% on an achievement test, you can get in as well. Not a hundred percent by a long shot. At any rate, in high school the gifted classes are replaced by the honor and AP system and everyone can get into those on teachers’ recommendations, so the point is kinda moot. The post had me worked up because I believe the gifted education is one of the best benefits American public schools have to offer – giving the smarter students a challenge they need even if their parents cannot afford to send them to prep schools. We have kids from middle-class families of all ethnicities and races in our district’s gifted classes.
Also, good news for the author, the gifted ed is now on its way out – No Child Left Behind has been effectively killing it. The schools have to spend so much effort training kids for standardized tests that most districts have no money left for gifted education anymore. Hooray? or something…
typo up there. s/b “top 2 or 5%”, of course. i just don’t remember which one.
I was in our school’s gifted class. We watched “Muzzy en Espanol” and played Where in the USA is Carmen San Diego. We didn’t have to take handwriting and because of that, all six of us suck at writing in cursive to this day. I was the only Black child and the only female, which wasn’t bad because I’m still friends with those guys today.
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I live in Canada and it seems we have a bit of a different definition of gifted here. It has to do with intelligence as well as thought patterns. In order to be educated in a gifted program, a child (or teen) must go through a psychological evaluation to determine if their IQ is high enough and if they fit the psychological profile. There are also schools and programs for kids that are brilliant in science, math, art, etc… I’ve always thought that “gifted” also denotes a different way of thinking as well.
hahaha
HAHAHA! Damn, I was in the gifted program for 10 years and I came out with a nice bong collection and a healthy disrespect for authority and structure. It’s entirely true that there are two distinct types of gifted thinkers:
Really sharp kids who try hard.
AND
Even sharper kids who don’t try at all, become demotivated and have existential crises at age 10 because they start to grapple with truths they are not prepared for.
The first kind don’t need any help, as their path is clear to them and they get all the scholarships and acclaim anyways. The second kind need a lot of help, usually in the form of relaxing/mind expanding drugs and books written by weird alchoholic old men. (Thompson, Vonnegut, etc) If you’re in the second group you know exactly what I’m talking about.
i am white child in accelerated program at high school. while most people in program are not white, half of the white children not in the program claim they should be in it, then offer excuse. it kinda pisses me off because half of the people claiming they should be in the program are really damn stupid and obnoxious.
My mom vehemently defended me against recommendations to put me on drugs when I was a kid, but I also have a 165 IQ…
Learn 2 sarcasm.
This is such a wry sarcastic blog that I have to love it. I forwarded the gifted childred page to my close friends. It is friggin hilarious!
And then there’s the white people that hate gifted children. Hell, even stupid kids think they know more than you, so gifted kids could be doubly annoying, like asian hybrids right? 🙂
I was in a “gifted” program in 2nd and 3rd grades and then a magnet school for 4th-6th grades, a gifted program in 7th and 8th grade and then honors and AP courses in high school…and I still found this section hilarious. The author is not discrediting gifted education programs, but rather poking fun at the white people who refuse to admit that their children should be medicated or are not so bright. All parents would like to believe their children are “gifted.”
Oh, there’s another thing that white people love–being medicated.
yeah….
this is true somewhat…
but very funny
I know I am smart but I am to lazy to try to do my work or to pay attention in school…I sleep mainly.
but I stoped because my teachers said I was smart because I got 100% on the test a lot and so….I changed and started to do the work…
still very boring….
Funny you should bring that up. The Europeans used Africa for years colonizing most of it so it could have greater resources than Europe could muster. So, Europe left the land rather depleted and did little for the people there as they were regarded as savages? Now what might that do to an entire continent under that kind of rule?
European imperialism wreaked havoc around the globe. Now that you know that, don’t forget it.
Satire is beyond most people.
You are amazing and great. Well done.
well aren’t you just god’s little gift from heaven
HAHA! THIS IS SOOO TRUE. YOU KNOW WHAT? SOME KIDS WHO WERE AT MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GOT INTO G.A.T.E. AND DO YOU KNOW WHO THEY WERE??? The were retarded kids, and apparently smarter.
Haha, I was in GATE.
Ha, I was in GATE too.
White people love to feel superiour.
ya, I’m another kid who was in GATE. This post was dead on, especially the part about drug knowledge.
Unfortunately I never really got treated like I was better than people because I sucked at school, couldn’t pay attention, etc. my mom always saw through that, I guess she’s not that white.
There’s that troublesome Asian factor with the damn mathematical ant mind. But still, we have our geniuses, which I’m not sure they have in the same number actual high-end of the IQ continuum or they are just averagely smarter than us. More creative AND smarter than us as a whole? No way. Of course we are ‘gifted’ , ha. Duh. I mean, come on- as compared to uh . some umm “underprivileged socio blah blah, the tests are flawed and made for clander white people, insert PC invalidation of test results here”.. ..umm.. oh never mind.
Now, compared to each OTHER, we’re most certainly NOT all gifted. But by group, yeah, of course, all of us are, because as a group we are up there mentally. We have to stop those people trying to get gorillas to read, like that silly book, KoKo’s kitten. Now some of the pictures fro that book are dang funny. I feel bad for the kitten though- some challenged person let the kitten escape and it got run over. Anyone remember what I’m talking about? Gorillas don’t read, don’t speak much either. What’s with White people and all our Good Intentions. You know that they say about that.
Well, back to paving the road-
somebody is jealous
Burgers don’t need flipping anymore. Some brilliant asian engineer developed a rack system that automatically flips burgers–now in most fast-food joints. So you’re son will not have to face that problem.
He’ll be fine.
LMAO I was in GATE too
I’m not white though đź€
…MEXICAN ^^
At age 9, I would have settled for college level books like the ones I read at home.
Yeah, have you read Arthur Jensen’s rebuttal? He absolutely destroys Gould’s straw man argument.
right, because it’s so easy to overvalue your children…
How stressfull is it to spend every day doing busy-work and learning nothing while being surrounded by people you can’t relate to, and who can’t relate to you?
The answer is: Karl Rove. <– He’s smart, but he understands how stupid people think. As for Bush; it’s funny that the stupid majority feels the need to elect one of their own.
^^^ Gifted and talented classes exist so that guys like this grow up to be productive emotionally healthy members of society. This has nothing to do with anyone trying to feel like they are better than anyone else.
Right because Thomas Edison was just dumb, and that’s why he did so poorly in school.
I’m gifted, my wife is gifted, and all of my children are gifted. So there! Big fuckin’ deal. I still have to work to make a living.
Autistics have made significant contributions to society, so I think it’s benifical to have at least a few of them, and don’t see why we should dislike them.
Right, people don’t become intelligent because of genetic factors and education; just like they don’t become tall because of genetic factors and diet, or good athletes because of genetic factors and coaching.
It’s all achieved through the oppression of others, just like wealth and good looks are.
Case in point
Copelandia cyanescens
Copelandia mexicana
Psilocybe australiana
Psilocybe caerulipes
Psilocybe carbonaria
Psilocybe chiapanensis
Psilocybe columbiana
Psilocybe cubensis
Psilocybe cyanescens
Psilocybe indica
Psilocybe mexicana
Psilocybe subcubensis
Some of my recommended strains to all my fellow time travellers who never graduated high school 🙂
Haha, that is surprisingly true. However, shouldn’t you take into account that some white children actually ARE gifted?
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like all of india. it’s all gifted
amen to that!!!
Could you please be more careful?
My little Chipper practically invented the internet and if he came across your post which seems to be implying what I think it’s implying, it could be detrimental to his self worth as a gifted child.
Thank you.
He did. Check out the third paragraph.
indeed.
^^^^^ most likely a gifted student ironically, this is our humor… this is how we deal with our existential anxieties and the stupidity of others. fluffernutter poopdecks.
omg yes.
yes’m.
it has somehow, over some great span of time, morphed into the aggressive/self loathing demeanor entwining ceratain facets of the entertainment industry; to be acted out by many a comedian, in an entertaining yet lucrative manner.
far too simple a definition of a very complex series of interrelating factors and events.
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yeah i got shoved into G.A.T.E.
all i got was a good idea of what snobberism is!
I am gifted 🙂
I teach “gifted” children. my school district sets the guidelines for determining which children are gifted and it is complete BS. The goal is to have 20% of the kids identified as gifted, which is a joke in itself. There are plenty of white and black parents who are determined that their kids are gifted. Of the 90 “gifted” kids at my school, I’d say that maybe 15 are genuinely gifted. The rest are what we used to call “above average.” It’s usually the rich white parents who are fixated on giftedness, but it’s increasingly common among black families too.
I know many gifted cab drivers and many ungifted owners of large corporations. I matters little if you are gifted. It matters more if you have the “fire in the belly”. You can always hire the “gifted” ones to do your bidding. This is why we need a government that does not get in the way of our way of life. We created an enviroment of greatness by keeping the government to a minimum.
i wanna be gifted…like special ed gifted
People put to much into the fact that their child is “gifted” when in all reality, that is how most kids are, it is the “norm”. People need to stop thinking their kids or themselves are better than other people and start teaching their children that it is okay to be equal to someone else. I have a one year old and I am going to teach him the value of not trying to be better than others or always thinking he needs to compete with other to have or do things better. Humans already have a natural competitive nature, we, as parents, do not need to add to it.
Do adoptive white parents have “re-gifted” children?
Nice.
I’m too perfect while simultaneously being too bored with school to respond to this post.
That is all.
i live in a pretty affluent suberb in philadelphia and i all i ever hear parents talk about it how fucking smart their kids are. ooo, little tommy’s in the gifted program at school- guess he is going to be the one to cure cancer.
White people go to law school like Asians go to computer-something school. Except Law is an age old profession and computer skills will become useless when society collapses.
Mozart was a gifted child. Today’s snot producers staring zombielike at Little Einstein are not Einsteins.
If society “collapses”, _every_ profession will become useless. Except hunting and foraging.
The problem is that if your kid is ACTUALLY gifted, pretending like they’re not won’t make it go away though a popular misconception in modern education is that it will. Actual gifted kids don’t try to learn a years worth of material in a couple of months so that they can sit at school bored for the rest of the year… that’s just how their brains work. The trick is to meet their needs while teaching them humility and respect for human differences.
Some parents are so competitive when it comes to their kids. I hate it when mums try and be all like “my kid was walking at 6 months toilet trained at 1 and …..” blah
this site is badass. im white, and i think its hilarious. i dont agree with ALL of it. usually the first statement is true, but once it get “explained” it gets less true. sorry guys. maybe im wrong though. im not an adult, so i dont know what they talk about when im not around. but i do listen to adult conversations quite frequently, and, idk. anyways, im “gifted” my iq is over 130, which by definition is like “superior intelligence” or some shit. so the reason i told u all of that is this: even though i am all that, my parents try to tell me im just like everyone else. that im not special at all. so maybe they just arent white. lmao
….and black youth are to cool to go to school.
how are those drop-out rate statistics goin’ for you blacks?
pretty sure the brothers got it all goin on w/ respect to drug
dealing know-how, over the white kids.
the ‘dumbing-down’ of America is because the smart kids have been cobbled by the stupid ones.
Don’t forget the need for satirical writers. And of course prostitutes.
Because you are like everyone else, you are human.
i hate people like you
Dude, your IQ isn’t 130. I don’t know if you took one of those bullshit internet tests that are designed to trick you into believing you’re smarter than you really are or what, but I think you fit the site’s definition in that you like to believe that you are a gifted child.
Funny! Perhaps change the title to “Gifted” parents instead of “gifted” children.
I got this email from Jonas’ mother:
Hello Family,
We hope that you are all doing well. The kids are really looking forward to seeing all of the Toronto gang soon (just 10 days to go!). Mark and I are looking forward to our break as well.
Just wanted to give you an update concerning Jonas.
A couple of weeks ago, the principal of the kids’ school brought to our attention what we had already suspected: Jonas is precocious. We were encouraged to have him tested to help to inform the school’s thinking about how to best help him.
We followed the school’s advice and Jonas had a series of 3 meetings with a pediatric neuropsychologist over the last couple weeks. His intellectual intelligence was tested using the KABC-II (Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children), one of 3 standard international tests for children of between 3 and 12. He really enjoyed the experience (its mostly a bunch of games) and had a good rapport with Laetitia, the psych. We found out that he is ambidextrous! He did the test in French.
We are still waiting for the detailed report on the test (which we will receive tomorrow), but we were already able to get the IQ score. Jonas’ IQ has been evaluated as 144. This places him in the top 99.7th percentile (the average IQ is 100 and Einstein’s was 160). According to most researchers, Jonas’ IQ would be considered “very superior” or “genius/near genius”.
Based on their observations over the past 3 years and the results of the test, the school has decided to advance Jonas 1 year (from JK to SK). His teacher informed us that he is intellectually capable of advancing to 1st grade right now, but she thought that emotionally/socially it would be a mistake. She did recommend that we enrol him in another language (Chinese or Japanese) and music. He already plays soccer one per week and is actually being advanced a year in that as well come January.
So, as of January, Jonas will be in SK. He will be able to move back and forth between his new and old classes and he will actually have one of his former teachers from last year who is wonderful. He knows all the kids in the class and actually does some work with them already.
We wanted to let you all know about this for a few reasons:
First, you are all a part of the team that is raising him and we think it is important for you to know as much about him as we do. We are told that, based on his IQ, he does not think the way that most children do (surprise, surprise) and this will take some adjusting to.
Second, this is a family of very bright children, and at some point you may decide to have your kid(s) tested so we wanted to share our experience (which has been quite positive).
Third, we will not be with Jonas throughout the holidays and so it will largely fall to you to help get him excited about the idea of moving to SK.
Malachai is taking the news quite well, though he seems to feel a bit competitive and has vowed to improve his own performance. He will probably be tested in the winter as well. We are trying to explain to him that this news is nothing to feel inadequate about and that his has an incredible amount of talent.
Talk to you soon, and let us know if you any questions about any of this.
Ahahahah.
I was in the Gifted program.
It’s hilarious. They did a study that proved it has nothing to do with the kids, the gifted programs are just how classes should be taught.
That’s so obnoxious. I hate it when parents send crap like that to me or tell me about it. When are you going to realize i don’t care about your kids? And that letter is ridiculously long. She couldn’t have just said “oh, the school said my son is gifted.”
Also, the poor little brother is going to develop an inferiority complex.
AWESOME! My IQ is 149 – I cannot wait to quit my job and start working on the next new scientific breakthrough using my “very superior” or “genius/near genius” brain! Wait a minute – I am only a lowly sales person…I guess I’ll stick with using my intelligence to swindle every last penny out of my unsuspecting clients. This is REALLY STUPID!
If a child is truly gifted it is obvious to everyone around her whereas if a parent has to tell everyone how smart the child is, guess what? Let’s face it cream rises to the top.
If a child is truly gifted it is obvious to everyone around her whereas if a parent has to tell everyone how smart the child is, guess what? Let’s face it cream rises to the top.
Not only are my kids gifted, but they are God’s gift to the world.
As a teenager who has gone to “gifted” schools for her whole life, I completely agree with this post. Although most children are “gifted” in some way, they are not always intellectual, and they don’t necessarily belong in an academically advanced school.
However, some kids *are* “gifted”. I’m a smart person. I could read at age two without my parents teaching me, I tested into one of the top schools, I have won academic competitions, and most importantly, I know I’m not nearly as smart as some of my friends. Gifted programs should not be overlooked, as they alleviate boredom that might cause high schoolers to drop out.
And I know plenty of white kids (I am white, although my school is very diverse) who aren’t considered “gifted”. However, I have never met an Asian teenager who is not either naturally intelligent or very studious. So…where’s the “Stuff Asian People Like” blog?
I was dying when I read this post. I hear stuff like this all the time about white people and their kids. Also, I agree it has nothing to do with the kids. I have never been in a gifted program (I’m black), but I do have a lot of honors and AP classes. My mother doesn’t care if I am in a gifted program–she cares more about if I am doing well in school.
So to summarize Natalie’s point; “All kids who are labelled gifted are not actually gifted, except for me. I was labelled gifted and I’m a genius. Sure, I know people who are smarter then me, but the fact that I admit it shows I’m humble, and being humble makes me even more gifted–somehow. Also, Asian sterotypes are totally true.”
Ok, Einstein, whatever you say.
I’m white, I was put in a “gifted” program in my stereotypical suburban high school. It seems to me, “gifted” programs existed so that rich white doctor/lawyer parents could brag about their kids. A “gifted” program is also a good way to justify bragging about how freaking naturally intelligent you are. Because your “innate” intelligence has nothing to do with all of those head start programs, English as a first language, well staffed schools with small classes, or access to better educations resources (ex: textbooks and new computers).
Oh, gawd… reminds me of a story my mom told me about when I started school (yup, I was one of those capital-G gifted kids): a teacher friend of hers pulled her aide and said: “Look, don’t go in the first day and tell them Kelly’s gifted–they hear that from ALL the parents about ALL the kids. Just wait a couple weeks, let them find out for themselves, THEN call.”
Apparently mom took their advice, and when she did call, the teacher was all like, “Thank God! She’s already read through her textbooks! Help!”
(Yeah, ya see what I did there? Using an ostensibly comic story to lay a brag on myself? Cos, you know, it’s not really bragging if you’re all ironic about it. /Damn/ I’m good…)
Oh snap!
Ha ha this blog is funny. I was in the gifted program when I was a kid and I’m black. Incidentally I’ll be going to law school soon. I know my parents loved and was proud that I was in this program as was my younger sister. I have to agree with one of the posters who said the gifted programs do promote competition and some of the high schools that are really only for gifted children promote sometimes “unhealthy competition”.
Oh yes!
im the 2nd type of gifted kid! 20 and smokez da bongzzzz AND lights dogs on fire!!! oya mike vick’n it baby!
I was gifted once.
Lol… okay some of these posts are reaching… but this one is hilarious. I grew up in a rural area and there was no such thing as “gifted” programs… and now (in the city) I meet kids who are just average and they go on about “g and t” – right….
Don’t get it…
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Wow, my white genes must be really strong! My daughter is super smart, gifted, gets straight A’s, edits the yearbook, gets a total free ride everywhere she goes, she is 17 and spending her senior year in Germany, thats how cool she is( traveling 🉠and the kicker… SHE is only 1/2 white!!! it doesnt even show, she looks all native, weird. Must be my strong elite German genes doin their magic! woo hoo
Meh, this reminds me of that one Everybody Loves Raymond episode with the really annoying kid who is hyperactive and picks on Ray. To his parents, he is just “being creative ad expressing himself.”
i got a 2380 SAT, which is the 99.94th percentile, and i’m white. but here’s what i’m willing to admit: I did a lot of SAT practice, I’ve always read a lot, and I’m a sick test taker, BUT I’m not gifted! I go to Dartmouth now, and there are SO MANY douchebags here who have been told that they special for their entire lives. i wanna see them show up to job interviews and just expect to get hired because they’re so special.
We refused to arrange a “gifted” program for our son, thinking he’ll do just fine in a regular class;we did not want to be stuck up. Also, we were told by the head of the fancy Private school in NYC that “all our students are gifted”. The result? Our son started to read at 3, at 4 he was improvising on a piano and knew periodic table of elements by heart, including the atomic weight, etc. He built majestic cities out of legos, drew and painted like someone twice his age. He was found to have perfect pitch, memorized “Lacrimosa” part from Mozart’s requiem. When he entered kindergarten of a private Manhattan school, which assured us that “all students here are gifted”, our child had been playing piano and cello with sheer musicality, could multiply and divide, solve word problems with 3 steps, read 2 parts of Harry Potter, enjoyed talking about differences between Ravel and Debussy musical languages.. And what? He was miserable in that kindergarten. He asked me why the books that were read by the teachers had so little text on each page, why children take so long to answer the easiest ever questions, why the teachers like to control everything, etc.
It was worst experience ever, my child got depressed and started to act out in the school– I was sent to the psychologist…
Accelerated education is really necessary sometimes, you know…
kill yourself
Your daughter probably sucks a lot of dick.
We can only hope!
Aren’t you special!!! You live entirely through your child!! Please learn parts of speech, like proper nouns…..
Lacrimosa for a kindergartener is just too precious, considering it is at least four-part harmony!!!
So you taught your kid color theory….wow! Debussy and Ravel!!!
Easiest questions ever= standard Eng. word order, dear.
tell me, why do you like to control everything, silly?
Mom of two gifted girls….public school students in Indiana……..
thanks for your corrections of my poor English, I am still working on it, after all it’s my fourth language.
I am not living through my child at all, I am “living with him”. And, of course, I take a decent amount of control over his life, as I monitor his diet, health, growth, etc. He is only 9. I live my own life that has a busy schedule, yet my children and my husband come first, naturally.
Why all the fuss, anyway? Your comment to my post is beyond the point, in fact. I wrote about my support for gifted programs and explained my position with a personal example.
Go ahead, and read some literature, if you have not done so up to date as a Mom to 2 gifted girls. You should know that a child with IQ of 130-135 can manage just fine in a mainstream class, while a child (or adult) with IQ over 150 can’t handle the mainstream learning environment, it’s too wide of a gap. By the way, I did not spend hours/weeks teaching my child color theory– as soon as he was able to read he taught himself most of the things, and music requires just listening and experimentation. can’t you relate?
Gifted as your child may be, you’re being stuck-up when you plaster your kid’s accomplishments all over the Internet. I bet you’re one of those parents who tells cashiers in stores what Junior learned today.
We know you love your kid. That’s a given or at least should be; it makes the news when a parent rejects their kid. But no one else does, and it’s irritating as hell when you and five million other proud parents feel that it’s their duty from God to tell as many people the Good News – Little Jimmy knows Mozart! It makes you annoying, and it makes us lesser mortals feel less disposed toward your kid, who didn’t actually do anything wrong! By bragging about his accomplishments, you’re actually working against your kid’s success.
Your kid is unique – just like every other kid.
I have never had a kid, as I’m 17, so I simply speak from irritation at all the parents who put the “Honors Student at _____” bumper sticker on their car. Whoop-de-freakin’-doo.
I was never in a gifted program, although I could read from a reasonably early age. My parents probably had a huge list of the “Amazing Things That Mike Did” that they rattled off to anyone unfortunate enough to be near them for a protracted period of time. Guess how much of a benefit the Huge List gave to my success in life? Zero; in fact, it had a negative impact. I became an entitled kid who was a winner because Mommy said so. It didn’t matter that I was a friendless jerk who said “I’m better than you” because my parents said, “You’re smart, you’re athletic, you’re oh-so-talented.” It’s crap. It took me a long time to realize that I was entitled to nothing, and that I had a lot of learning to do about things that had nothing to do with the stuff I was learning in my zillion AP classes. As it turns out, my honors programs didn’t matter at all; I’m joining the service, and one of the reasons why I am doing it is to get away from the control of my parents. If I went to college, I’d still be in their control, as they’d be paying for it.
You’re playing games with your kid, and yes, you’re living through him. These aren’t signs of things to come; they’re just flukes. Kids memorize random crap. Your kid likes music and chemistry; I liked astronomy. I memorized the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and could tell you the periapsis, apoapsis, orbital period, and inclination of each one. I could also rattle off the capital of every state and half of the countries. Did it mean I was smart? Hell no. It meant I could read and that I could look a poster for a few hours and recall what was on it in my oh-so-cute precocious voice. Today, I couldn’t tell you a single one, mostly because it doesn’t mean anything. Anyone can consume and puke up information. Intelligence is what you do with that knowledge.
As for “majestic Lego cities,” unless his city is equal to or exceeding the complexity of this, http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/index.html, I’m not impressed. Why? Because anyone can make a Lego city with enough time. Hell, I made one of those humongous K’nex roller coasters that was bigger than I was. Did it mean I was a genius? Sure, if following a book of basic directions makes you one. Genius is doing something that no one else can do, and I’d bet anything that your kid is not the first to make a Lego city in preschool.
I’m sorry for being an ass, but it really bugs me when I see a future version of myself in the making. Please, don’t make your kid special. It’s just not worth the temporary ego trip. Right now, my parents are asking themselves, “What did we do wrong?” Everything, Mom. Everything starting from when I was a dinky little brat who knew the capital of Chad. I’d have been a lot better off if my parents had told me, “You’re nobody special. You’re a kid from a middle-class family who is smarter than average. Go make something of yourself, and then you’ll be special.”
To the kid joining the service, well said and good luck.
To Lola, your son sounds quite ambitious but he will lose out on being a kid if he’s “accelerated” in every way. If he’s not in a normal school setting at least make him play sports.
I’m totally for letting kids explore their interests, be they in sports, art, music, etc… but when the parents sign little Bobby or Susie up for the Junior Olympics because they enjoy shooting their plastic bow and arrow or send them to Broadway auditions because they like watching musicals, they’re taking it way too far. This is just setting them up for failure. So is letting them go to Montessori schools that don’t teach phonetics, PIE classes that don’t administer tests, so on and so forth, because in real life there WILL BE some kind of system that they will have to deal with.
Okay, so maybe I’m just another high aptitude, public school-educated mainstreamer who is upset about his lack of a “gifted” childhood full of tennis lessons, organic rice cakes, and classical piano lessons. Ha. Nah, I’ve just seen too many people, both friends and family members, stunt their children’s normal social and emotional development by living vicariously through them and trying to sequester them into the “gifted” world.
I taught high school in a “white suburban” community as late as 2007. Everyday I saw the effects of parents who thought their children were gifted.
The children who were pushed beyond their abilities or willingness usually collapsed under the pressure of honors/AP classes and sometimes looked for the easy way out like cheating/plagiarism (notice I wrote “sometimes,” not always). There was even a young man who committed suicide from the school at which I taught because of the disappointment he felt he was to his parents.
Or, they were told from an early age that they were gifted and had an air of entitlement about them and could do no wrong.
Having just had my first child in May, of course I think she is special. However, with my multiple years of teaching experience under my belt, I hope I can find the happy medium of prodding my child to explore her interests and excel in school and not pressure her to make straight As in high school in weighted classes so that she’ll get a full ride to college so mommy and daddy don’t have to go into debt to get her through college.
Every child is gifted in some way. However, very few are truly exceptionally “gifted” in the classic sense of the word as it refers to abilities.
Based on my teaching experience, Clander was right on the money when he wrote this blog.
To Billy Mack,
hi, it is rather easy to misinterpret any post, isnt it?
if you are having in mind my original post, then, where did you get any hints that we sign up our child for Broadway audtions/tennis lessons (not necessarily in literal sense)? I do see a lot of parents who do enroll their kids in every possible activity, that often changes every semester. Some parents are looking for a special talent, and I have seen stage mothers, etc. None applies to us. I believe that if a child expresses strong desires about a certain activity, that’s the one the parent can be helpful with by encouraging and supporting. (Our child likes only one type of sport and will not even try anything new, so he was left alone) However, as I can really speak only about musical education with some confidence, the very top concert instrumentalists from the past and present did not even have a choice to select an instrument they wanted to play. Parents chose it for them and insured practice hours to be regular, steady and supervised. The debate between nature and nurture is not over. Take for instance, Rostislav Rostropovich, a cellist (later conductor as well). Number one in the world. Do you think it was just talent? The contemporary witnesses (including neighbors) reported hours of practicing on open strings, hours! That kind of discipline can be only developed since early childhood. Yo Yo Ma’s mother used to lock him in a closet without lights and refusing to give him food until he did his homework (let it be 5 measures or 5 pages). He was actually beaten by his mother. Everyone read or heard about tortures of Paganini by his father, or Beethoven’s drinking hard father, who made his son practice at 2 am. Mozart’s father was the first most well-known “pushy”, “abusive” parent, a stage father, who did not let his son go to school, and homeschooled W.A. Mozart, so he won’t lose practice time.. Do you know how many hours Joshua Bell practiced? Unless one is a professional musician or from a family or concert performing musicians, people usually live with misconceptions forever.. Now, of course, after reading the above, a person with average attention span will rush to a conclusion that the training methods I described are the ones I apply on our child with rigor. Well, that’s not the case. First of all, I work 5 days a week until 6 pm— all the mothers of future musical virtuosi eventually give up their day jobs, secondly, our child does not want to be a concert instrumentalist– so he is not pushed into it. However, the child wants to learn to play the musical instrument, so practices on his own, 2-3 hours daily. by himself, just like he does his homework before i get home.
OK.
So let me get this straight.
1) Woman posts HER opinion on internet in regards to a forum…where everyone ELSE posts their opinion because it’s encouraged.
Of course, everyone else’s is infinitely better. If they yell their opinion louder with an argument that has nothing to do with the point, they believe they “win.”
Congrats. You win the internet.
2) Everyone else goes off because they don’t want to hear how well someone else’s child does and flat out insults them, like a typical American. This is instead of discussing the possible effects of “gifted children”, instead of personal attacks.
3) everyone forgets they’re on a comedy website and begins their own Jihad on everyone else and flames, because that is the social norm.
It becomes apparent that said people have no real power in life and come on the “interwebz” to feel as though their opinions mean something, unlike real life.
4) 17 year old kid who is still angsty and in the stage of “knowing it all” goes off on a rant about how a parent should and shouldn’t behave when he, himself, still lives with a mommy and daddy who he is angry at.
Angsty McGee seems to have a lot of issues at feeling socially awkward which sounds like a mixture of being in his age group and from truly being gifted, assuming what he said is true. Again, he knows it all and makes it a POINT to put down those with life experience because he BELIEVES he is gifted and higher than everyone else, though he denies it.
5) More lurkers and morons post inappropriate things unrelated in every way, trying to feel like a keyboard warrior.
Fact: John is a sad fellow. Really. This is all he does on the “intar tubes” feeling sorry for himself outside of the ‘net. (Pssst, john! Being a dick and acting like you’re “the shit” on a forum about a stupid topic doesn’t compensate for the size of your e-penis!)
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Has ANYONE ever taken an actual science course on human brain development or children’s psych or anything like that before posting how things ARE, rather than question and learn what they could be?
Fact: There is such a thing as “gifted.” All this means is that the person matured in a different way than his/her peers. They may have a higher IQ which is heavily influenced by environment, while natural ability is based on genetics.
These children TRULY cannot fit in or feel at ease in a “normal” school setting, where others are of different interests, levels, etc. They develop an inferiority complex at times (Mr. Teen Spirit up there) because they feel they cannot just be like everyone else. Everyone wants to feel accepted. They are often shunned by peers, though told they are special by adults.
They bond with children more frequently by nature, so it seems the adults are simply lying.
In the end, yes. Children should do sports. And you can put down arts and sports at a higher level all you want. But maybe you should be open minded, question, think, and inquire before stating facts that cannot be supported or proven wrong as they are opinion.
Those programs help further stimulate them. And, if nurtured correctly, these children can be successful. They can be higher on the food chain than others. While they may be considered “geniuses” in America, it is the standard to be pushed to limits in places like Japan…who often surpasses America in MANY ways, including education. No, don’t go into suicides. Different CULTURE, not cause.
Anyway, the morons who could never be mistaken for gifted (despite grade-inflation and claiming “He’s just too smart!”) will post to this and put it down, covering their ears and yelling “I can’t hear you! I’m RIGHT NOT YOU!”.
Enjoy.
Having antisocial tendencies such as Asperger’s Syndrome can be very beneficial in some careers, most notably tenure track university professors. However, between the ages ~12 and 18 you must guard against the child becoming a goth personality, because this will ultimately lead to the child going on a school shooting rampage.
Hmmm. I have two teenaged children who actually test in the gifted range–they aren’t “gifted” just on my say-so. While I want them to achieve to meet their potential, I also want them to be able to interact well with people of all ability levels.
Their giftedness is not a reason or excuse for their being unable to relate to the range of people we contact every day. How many people actually live their lives in a little bubble, surrounded only by people like them? To that end, I don’t shelter them, require them to pursue only “smart” interests, or pretend everything they do is great and perfect when it is not.
perhaps it’s more important to teach, encourage, and model kindness- if you want your child to really excel in this world…
Both of my kids are gifted and I’ve done my best to model discouragement and meanness to them. đź‰
I love giving children as gifts! They really are the gift that keeps on giving……. and so functional too….. they can do the dishes, mow the lawn, paint the house, do the laundry and other chores…. and they are tax deductions….. I grown my children in the basement- keeps them real white.
OMG Sarah I love you.
Are all the people posting here white? This is fascinating. So, you think learning your history, your music, your art, your business models, etc., makes you special — or dare I say — gifted?
Gifted is having to learn something from a perspective that doesn’t even remotely represent reality. White people really aren’t the dominant species in the world, as quiet as it’s kept.
Wow! Thank God for this site. It really gives me insight into how you all think. My kids won’t even need affirmative action with all I’ve learned today.
Conversely, nothing is quite as socially appalling as ‘re-gifted’ children. It’s a shock to have someone give a perfectly good child back to you a year later thinking you wouldn’t remember the little rascal.
I was very smart when I came to America and they thought I was “gifted”. They put me in one of thosee classes and when I came, all the blue-eyed, blonde-haired spoiled brats looked at me in disgust. Why is a foreigner here? They’re all stupid because they’re not from here!
Idiots.
I am now a smart-alecky genius who now scoffs in their faces and pounds them into the dirt while I walk away and they cry, smearing their mascara and eyeliner in their all-to-tight Hollister rags.
That felt good to get off my chest.
I have to admit my childrens are gifted.
At Christmas and on their b-day.
That makes them twice gifted.
I’m proud.
I have to admit my childrens are gifted.
At Christmas and on their b-day.
That makes them twice gifted.
To J
You just completel missed the point. The poster is making fun of everyone who thinks their kids are gifted.
It is actually hysterically funny if you know people like this.
Since I have ordinary children with weird quirks, I’m laughing my head off.
I’m sorry Asians are right up there with the white people on this one.
Damn this is a funny blog. And here goes —
I was “gifted” before it became cool to be gifted (I’m in my mid-forties now). I have an IQ of 145, and worked my ass off, so I managed to graduate summa cum laude from college and made Phi Beta Kappa. (I worked my way through college, by the way, just in case anybody wants to assume I got a free ride of any kind. No scholarships for me, because I was kinda lazy in high school).
My kids are gifted. Yeah, gifted. All three have IQ’s right around 140. I had them all tested before entering public school so there would never be a problem getting them placed in the gifted programs. Because an earlier poster was right, gifted programs are taught the way all children should be taught.
The oldest was her high school valedictorian as well as captain of two sports teams. And she’s not a pain in the ass, she’s wildly popular, she’s a wild party girl and she’s paying her own way through college (third year now). At the tender age of 20 she’s earned grants to live and work in other countries. She’s bilingual, she’s getting ready to do something with her life, and I’m really enjoying watching her blossom.
The twins are both in magnet programs at different high schools. One is in the IB program, the other is in an engineering program. They are both on sports teams, and active in Girl Scouts. They are two of the nicest people I have ever known, and they have some of the nicest friends anyone could ever ask for.
How did this happen? Am I really gifted? Am I really a great parent?
Well, yes. Yes I am. Suck on that for a while!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
Truthfully, I’ve got my shortcomings and I know what they are. My kids have their own albatrosses and as young adults they are starting to really understand what will hold them back if they don’t act now. Life has never been easy and I assume that it never will be.
Here’s what I hope I’ve taught my kids: Life’s short. Have fun. Work hard, play hard. Enjoy the fruits of your labor. Love your family.
If they get that from me, I’ve accomplished what I set out to do in life. That’s the real gift I hope my kids get.
Oh So True, although…
You didn’t even mention white peoples’ obsession with their childrens’ looks. White people always have beautiful children who should model from the moment they are birthed. We do have a nasty habit of gossiping about other white peoples’ children however. We can’t wait to insult a newborn just seconds after the proud parent leaves with pictures in tow. “I think it had a tail!” or “Ugh, did you see how misshapen it’s head was?” Comments like these are immediatly followed by “I’m so lucky that MY child doesn’t look like that.” and “MY son is going to be such a heart breaker when he gets older!” Not only are our children always gifted in brains but in form as well. As a cardinal rule though, children from other ethnicities are always adorable and therefore are completely off limits for making snide comments- We’re critical of other white peoples’ children only.
A classic suburbanite white person trait. Everyone is special! They cant help but to bullshit themselves with political correctness! Johnny isnt handicapped……he is mentally, physically, audibly, visually, directionally cross impaired! Hell, he is down right handi-capable! He graduated magna cum laude in his special ed class!
My god, when does it stop……
To Battery Man.
That’s very stereotypical thinking on your part. Do you have so much confidence in your abilities that simply reading about a “social issue” you can diagnose someone with psychiatric/neurological disorder? Why not, PDD has been in fashion for the past 10 years. Thanks for the free diagnosis, but it is not there.
Asperger’s syndrome has nothing to do with the above situation. There is no PDD here, and no communication/social issues that can fit this particular DSM profile. The opposite was true. The child was always tuned in other people’s moods, feelings and body language–that made it ever more painful. He knew why he did not fit in, because he fit in just fine with the children who were 1.5 -2 times older. They got his jokes and they read the same books and listened to the same music.
I’m sorry, but I do have gifted children and they are not a bed of roses. My youngest son is what is called profoundly gifted: set up his own yahoo account when he was 5, read at age 3. A kid like this does not fit into the school system and he actually does not like any kids his own age because he can’t relate to them. Some kids truly are different, and have valid exceptional needs. My son can debate me like an adult, has a brain that works like lightning and is incredibly active. He can’t stand it if he is not learning something new. His brain just goes that fast. School can really be a punishment to kids like this. I know that many parents used the gifted label incorrectly, but that doesn’t nullify the fact that there are truly gifted kids out there.
This reminds me of the Cheetos commerical with the obnoxious soccer mom talking about her genius son and how he is learning Chinese. HAHAHA
I am an African American woman and I was placed in a gifted program at an early age. I was high school valedictorian. I love this book and, even more, I love the fact that opening comments on the list serves only to profoundly confirm the point that christian lander is trying to make. But I digress. I was labled as “gifted”, but had the emotional maturity of an infant. As an adult, I am very poorly adjusted and actually dropped out of college. Now i don’t need to hear a dialogue on overcoming adversity, I am fully aware that others have mounted far greater obstacles. But my reality is my own and it has led to my incapacitation. I have a 4 year old daughter who is a NORMAL child. She has unique talents and interests but does not show any signs of being gifted. And what a relief that is because she is happy and healthy without a hint of anxiety. Let it go, people. If your child is exceptionally bright, great. If your child is average, great. Love them and be grateful.
Your right about that gifted thing… Just look at that Feller on the Road Warrior, I think it was Mad Max’s Cousin that was gifted.. You see him in the woods when hes following Max’s Wife.. hes a little slow but You know By the time Mad Max Beyond thunderdome came out… Hell he was Blaster! and what a bad ass he was… Ball Cracker on foot! Too bad about that Thunder dome thing.. ended his carreer in underworld with master.
Oh heres a list of References: (Movies)
The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome
Any how next subject please.
Man is this dead-on. My son actually tested into the school district’s G&T magnet school, which he attends. However, I have yet to meet a parent who’s kid DIDN”T test in – or so every putz I meet who has to bring it up, cause I don’t care, tells me so – the vast majority of which don’t go to the school. There’s always some nonsensical excuse made up about how in the end the parent didn’t feel it “wasn’t the right fit” or they don’t “buy into” the magnet school for G&T, or they feel the school their kid is attending actually provides a better education, or some other bullshit. Lies. Sour grapes. All of it. Are you kidding me?!? These people would MURDER somebody to get their kid into that school. Why? Because this post is dead on. White people always think their kid is “gifted.”
My oldest son is bright, but my other two I don’t think well end up being in that school. Which is fine. And if somebody asks me, I’ll tell, cuz they didn’t test in. Why make up a line of bullshit?
[…] Ok, we’re not sure that’s real, but if it is, that lady should look out for an induction into the Alec Baldwin Parenting Hall of Fame. Plus, if said mother had ever read “Stuff White People Like” she would know that no child is average. (See “Gifted” Children.) […]
I tested for my elementary school’s gifted program, got in and then asked my parents not to put me in it… does that mean I’m not really white? I still made it into law school though…
Oh, I forgot. White people also always have their gifted children interact with eachother under carefully prescribed and controlled conditions called “playdates.”
The first time I heard the term “playdate” I was like, “What the hell is that?!” When I was kid, I used to find other kids in the neighborhood to play with. Not so anymore. Hovering, neurotic, smothering white people now arrange for “playdates” with eachother’s kids, kind of like sports agents finding a new team for their client to play for.
What you need to understand about the playdate is that it has nothing to do with kids playing, but rather, is a chance for white people to interview one another and find out if the other kid’s parents are of sufficient affluence, standing in the community, and educational or professional achievement, to be worthy of having their kid play with the other kid. A “bad” address can kill a playdate.
See, its really more about white people validating themselves by having their child play with the child of another parent/couple that is at least of equal or higher social standing. The kid may be a miserable brat, but if his parents drive BMWs, have a fabulous home, and are well-known, rest assured there will be more playdates. Conversely, if the kid is real polite and nice, but his parents drop him off in an old, rusty car, live in an apartment, or nobody that matters knows his family, then rest assured, that will be the final playdate.
White people LOVE playdates. That should’ve been on the list, but oh well.
And don’t forget, the ‘gifted’ kid, if he doesn’t have straight A’s, MUST be diagnosed with ADHD and be put on amphetamine medications for the rest of their childhood, or even the rest of their life. And when the amphetamine pills cause the kid to turn into a train wreck, off to the psychiatrist and double the dose.
Typical white middle class mother:
“I never taught Johnny how to talk when he was younger so now he just rocks back and forth and counts ceiling tiles all day. He still doesn’t talk but he can stack cups faster than lightning, its almost like the part of his brain that he was going to use for talking got used for stacking cups instead. He’s so gifted, I just know that someday he’ll be on ESPN’s cup stacking championships. When the doctors told me he’s got assburger syndrome I felt awful, but then Jenny McCarthy said that it was the vaccines that did it and I am really a great mom because I put up with a special needs child, I mean gifted, I mean…”
Oh…my…god! Little Johnny knows that 1 + 1 = 2!!! and he’s only 2 years old! He can spell “dog”! It’s obvious to me that he will cure cancer someday.
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No offense to anyone named “Johnny” or “Little Johnny,” though. ‘Specially if you DO cure cancer (in that case, thanks!).
I’m Black and grew up poor, but demonstrated the ability to thrive in an academically advanced curriculum therefore a really great teacher in my neighborhood school took notice and talked my mother into taking me to test for the gifted program offered at a school in an all Polish neighborhood. Needeless to say I passed, went on to a magnet highschool (where Michelle Obama was alumni) graduated then went on to a top tier university (Northwestern) and life is good.
I do not feel that I was any wiser than the kids in my neighborhood, or in my family, but I had better access to learning tools and enthusiastic educators. We even had a computer lab which was unheard of at the time. Unfortunately none of the kids in my Englewood neighborhood (where Jennifer Hudson’s family was murdered) were as lucky, but all it takes is a handful of teachers that give a damn and are dedicated to education to make a difference. If these children lack the foundation, independence and success as adults becomes an uphill battle.
Nobody cares about ANYTHING you just said! No one cares about your IQ, your kids and their IQ, or your life lessons. If you were actually important then you wouldn’t be bragging about your intelligence on an internet forum. And if you were actually smart you wouldn’t be giving your kids hackneyed advice that everyone has heard millions of times! Now STOP trying to rationalize your meaningless existence by saying that if your kids understand your bullshit life lesson (at which they undoubtedly roll their eyes at), that your life would transcend existential futility!
Labelling a kid gifted is a guaranteed way to f**k that kid up for life. Most of them rebel and become coke heads or bulimics.
Gifted means advanced, special means retarted… ahh what the fuck its all the same to me. When i was young if i messed up in school i got my ass beat, then i got too old and big for a spanking, but by then i already realized that stupid people dont make alot of money. So the rest was all self motivation.
I was tested in late grade school or early junior high and put into gifted program. “Gifted program” at my school consisted of being pulled out of class once a week for 30 minutes and doing brain-teaser puzzles.
The gifted students in our public schools are an overlooked group. They really do need extra challenges or more advanced materials, but instead they are kept at the level of everyone else in the class.
I was so bored in school that I became a bit of a problem child. I’d try to find “unique” ways to tell the teacher I was bored, but it just landed me in the principals office. (Yelling out the answers before anyone else in class could answer, answering my math homework in roman numerals or binary, writing essay answers to test questions in spirals, etc.)
College wasn’t so bad because most of my classes had very little homework, it was mainly lecture and test. Or problem-solving project, since I majored in computer science (identify problem, work out a solution for it, figure out implementation of said solution).
In the “real world” though, I struggled my first few years in the work force. I never had to learn to motivate myself since A’s and B’s came so easily to me in school. And I was used to getting by with minimal effort but above-average results; which doesn’t translate well from school to career.
I really feel like it was almost more of a curse than a blessing to be a “gifted child”.
Ohh OOOOh i was pulled out to do the same kinda shit!
I was a gifted kid. I am now in medical school. I am white beyond belief.
I am impossibly amused. I am considered gifted, though I must admit it drives my parents crazy because I do get bored. And refuse to do my homework. And I get some of the highest test scores in my school. So it drives my teachers crazy, too. Thankfully I make up for it with my creativity, so they always have proof that I’m “gifted”. It’s hysterical how accurate this actually is. And then it scares me because now I know exactly what to expect from myself as I get older.
I guess I should have specified why it infuriates my teachers: I don’t listen in class. I don’t read the book. I don’t do the homework. So how do I know the stuff? I already knew it. Years ago. So they can’t even claim they’re responsible for what I know. That really screws with them, which, I confess, is EXACTLY what I want.
From one “gifted” kid to another my least favorite word is “potential”. I agree with the boredom issue and may I add that creativity quickly leads to creative ways of making trouble.
You know what’s even worse? When you get labeled “gifted” and “special” at the SAME TIME. Yeah.
I pretty much did all my learning outside school. They didn’t know what to do with me, and I didn’t want much to do with them.
I was put into the gifted program as a 2nd grader, and it was great until high school when the gifted were put into this class called global which is an AP level English/social studies class as a freshman, and then put into world as sophomores which is the same thing basically, but harder, and now my GPA is horrible because I wasn’t properly prepared to succeed in those classes and I’m suffering and wondering if any college worth going to will accept me. yayyy gifted program.
That is SO true yet SO annoying. Literally I never met anyone -especially women- in my life that did not have a “gifted” kid. Based on this fact, I can tell I will have gifted kids some day and brag about their ability to speak multiple languages and talent at Arts etc for ever… It will be my payback time for years of listening to their “cute” stories.
I was like this too… but my parents weren’t as understanding or supportive you are of your son… they thought a child should be seen not heard and God forbid she be smarter than they…
You’re right, school is torture, it’s oppressive and suffocating and it is also difficult to relate to kids one’s own age because one is at a whole different level of comprehension…
Moreover, those kids and their parents that used the label “gifted” incorrectly always bothered me… a gifted child is a special situation where a kid possesses naturally, highly developed intellectual and subsequent emotional needs… it’s not synonymous with children who expresses strong individuality which now a days is pretty much everyone’s child.
Or maybe you just suck because you’re lazy and incapable of studying, which is basically all you really have to do for AP/Higher level courses.
-Veteran of Gifted courses, AP classes & the IB program.
There was a study that showed people with higher IQs also had a higher rate of alcoholism (or just drank more)…I don’t have a link for the article though…
There is lies the heart of the matter – Someone that gives a damn and motivates a child to work to their potential and be successful! I am the mother of several gifted children (IQ’s above 145) and a son that has an IQ of 85, is severely hearing impaired, and schizophrenic + I am an LD/CD Cluster (low Resource kids); and I know what a difference believing in a student’s abilities can make. Our education system definitely does not do enough for our youth to excel – and, instead, encourages students to be ‘average.’ What a loss! I’m glad that there was a teacher there to see past the color of your skin, and where you came from, to what your future truly could be!
I agree completely with the last statements – I don’t think I was ever labelled a ‘gifted’ child (we’re a lot less pretentious here in Australia), but above average results in all areas came easily. Even if I didn’t do something all that well, it was always expected that I would do well so I’d received a good grade. Being great at everything all the time also makes you incredibly arrogant, particularly if your parents think you’re a remarkable person, so that every achievement becomes proof of your brilliance and genius. Growing up was a complete shock! Meeting people who could out-argue me, see through me, getting a ‘pass’ grade (shock horror!) at University, and finally working at an extremely challenging job with responsibilities and deadlines. My self-esteem is completely destroyed, and now I have to build & develop the usual qualities which should have been taught to me as a child. Definitely a curse!
Well now, you’ve got the personality of a keeper.
(Note the sarcasm)
I had trouble coming out of gifted classes and into more advanced educational classes. Let it be known I still graduated though, managed to get into my choice school, and recently finished a PhD in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering.
I agree that studying is very important and you can push through those AP and advanced study classes. Some people don’t adapt very well though.
So true. When I was a kid, there was none of this ‘everyone’s a winner!’ crap. At Field Day, there was first, second, and third place. If you came in fourth, you got nothing. And it was good for kids! That kid that came in fourth would be determined to do better next time, instead of encouraging him to remain lazy.
What does it do to kids when you say they’re all gifted? It says they’ll get the same amount of praise if they don’t put any effort into anything.
i had always been told how gifted i was by my doting parents but didn’t make the ‘gifted’ cut when i tested in junior high. nothing was ever said and it was almost like it was unspeakable. i was then very insecure about my intelligence for many years. now that i have some perspective it makes me angry that my parents’ insecurities were so easily transferred to me. i’ve lived in japan (haha! i’m so white…) for a while and it’s interesting to note how unimportant being ‘smart’ is in this culture of self-deprecation and modesty. japanese parents just say how ‘stupid’ their child is and keep any pride they may have hidden away.
I grew up in the ’80s, when being “gifted” meant you would grow up to afford more cocaine than any other white kid.
Sigh. No mother or father ever brags that his or her child is possibly displaying the symptoms of developing neurosis inextractably linked to an overwhelming existential crisis at age 7. Strangely enough.
‘Well, ahem, MY five year old child hides in the library wiping her eyes on a copy of La Nausee.’
My parents just beat me and refused to let me read, while simultaneously praising my academic ability which stemmed from the same intelligence which refused to give me peace.
Ah…(wipes tears of laughter from eyes) The irony.
Thankyou– I read through at least 10 pages of comments just out of sheer curiousity at whether someone would point this out (and it needed to be pointed out). You have pointed this out. I can go to sleep now.
I remember when the yuppy shit was moving in my neighborhood – these assholes would only send their kids to ding dong school in Harlem (of all places) or the Upper West Side bc they had “gifted” programs. These kids also ate the sand from the sandbox (yeah, no shit bc I saw them doing it).
Yuppy dickheads love bragging how their kids are gifted – every one of these kids is a fucking genius being raised by 2 assholes for parents.
Stuff Black People Like: …Terrible spelling.
yay thanks for labeling me before you even know anything about me
in b4 but you’ll really be bulimic anyways!!!11
Think you nailed it Gloria!! Can you imagine getting that opportunity in 2nd Grade, then complaining in High School that you weren’t prepared for it properly? Hmmmm…
Interesting
‘According to the October 2008 American Journal of Public Health, “higher childhood mental ability was related to alcohol problems and higher alcohol intake in adult life.” Although more research will be done in the area of childhood IQ and adult alcohol use, the AJPH should be of interest to people working with gifted students’
http://giftededucation.suite101.com/article.cfm/gifted_students_and_alcohol_awareness
Looks like ill have to ponder this over a glass of scotch while listening to jazz music before my ADD kicks in after 15 mins of relaxation on turn the tv back on…..
I was always worried about making sure I got straight A grades. Not because I wanted to do well for myself, but I was concerned that if I didn’t, my frantic paranoid mother who watches the news too much might take me to a doctor and have me put on meds.
When a teacher says all their children are gifted, it’s a sign the teacher is a fool, and does not understand the meaning of the word gifted.
Growing up smart will make kids lazy. My BF and I were one of those smart kids. Both our parents were poor working class people and used to be poor farmers. They didn’t care about “gifted” or accelerated programs.
In grade school, I remember not working on my homework because I knew I will get the 100% on tests. I only worked enough to pass – because I was lazy. I would get the highest score even without a calculator.
If I finished the quizes first, my teacher would make me grade my classmates quizes. I also used that opportunity to get extra candy from kids that failed the test. A snickers bar would get a C.
I was a slick little girl.
I hated school because some teachers did not appreciate young mouthy slackers. So when I was 11, I decided to study to skip a grade – and I went through 7th and 8th grade in one year.
My BF started reading at 2 and also became a lazy kid. He met President Clinton as an award for getting the highest scores in all standardized exams from 1st-8th grade. He graduated high school with 2.5 GPA but perfect SAT scores.
My BF slept all the time in class. In our Physics 4 class, the professor asked a difficult question and nobody raised their hands. The professor called on my sleeping BF, and he gave the correct answer.
Everyone in our class were stunned that this guy knew the answer in his sleep. Our college buddies and professor still talk about that incident. Lucky b*stard slept through most of his classes and still graduated with honors.
My sister was the hard working average student. I remember she would study until 2AM. She even worked hard on those stupid Kaplan PSAT and SAT review classes. The poor girl was angry that the my score was still 200 points higher.
My sister became decent hardworking adult, working up to 70 hours a week. She will probably become an executive in her mid-30s. I am always proud of her accomplishments. She did it all by just by working hard and sacrifice.
If I had a choice between having a smart/gifted kid or hardworking average kid, I would rather have hardworking kid. All kids should be taught to study hard, work hard and be decent people.
The obsession with “gifted” kids is a waste of money.
yeah, the other parents were crying in the hallways back in Kindergarten when their kids did’t make it into G/T. Unfortunately, 3 out of 4 of the G/T teachers have STUNK. We homeschooled our gifted kid, who mostly read all the time & still got the highest SAT score in the state. With the Internet, bright kids can self-educate once they learn to read (which happens pretty early with truly G/T kids, with IQs over140.
I am an Australian as well and have almost the exact story. I got by without work and was quite suprised when in my 4th year of uni I had to use my brain. I lacked organisational skills and the discipline required to apply myself. Most people I knew laughed and welcomed me to the real world…. My daughter now has to work hard to get high grades and I am so excited as she is obtainig the study skills I still struggle with!!
Touche…I was a “gifted/creative” child (in reality, just a girl with Asperger’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive tendencies) and later developed bulimia and anorexia. When I think back on the other “gifted” kids I knew, though, pretty much all of them ended up getting better grades, scoring better on tests, and attending better colleges than I did. That’s because they were actually smart, and while I won’t say I’m stupid, I do think that the things at which I excel have more to do with compulsions than with actual intelligence. But as a child, nobody could tell the difference, so I was “gifted,” and then they were surprised when I started sucking at school and failing in social situations…and rather than handle it like a mature adult, suck it up and work harder, I developed an eating disorder.
Being labeled “gifted” will only f*** you up if you aren’t actually gifted.
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How is the spelling on that, loser?
Why do you think anyone reading this blog cares about how smart you are? I can’t work out if you’re making fun of yourself or you are actually that self obsessed
Haha, talk about embodiment of the original post. Or is this a joke?
i think people are starting to lose it here.
supposedly the funny part of this blog: all white people think that their kids are gifted.
without talking about my children or myself, I would just say that accelerated learning is indeed necessary for some children and adults. if everyone is equally gifted as a child, why do some become outstanding adults and win novel prizes and olympic medals while others end up being “plain” scientists, athletes or janitors? People are not equal in anything except civil rights. and when some parents want their kids to get into gifted program they transfer the civil rights into intellectual or artistic talents. I think that the cut off of most gifted programs is just too low, some start at about 130 points only. today this is the “average’, as as a whole , earth population grew smarter—
Kids and adults with IQs above 150 will always have problems with fitting it, making friends with classmates and sticking to the school curriculum.
i was labeled gifted in 1st grade, (my mother is white), and the teacher used to give me different work than all the other kids which made me feel weird…….I was taught to read at 2 1/2 years old but I just thought it was because my mom was a hippie and spent too much time with me trying to expand my mind…..LOL
I, like you, turned out extremely lazy, felt I was above homework etc. and am still lazy to this day at an extremely boring desk job slacking off as we speak. 🙂
Being gifted SUCKS if my dad had married a fellow Puerto Rican instead of my white mom I would never have had these problems
LMAO
lmaoo now that’s just nasty lmaoooo
As usual, a very funny post. I get a kick out of this site. I really enjoy reading the comments by people that take this site so serious.
Oh, and I agree with Accipiter, when I was in school they gave awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. I am sick and tired of people sugar coating lazy, slow, or stupid. Are you fat, stupid, or lazy? Don’t feel bad, its not your fault. Yes, it is your fault and please feel bad about it. Maybe you could work on bettering yourself. if you don’t want to better yourself you don’t have to, just don’t bitch because you are mediocre.
As much as white people don’t want to admit it, white people do have stupid kids, very very stupid, fat, and lazy kids. But white people we are not alone so don’t feel too bad.
I love the blog, keep it up!
I really enjoy reading the comments by people who take this site so seriously.
So- are you stupid or lazy?
Maybe that is why there is so little support for the arts in high school because white people every were would have to face the fact that their child is actually not all that talented. I was never in the gifted program in high school and had never thought I was all that “gifted” until I got to college and then I found out I have a natural talent for art and design. So I don’t have much respect for high schools or their “gifted” programs, seeing as they only focus on one side of the brain.
Learning about the arts isn’t very lucrative. However, learning science, math, and engineering often leads to very lucrative careers, which help to build our economy. It’s kind of a waste of tax money to stress the arts in public schools.
“My BF and I were one of those smart kids.”
Obviously not. You can’t have “one kids.”
I think this started when all the REAL gifted kids who couldn’t get anywhere because they were treated like normal kids, and then people took it way too far and now we’re at the opposite end of the spectrum. I’d say the other end is where we need to be. People like me who are actually ‘gifted’ and get stuck with the ‘normals’ will just have to tough it out, like I did until middle school. Unless they’re really fucked, in which case they’ll need to be one of the ‘special’ kids or some shit.
lol, yes, obviously you’re gifted. Just like me and everyone else!!
that’s so true. I was allowed to advance in elementary school and middle school while staying in a regular classroom. I was just lucky enough to have great teachers.
Then when I went through high school and college it was a struggle because I was always held back with the rest of the class. That time period was when this whole cruddy thing started. With everyone “gifted” no one needed to be allowed to advance.
It’s sad that children who really are gifted are now being held back. They really are becoming too smart for school, and it is hard for them.
My overall IQ is 135 and I am an active member of MENSA, I am 17, yet in school my GPA is 1.35 and have a total of 11.5 credits (I’m supposed to be a Junior), for me it all comes down to one thing, the fact that public schools are formatted to the way that normal kids learn and pass off the gifted kids to the special ed. department.
my iq is 2333456 overall im so smart arnt i.
Actually, I was born in Louisiana.
If the US needed deodorant, Louisiana is where we’d roll that white stuff on! Plus, it’s kind of shaped like an armpit, and smells like one
no offense 1337, but I completely disagree. The basics concepts of the visual arts are used wide range of professions. Any profession which deals with visual aesthetics are going need a basis in visual arts and that include numerous professions such as architects, advertisers, interior designers, graphic designers, web designers, and just about any profession ending in “design.” All of the above professions employ millions of people and each can be just as profitable as a career in science or engineering. I could go into more detail about how learning about the arts can be just as beneficial as math and science, but it seems rather off topic of for the blog “Gifted Children.” I probably shouldn’t have brought it up in the first place.
wow…….r u all gifted? bcause only like a few percent of the world iz supposed 2 b…..don’t know if i’m gifted but i’m azien which should totalllly count anyway like there’s a no child left behind program which is soooooo unfair for those “gifted” cause now theyre are grouped with “special ppl” since there is no funding i mean like no one has donated and all those special test to determine your iq and stuff only holds back those who don’t do so well and doesn’t advance those who get a 99 (perfect score) say if you are in elemtry on the Standerized tests cause that means you scored above 99 percent of all other peeps anyway
gifted needs more funding or they will disapear
By gifted you mean given the gift of medication at an early age?
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God, I love this post.
I’m white, and I was a ‘gifted’ child, and then I had my own and I thought they were ‘gifted’.
This is brilliant ….. and SO true!
Barbra
http://intelligentwomenreadromance.com/2009/06/24/because-women-cling-to-their-children-long-after-they-should-to-legitimise-their-existance/
I’m gifted, and so are my kids. I’m white too, lol. You just changed my perspective 🙂
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That is true… lol
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I am so smart. S-M-R-T.
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Absolutely hysterical! Gifted or not these kids are still going to have to have the common sense to survive in this world.
Yet another good post by SWPL…
Another site I look at for humor is http://www.somethingyoushouldread.com. It features articles, haikus, comics, and many other hilarious things.
FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dude whats your prob? srsly! totally uncalled for, if i do say so myself, a gifted person. đź‰
That’s the dumbest load of donkey shit I have ever heard. May the fleas of a thousand camel nut sacs infest your armpits for defaming the reign of The Intelligencia. You are obviously pandering to non-white readers in an attempt to increase your readership thereby the money you stand to make. WHITE PEOPLE KNOW WHEN OTHER WHITE PEOPLE ARE PANDERING!!!! Add that to your list, Elvis…
This has GOT to be my favourite post.
I was a ‘gifted’ child and I thought my son was when he was born.
Genius!
(Christian Lander was a ‘gifted’ child as well)
Barbra
http://intelligentwomenreadromance.com/
Live cinema! Who can put down an awesome live cinema performance?
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this is so true. and laughable. i’m white and i’ve realized this for years. ” our 4 year old little jason is sooo smart it’s scary…!” “wow, really? tell me more, what does he do?” “well, he loves to sing and dance around whenever he hears music playing! and he makes the funniest little comments!”
you gotta be kiddin me. the kid’s just another mediocrity, just like mom and dad! he’s not even cute or interesting!
here’s another one: all their grandchildren were the cutest babies they have ever seen, bar none…seriously, the most adorable infant ever to leave a womb…
and they really believe it!
Now that was funny (well, actually each post I’ve read is pretty funny). But this one. I used to work in Barnes and Noble. Every time I was in the kids’ section shelving books, I would hear the parents talking about how their child is only 5 but reads on an 8-year old level. Or something to that effect. “Oh she’s a really good reader; she’s well above where she should be” Every time. Seriously. It was a running joke with us; we are convinced the cure for cancer will come from that area.
Freedomhaters.org has another really hilarious parody of Stuff White People Like.
Their entrees include, Madame Curie, Blackface, and The Music of Easter Island. I highly recommend checking it out here:
http://www.freedomhaters.org/content/yet-another-salute-stuff-white-people
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2009/07/08/why-female-condoms-just-never-really-took-off/
This comic reminded me of this post: http://www.jsayers.com/thingpart/thingpart205.html
Sad panda…I was in a gifted program.
-cloud of shame-
Hmmm… You are in for some surprises
haha…except I am in medical school and whites are actually the minority, most of my classmates are Indian, Paskistani, and middle eastern, along with a good number of east , so I don’t know how accurate that is
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Haha… you’re in medical school and yet you’re saying “along with a good number of east”. I’ll bet you meant “Asians”, or “Easterners”, or “Asian-Americans”. East? Don’t they require grammar checks in med school? lolololz just bustin yer ballz.
It seems to me like every single parent I’ve ever overheard said something about how their kids read “beyond their grade level”. What if the people who designed the standards for grade levels in reading were just idiots?
If you’re all so gifted, then why are you all hanging out at this website instead of doing something productive?
Great to hear you are in medical school, congratulations. I write for http://StuffRichPeopleLove.com and am sure I will be writing about private doctor soon. Medicine is very noble but only a few big time surgeons (read Beverley Hills) are making a fortune. I think the “gifted” kids went to Goldman Sachs to become investment bankers…maybe that’s just the kids who had the gift of foresight.
Shut up.
Maybe… just maybe… he is not in an English speaking med school?
LOL, just pwning you.
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White people certainly do not like Dane Cook, and Abraham Lincoln calls him out on it…
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I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on programs to further their alleged gifted children.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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Hey, I’m a rich Latino. Don’t you want my money?
You know, the reason white people think their kids are gifted is that they do have a high percentage of gifted kids. In IQ they are beaten only by Asians and Jews. But white people add creativity to IQ, that’s why most inventions are by white people and not Asians or Jews.
White people certainly do not like Fred from Youtube, and Abraham Lincoln calls him out on it
http://lincolnsaysuncool.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/lincoln-says-uncool-fred/
HA! “Because an astounding 100% of their kids are gifted!” ROFL
White people certainly do not like Nickelback, and Abraham Lincoln calls them out on it…
http://lincolnsaysuncool.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/lincoln-says-uncool-nickelback/
I love this stuff.
If you guys like this site, I think you might like another comedy site called http://www.somethingyoushouldread.com.
White people certainly do not like cargo shorts…
they almost killed Abraham Lincoln!
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I wish I were exaggerating, but virtually every white friend I have believes their child is gifted, usually in an artistic field rather than math, because it’s a lot harder to pretend your kid is great at math when he or she isn’t. Or maybe math is too nerdy. People wanted gifted children, but not geeks đź€
Oh pleas–can’t you at least be honest on anonymous forum? You’d rather have a brilliant kid rather than a dull plodder. Another characteristic of white people–bogus, passive-aggressive humility. Of course people would rather be gifted than average, just as they’d rather be beautiful than plain or rich than poor. Being arrogant about being smart is annoying, but sheer BS is even worse.
This is because for the most part, middle to upper-class people value creativity over hard work when it comes to parenting and for middle to lower-class people it is the other way around. Upper class kids will be given whatever they need to succeed and need only to find their niche, while lower class kids need to ensure a place in society.
Grandpa builds the family company, dad maintains it, and the kids dabble at the arts while putting down the “capitalist exploitation” that makes their dabbling possible.
yup, that’s about the size of it. go on and get your hustle on, now.
I agree what you said.
so true. but people still don’t put me in gifted classes and i get so bored in normal classes.I can fall asleep in science class for a week and when friday comes I get a A without cracking open a book. To me its so obviouse. same with literature.I got the top of my class in all subjects but they still don’t put me in gifted! I had got a perfect 100 in soc.studies and they still don’t put me in gifted.Whats up with that?
really thats so cool from chicago too.
Isn’t that just evolution though? We’re programmed to like our offspring more than other people’s so that we’ll be more likely to take care of them. We can’t help it.
Maybe because we’ve all cleverly got our work done ahead of time and are taking a well-earned mental break 🙂
I am a Mensan too, Jack, and I had a similar experience in my grade school and college years. Part of the problem is that yes, we are held back. Even in the “advanced” classes. But another major problem is that gifted children are told they are gifted and a lot of the time begin to use it as an excuse. A person with Downs Syndrome isn’t likely to go research it in the library. But a “gifted” kid will go straight to the books or internet and after a few hours have a laundry list of excuses for why he or she just can’t cut it in regular classes. I myself am entirely guilty of this. Instead of expecting the system to bend over for them, gifted individuals should instead use their abilities to keep themselves on track and engaged in school. The world doesn’t suddenly catch up with them when they get to college, or start their career. They will be fighting this same battle for the rest of their lives.
Learning about the arts is scientifically proven to enhance students’ ability to excel in science, math, engineering, and multiple other subjects. For example, learning and performing on a musical instrument involves a great deal of complicated and fast-paced mathematical calculations, as well as physical dexterity and intense focus.
Those fearful white yuppies dread what their kid has if they do VERY well in school and VERY bad in social skills, they got the A.U.T.I.S.M.! Omigod, these kids are “special” or in PC terms “socially challenged”. That’s the new mentality on how smart a kid is: they got to have Asperger’s syndrome or something to explain their “genius” nature than the rest of those “dumb” kids…no wait, they got the A.U.T.I.S.M. too. +
IQ and race aren’t scientifically connected, but what makes a member of a certain race more likely to succeed in public schools or get ahead in higher education? Cultural values, income level and availability of a higher education are said to influence children to grow up able to do well in school and later in life. Also it stems from parental influence and support, but the child’s family must value education and promote good academic studying habits. +
The last “gifted” child born in Reseda, Cal. in 1962…and did Nostradamus said his name fits that of the third antichrist due to come about this time? Dec. 21. 2012 will be the day a gifted child grew up to be the worst thing upon mankind. It’s coming…remember, the prince(ss) of darkness in the revelations of the last days was considered “gifted”. +
Asians, the once-viewed “yellow peril” in World War II propaganda posters held as nostalagic by white liberals who are into “Eastern Asian culture”, and they rule the world after the world supposedly ends for the western man. China can defeat the USA by a larger bodied army 3 to 1 against ours, Japan has built enough robots to replace themselves after they go extinct and North Korea is nuke-crazy, might start a third world war in any moment. +
You mean a kid who likes to read, does well in adding numbers and questions about stuff…is gifted? It’s like all those parents notice a nice, quiet boy who isn’t playing with GI joe figurines or an unfeminine girl (uh oh, sexism comin up at ya) not into fashion mags…are gifted? Not to mention these are lily whites who have no Jewish heritage, Asian blood and not British types. Sheesh…how low can you go when it comes to high-IQ kids of them angst-ridden yuppie parents. Why have them sign up to play little league sports (oh…that’s too much pressure!) instead? No, it’s the black and Puerto Rican kids, real white kids play hockey (actually, Canadians with French surnames on uniforms). +
Same goes to the “special ed.” classes for bad-performing students, put there for “a reason”: I mean constant trouble at school, unable to get past a ‘C’ grade in a class and look like they are “criminal gangsters” striaght from the street predicted to end up in a state institution: San Quentin and Folsom State. Yes, some black families promote their gifted child and even more are sons of African immigrants said to be the new “model minority” surpassing African-Americans in college admissions and employment in professions. +
If a child is diagnosed with autism (that will be me), A.D.D., O.C.D., anxiety/depression, Asperger’s, Tourette’s or any mental disorder accompanied with “intelligence”, they will end up in a “gifted” class, not with the “retards”, “cripples” or “weirdos” who come to school in a little yellow bus.
I know that last comment was harsh (my warped sense of humor about one’s self), but I have high-functioning autism growing up in the 1980s/early 90s when autism wasn’t commonly heard of by society outside the psychiatric field, and educational/behavioral therapies was helpful for me. +
What you described are Human DNA samples isolated by one “gifted” child in his class, he spoke of a dream when he creates a “master race” and the elimination of whatever is not perfect: genes that cause diseases, disabilities and other inheritable things (i.e. dark skin, eyes or hair) in the same way the Nazis dreamed of 70 years ago. Thank god they never able to acquire such gene-cidal technology in the name of “science” and eugenically improving mankind in der fuehrer’s image. Autism and mental disabilities are on the hit list of Hitler’s program for the “final solution” along with Jews, Slavic people, homosexuals and the very ill. +
Just kidding on the last one, but anyone who’s bigoted and snobby enough, but has an eye on entering politics is sure to doom us all. I overheard one joke about Nazi genocidial programs, but pertains to the Romany people or Gypsies whom was second to the Jews in the most killed by the Nazis: “How did the Nazis took care of the Gypsy beggars, the Nazis learned Gypsy magic…and made them vanish”. +
Chileans and Argentines would pass the “white” test, but any descendant of Castillian spanish conquistadors should. There are white Mexicans (some have non-Spanish names), wealthy Cubans; and Colombians, Venezuelans and Uruguayans going to college in the states, for example.
In racial-ethnological terms, having Cherokee & Osage ancestry should not only make me advance through affirmative action programs…I’m closely related to Aztecs, Mayans or any other American Indians by genetic patterns. Remember, the Aztec, Maya and Cherokee were “SMART”, and the Incas in Peru seem to put white people into awe.
The GATE program offers special treatment programs for any non-white “gifted” child? I don’t understand why the registration fees is too much anyways. What if someone born & raised in a trailer or log cabin can qualify for GATE? +
I happen to have Autism, anxiety-depression disorder and was tested for ADD/OCD in recent years. To go through the process of public education wasn’t easy for me, and certain public schools were too unsafe or alienating. To attended school in largely Hispanic neighborhoods where poverty is what unites non-Hispanics with them, and in a mostly white “prep” high school full of neo-conservative rebels of baby-boomer parents. But I have a neurological disorder and that can, but haven’t really, held me back in my life. +
White & gifted (& boy? girl?), you knew about more public schools want and adapted gender-segregate classes to provide better learning environments set up differently each: one girls-only and the other for boys. The gender gap in public education is another matter, but racial and class disparities are brought up by teachers & school district administration officials. White people want gender equality, but gives unequal treatment for “smart” girls sending them to GATE and “special” boys into the mental handicapped class. +
You’re correct, nobody wants “geeks” but “smart people” like to be a genius is expected. White parents obsessed with public education made it mandatory for kids under 18 to attend (that’s the law in Cal.), but all of a sudden want home-schooling because public education is substandard for them and public schools are nothing more than “poor/ minority children in a government-funded baby-sitting day program for working parents”. How about that comment? +
Millions of kids lack a vitamin crucial to their health said a latest scientific study on Vitamin D is lacking in 70% of US children: ABC News with Charles Gibson.
Ok here’s what you can do: turn off the TV/computer, make them get outside, drink their daily glass of milk and force the vitamins down their throats. I hope this isn’t promoting child abuse, but don’t always put on sunblock on their skin. +
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I was not in the “gifted” program in school…and I have to confess it really has scarred me for life.
Didn’t they say the world would end in 2000? Man, I’m still unloading all of these fucking pudding snack packs and bottles of water.
Oops…Non-gifted white child? The last one! There’s still hope in white mankindred, mein ariesche comerade. The Hasidic Jewish occupation of western San Fernando valley shall come to an end. They are whiter than me anyways, and you know how the Jews sympathize with non-whites: Blacks in Alabama, Puerto Ricans in the Bronx, the Lakota in South Dakota, etc. White people in L.A. now live in Westwood (gay), Brentwood (gayer) and West Hollywood (gayest).
Stuff black people like: Rhythmic poetry became “rap” and “hip-hop”, a huge multibillion dollar industry grew out of the “ghettos” of Harlem and Hollis, Queens into the Greenwich village and recording offices of Madison Avenue, Manhattan. Don’t forget the politicized “Gangsta rap” straight outta Compton moved upward to Hollywood. +
In the 90s, the gifted were the ones on ritalin more than any other white kid. And in the 2000’s, the gifted were the ones on zoloft with the black box warnings for white kids.
The meaning of “outcast” changed as well: To be gifted in the 80s would turn punk, in the 90s to turn grunge and in the 2000s to turn emo: become sad, violent and suicidal. +
Women who are pregnant are urged to eat fish, avoid wine and abstain from certain meds. (unless for prenatal stress/ postnatal depression). In those families, both addictions, mental illnesses/disorders and “gifted” code word-autistic children come together. To seen alcoholic/psychotic moms have mildly retarded/obsessive-compulsive/ADD-stricken children indicates a genetic trait in these families, though I have autism and my father’s side has alcohol abuse, with all his 3 kids (and a grandson) with a learning disability. +
SPAM! that you pan. I eat green eggs and spam, yes I am get back at pan. Teach a child to read and he/she turns out “gifted” 🀠Eat more fish, in which the preg. (cant’ say) expects a smarter kid-sh. Mercury’s effect on the unborn and those already alive went through mercury poisoning, seem to have “gifted” but disabled kids or “smart yet silly” behaviors: nicknamed the Mad Hatter syndrome, but now called Minamata disease or the Autism-childhood Vaccine theory. +
Aly, according to Hans Asperger and the Nazi T-4 program, the “gifted” kids must be autistic or have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors. The unusual rate of genetic melodies among the Jewish people from Tay-sachs to Hodgkinson’s defies main-stream science who say Jews aren’t a race nor any bit gene-tically different, has a long history of families have genetic inherited melodies or certain traits to created stereotypical “Nice Jewish boy nerds” like Woody Allen (a comedian-director), and Albert Einstein (a genius said to been labeled “retarded” as a child). +
I believe so, the same way an athletic child gets pushed into little league and the parents get bent outta shape when he can’t win most of the games he plays in. The kid does the things to fulfill the parent’s dreams, like to push a hyperactive child to get into acting…or put enough ritalin in his/her system to calm the (blank) down. +
Good story, but you shown both black people and Polish people are (gasp) SMART. I heard tons of Polish jokes:
“you heard the Polish space program wants to put a spaceship to land on the sun’s surface?”
“How did the Polish army pushed back the invading Nazis or Soviets? They marched backwards.”
“The Irish in Dublin knew Poles are the ones who at night see a street lamp and all gather or swarm around its’ light like moths”.
“The Pope is Polish-ing up the Jews and Gypsies, that way they can open more empty chain stores.”
and “Poles, they really do stick together.”
Yeah, the Poles passed as white people, but the first Polish immigrants had to pass the INS test not required for US-born African-Americans. +
I wonder the typical white mother is Jewish! (I gotta stop it, my apologies for the comments on Poles, Italians, the Irish or Armenians). You see, white people are like M&M’s: they come in different colors, but one has the peanut inside. +
Straight A-students are not white, ask the “yellow” people (er, Asians) on how they have MORE pressure to get all A’s in school, either by the parents or by a racist white majority who view them the “model minority”. White kids must get any grade above “average”, an occassional “B” spells “you get a super you!” and liberal parents not neo-cons praise their kid no matter how much he tries to get above “C”. +
It will never stop, the whole public ed. system in America (and esp. in Cal. from 1st place to 45th out of all states) is ranking lower and lower each year. Either human beings are procreating dumber or devolving, or there are more easy, fun & useful ways to learn, study or know more about things. Sending kids to school, returning them with 3 hours of nightly homework or placing them on detention/Saturday school for a minor behavioral offense (but hey we don’t do corporal punishment anymore) makes learning not good! +
White people sure are hoping the baby comes out with BLUE/beige eyes, BLOND/brown hair and BLANK-white skin. If it’s a boy, needs to gain muscle and be a hard-worker (in the office-no calories burned) and if it’s a girl, never gain any fat and be a pic model (poster child for feminist causes).
Another thing: French women never get fat, just have more body hair, and Native American women are fatter than the fattest whites. Both of them don’t HAVE to wear face makeup and stretchmarks are like medals of honor. White American women on the other hand, get anorexic, pulls out any hair not above their eyes, covered in face makeup (permanent laser surgery) and ashamed of having babies, therefore they don’t have any (or hire a surrogate).
Note the statement above is false, but has a pinch of truth. +
Nice story to share, but no one really care (rhymes).
Maybe the kid uses their intelligence for an advantage, or when one has an education available to them (and not equally distributed even in the USA) they will have a great life. The trouble is, one doesn’t need to be a college grad. to be in the middle-class, just a high school degree is fine.
The governments in all 50 US States and D.C. still requires mandatory school attendance to all minors. But why is it only poorer, black or “delinquent” kids go to juvie or jail? All because they didn’t wanna show up for class or in school. +
Best post entry in the blog so far, I can’t agree with you more. Teach important lessons, encourage right morals, and model kindness for others. Whether the child learns from mom, dad, neighbors, friends, teachers, role models of any kind, in church, at a park, or among peers on campus. Learning about the world from your eyes…your head…and your heart, is what teaches the child to become who he/she is, and “one is the center of one’s universe”. +
…and the gifted of the third kind: Autistic (diagnosed at age 5) , anxiety/depressed, currently checked for ADD/OCD and no, I don’t have Tourette’s, just being rude, foul, not PC or “acting racial” is treated as a modern mental defiency.
Mike Savage acts worse than any autistic person I know of, his infamous remark on Autism is a “fraud”, the “illness de jour” and a pandemic of misdiagnosed kids by worriesome baby-boomer/liberal/yuppie (white American) parents.
In other words, Savage is a liar or a bigot or don’t know s-h-i-t when he speaks over the airwaves. Freedom of speech, but has its’ limits when one is in a career not acting nice or unprofessional. SWPL censored one word: the “N” word.+
I have a form of autism, close to Asperger’s though, and the recent phenomena of parents wanted to be sure the child’s behaviors are attributed to an autistic spectrum disorder is on the rise. I came to notice most of the new diagnoses of autism are boys (7 out of 10 people with autism are male), aged 2 to 6 years of age, and white middle-class. Where are the girls? Is it a chromosomal defect affecting more boys, but also occurs in girls? There are millions of autistic adults, and autism happens to all races or classes. It makes me wonder the kind of parents wanna know the child (mostly a boy) acting out is wrong or an “abnormal” behavioral thing. Are black children and women/girls under-diagnosed? and about the older age/later diagnosis of those have Asperger’s syndrome? More we need to know. +
“Are black children and women/girls under-diagnosed?”
Autism is an end of a spectrum of brain specialization. The autistic pole is related to systemic thought and male brain development. It’s expected to be more common among male kids.
Autism does work a little different with black children. Some symptoms are more severe. And it’s less studied.
Schools have gotten smart. There is a gifted test; which is a hands on version of the IQ test. In order to make it into gifted they have to have a certain score. Also not everyone tested gets in. The best part is now minorities can be accepted into gifted too. If the child belongs to a minority they don’t have to get as high as a score. So white people have to be smart to get in. Non-whites just have to be a few points better than mental retardation to get in.
Being gifted, I find this post rather offensive. The gifted population is about 3% of the total population, and it is not impacted by race. 97% of white people are just plain average.
“Being gifted, I find this post rather offensive (…) 97% of white people are just plain average”
I guess your giftedness skipped statistical skills.
Of course 97% are not “plain average”. Check the 68-95-99.7 rule. 68% of all people are expected to be within one standard deviation from the median IQ. So there are about 16% of people “below average” and 16% “above average”.
And this distribution is impacted by race. Any honest study has pointed that. It’s a hornet’s nest though, and Liberals will try to skin you alive if you dare not to join the choir.
Very nice take on the stats, but I believe the first poster meant 3% are Mensa. Of course, that 3% is included in the 16% you have stated. I believe they’d say that the first person is just “too smart to be right”. Haha.
are you suggesting that Jews are not White? how many black or latino jews have you seen?
“I believe the first poster meant 3% are Mensa”
Mensa cuts on 2% actually (98th percentile). IQ 130 in the Wechsler scale. But I think he was very explicitly trying to say something about non Mensa people, as if they were this big indistinct mass. People with IQ 120 are dramatically brighter than than their IQ 80 counterparts, even though neither qualify for Mensa.
“are you suggesting that Jews are not White? how many black or latino jews have you seen?”
Literally thousands. In Israel Jews come in basically three colors: white (Ashkenazim – literaly, “Germanic”), brown (Sepharadim/Mizrachim – literaly, Hyspanic/Eastern) and black (Ethiopians). Mizrachim are the rough equivalent of Latinos in Israel. They look dark (Arab/Mediterranean), dig spicy food, lowbrow music and are generally ignorant. And they are *the majority of the Israeli population*.
But I was indeed referring to white Jews, as opposed to white gentiles. There are higher IQs among the white Jews… but higher creativity among white gentiles.
I would call that poetic justice.
That’s funny. We were all thinking the same about you…
Perhaps there aren’t many blacks sick enough in the head to be a serial killer. And, this will blow your mind, US prisons are predominately filled with people of color in large part due to yes, I’m going to say it…RACISM.
Your forebears may have never owned slaves and mine may never have been slaves, but don’t ever, ever, ever, minimize the evil that was chattel slavery in the United States. Not only is it unfortunately relevant today since it was that evil institution which gave rise to the socioeconomic ills affecting blacks today and the racism that still exists in the hearts and minds of many whites. I don’t care how many blacks sold their brothers and sisters into slavery; they had no way of knowing what awaited them in the New World. Slavery has existed as long as man. But that can in no way diminish the effect of slavery on America’s blacks or Africa. Would you dare to diminish the tragedy of the Jewish people? Or the Japanese? Don’t do it to my people. In my mind, you minimization of my history is racist.
Dude, learn some spelling and grammar!
It’s “killing THEIR kids” and
“thinking THEY’RE better than somebody”
wow that is so true
this can be linked with the bumper sticker one because don’t you see those cars with the sticker that says “my child is a honor student at [insert elementary school here]”
they think their child is so smart then when middle school comes, theres less parents who think their child is “gifted.” Then comes high school and less and less think theyre gifted
you see these people talking about their gifted children mostly when their child is in elementary school where it’s pretty easy to be “gifted”
Theres no such thing as “gifted”
“Would you dare to diminish the tragedy of the Jewish people? Or the Japanese?”
No. But would I dare attribute all evils happening to them *NOW* to the tragedies happened generations ago? Do Jews have a free pass to be ignorant and poor because of the ghetto laws under which they lived for centuries in Europe? No. African Americans are poor and ignorant not because of slavery in America, but because they’ve been ALWAYS ignorant and poor. They were ignorant and poor in Africa, they continued ignorant and poor once free in America. They just never developed the culture to rise up above that. Unlike the Jews and Japanese.
When blacks stop crediting all their shortcommings to dealings happened generations ago, and start striving towards acquiring a culture of knowledge, work and wealth, they too might learn how to do it. Like Jews and Japanese once did.
“what’s the white people’s excuse?”
Hum… they have bigger raw numbers to start with?
Or maybe they are being crushed by institutionalized reverse racism (affirmative action)?
Every group of people produce their misfits. Even the Japanese. What is the Japanese excuse to be on welfare, even when, as a group, they are more successful than any other including, yeah, whites?
It’s just that blacks credit all their misfitting to racism.
LOL I was called a “Gifted” child. They actually sent me to a special school. When I got to college and it no longer mattered how smart your parents thought you were, I wound up failing a bunch of classes and dropping out.
The only thing I learned in the “Gifted Education System” is that it would be easier for parents as a whole to lower their expectations of their child and watch as their kid impresses them naturally, than it is to assume your kid is already impressive so you can be shocked and appaled when they don’t measure up.
I’m white, in high school, and considered “gifted.” The label and gifted classes in general are a joke once you’ve reached high school. There is nothing challenging about them, so I dropped out and took AP classes.
In my all white (and poor rural) public school, a statistically impossible amount of the bell curve were exceptional students–either gifted or learning disabled. The school got $$$ from the state for every exceptional student identified. All the exceptional students had something called an IEP–individual education plan–which only existed on paper.
I was labeled “gifted”. I was absent about two months my senior year of high school, and the only reason I graduated is I threatened my principal with going public on his whole fake IEP/exceptional student scam. Maybe I was pretty smart, after all.
Holy ! I guess gifted and sense of humour don’t quite go hand in hand.
I happen to live in Canada, and I’m considered gifted. But what the hell is this white people are all gifted crap? I’ve been in 3 gifted classes before and every time, at least 75% of the people are Asians.
i am a loser with too many names and too much time. i think the reason why i’m skrewd up is cuz my dad rapes me… Blak pwr
Michael on August 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Sorry, that’s how I get through life. At work, in school and with other people. More of a Californian thing, if I wasn’t in the state of Cal. I wouldn’t be required to, then I’m one of those autistic nerds or something tries to get by in life. I’m a product of my own environment, middle-class people get down on their luck and have to face reality. I share this guy’s sarcastic sense of humor on how he perceives the world through a “white man’s” comical point of view. +
See autism boy, I can dig up alot more on your dumb ass if you continue with this race shit that you started.
Test me bitch.
YOINK!
I’m Hispanic/white and I got into gifted. I assume you didn’t mean specifically ALL minorities, and you made a generalisation, because I can guarantee the majority of the kids in the gifted program at my high school are not just barely above mental retardation – they’re quite intelligent.
This is hilarious. Recently the AP scores plummeted at Evanston township High School, because who ever wants to can take these courses. An AP English teacher talked to teh parents of a student who had received an “F” in the class, for never completing assignments etc…what was the parents response you ask – “Well, he doesn’t like to read. He is too smart.” !!!
This is borderline racist.
HAHA I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and think it’s DEF just a funny!!
Is there a stuffjewishpeoplelike.com ??
This is off topic, but I just have to tell you that kids here in Newington Green, London, UK, ride tiny WOODEN BICYCLES. They probably get them from the shop in the China Inland Mission that sells retro toys. (And I have to confess I like it and it has some nice stuff.) Just round the corner is a children’s cafe (it’s doing well and hosts art clubs and birthday parties). People come here to have two children and then move to Crouch End because the secondary schools here are too … mixed. You can get a latte at Belle Epoque, Shine, the Acoustic Cafe or that other one opposite the toyshop that has farmhouse tables with herbs growing in recycled olive oil tins. (I think I made that up but I’m not sure.) Thank goodness there are still some Turkish shops that stay open till midnight, a Turkish old man’s club, a Turkish patisserie, a fish and chip shop, a fried chicken shop and a really friendly chav bakery. The latte drinkers probably love diversity but they don’t go into the patisserie, bakery or chip shop.
I feel better now. Perhaps I should pay you $50. (Do you have a section on psychotherapy? Or is it less hip now that CBT is flavour of the month?) If you’re ever in the UK, come and visit!
It’s charity…
http://www.brainbooger.com/2/post/2009/09/twilight-part-6.html
Sorry, I think this one is all people all races, every freaking day at work I hear how so and so’s child is “the smartest two year old ever”. Doesn’t really matter race…i think everyone who has children and give a crap does this….
for the record it is crazy annoying if everyone were a genius the word would have no meaning, however, I do not tell people this becase I know they will be insulted.
At the same time if i hear about how another three year old who knows their colors is obviously going to be the next president I am seriously going to puke!
Freaking a. I hate that my sister is considered “gifted” so every white teacher she has goes crazy for her
My algebra II teacher spent 10 minutes last week teaching us how to do functions and then told us we were ahead of “probably about 99.99999999% of everybody else on it.” (Note that I go to a private, Catholic school in Iowa, so only about 4 people out of 200 aren’t completely white.) My guess is he wanted us to relay that message to our parents.
Reminds me of a comment by woman who taught in an elementary school gifted and talented program, “There are a lot more talented than gifted”.
God this is like, so insightful! I am SUCH a shit – a racist, a homophobe and have delusions about my child. Imagine thinking he is bright and wanting him to succeed at school! Whats’ wrong with letting him take his chances – survival of the fittest and all that.
I will immediately pull him out of his nice school immediately and send him to the owrst dump I can find. Thatll teach the little bugger to be white AND male.
With any luck he’ll leave education functionally illiterate, turn to crime or work for minimum wage. How PC is that!
‘Gifted’ people who tell others that giftedness means nothing are like rich people who tell poor people that money can’t buy happiness.
Jay, M.Ed. in Gifted Education
Way to go, andrew, that’s the American redneck spirit of how to educate your kids. Tell junior he can’t succeed at school or in life, because of a conspiracy to only allow rich white people to run the country…and to add Jews, gays, feminists and liberals are at fault too. Keep the child from turning into a green hippie/pinko commie/colorblind gender-neutral nerd by sending him to some private military boys school in a Middle Eastern or South American country. LOL!
It has to be certified kosher and not have a bit of good ol’ anti-Semitism. Since anime and prime time toons are popular with everyone, including Jews: “Dr. Katz, Home Videos, Rugrats and other psycho-babble toons produced by Klasky-Csupo, and anything NOT made by Walt Disney”.
Everyday, we bathe in Cracker pride! We get genius in stereo with our 7-year-old twin girls!
So great to see we have a master in gifted education to school us.
You are obviously an idiot! People come in all colors and ideologies for a reason…because we are Americans!
That is the beauty of this country. You can be what-ever or whom-ever you choose.
I raised three healthy happy children and they all were normal and were raised to be good people instead of ‘to be gifted’. My first child was tested at age three and ranked genius. Then was tested again at age five and ranked normal. She was embarrassed by the thought of being singled out and made to take gifted classes, so did badly on the second test.
She (with all of this intelligence) got pregnant at 16, quit high school and is 27 and no college in sight!
On the other hand…my youngest is dyslexic and has learning problems…she graduated with honors and is in college right now! Proving that gifted is bullshit and you get from life what you put into it!
Growing up, dude it sucked to be called “gifted”, and be placed in all those advanced programs and whatnot. Adults do eat that shit up, let me tell you. They treat you like you’re worth more than all the gold stored in Fort Knox, and then some. Parents who think they have gifted children: By god, you don’t understand how much your child would like to repeatedly bitch-slap you.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Then very well to do Asian and Muslim children are white and gifted because their parents do the same thing? Why are you generalizing this trait to whites only?. You would be more accurate to say that people who love putting on appearances are likely to do and say this about their children? This is ludicrous. By the way, I am not white, and I feel sorry for the way whites are being treated here. They are being made to look phony, supercilious, sanctimonious, arrogant, high-minded, pretentious, phony, fake, deceptive, insincere, and robotically programmed to do or say specific things in particular specific situations. Basta!
That was good Sarah. I loved the funny ending. It was perfect.
That is exactly what Sarah’s parents would say, trying desperately to convince themselves that she is gifted.
hahaha…i was one of those kids in a “gifted class”…it was probably to give the teachers a break from my constant question-asking lol
Now days they do it in school and call it self-esteem building.
If the white persons child is clearly failing at school there can only be one possible explanation. They’re dyslexic.
Recent research has shown that so called dyslexic children present identical difficulties to children that have missed out a key reading stage.
White parents don’t like this explanation. They prefer the one that tells them that their chidren’s brains are working so fast that they are actually racing ahead of the information being given to them. This explanation makes the dyslexic child not slightly backward but super intelligent.
What do they learn at school anyways? Nothing…except it’s time to sit back, have a teacher pop in a video and see if the kids will actually shut up, stay sitted and not act out.
Maybe they should teach good ol’ Schoolhouse Rock segments from ABC that originally aired in the ’70s. Well, it’s a parody from Mad TV about Nouns and let’s see how public schools can be fun places to learn…not.
Children are tested into gifted programs. Their IQ should be about 130 roughly.
nah, im whiter than anyone you ever met, and this stuff is hilarious. why cant we laugh at ourselves? people just dont understand that today in america, generalizing and racial profiling is funny, as long as you arent serious. actual racism such as hate crimes and what not arent good, but jus jokin around is fine, if no one take any real offense. its like fat jokes, im fat, and there are some really good ones.
The site would be funnier if any of it was true. Most of these things are stuff some people like, and some people don’t, or stuff liberals like (Yoga, Obama, and Organic food!), or things that everybody likes (traveling? Really? So, if a person of a different race wins a free vacation to Rome, he’s going to say, “nah, I don’t like traveling?”. I’m white, and I don’t like most of this stuff. Tea? Hating your parents? Not having a TV? Really? NOBODY likes that. Humor is funniest if it has a grain of truth. This isn’t funny. It’s just racist.
Their children are “gifted” ’cause they can afford the best schools. Duh.
I was a gifted white child in the mid 70s. I even skipped first grade because I was so damned brilliant. I’m actually a moron. Boy did I fool them!
Dyslexia is a made up Greek word meaning “can’t read.” There are as many reasons kids can’t read as there are kids. To imply that there is a “fix” to every kid who can’t read is to give false hope. Some few persons will never read effectively. A child who can’t read has a problem; teachers, parents, and reading specialists need to evaluate the child and remediate the problem or figure out a work-around. Also, inability to read is one of the least of many reasons kids do poorly in school. The biggest reason isn’t poor teaching; it’s poor parenting, or the total lack thereof.
its funny how mad people are getting about this….its a joke people that think this is racist need to calm down..i’m white and think this stuff is hilarious
Im white and I think this is hilairious! Keep being rcist, and make more posts!!!! 🙂
I know many white people for whom 99.9% of these posts apply. They apply to me! It is FUNNY as hell…not racist. White folks don’t have the requisite history of oppression in the US for most cracks at them to be racist.
that doesnt excuse racism against ANY race. i never oppressed you so leave white people the fuck alone.
I have never understood why people get so flustered by racism like this.
I’m white and I love this site, BECAUSE ITS FUNNY.
I would also like sites like this on any other race, religion, gender, or age.
Funny things are funny, quit being such sensitive little crybabies.
you silly child, whenever you take aim, you have just made a decision of who is deserving to be injured by your ire…who is deserving or undeserving; whether provoked or unprovoked, just for appearing to be your opposition?
who is fair game to endure your attack? that in itself is racist…piranahs don’t eat each other…they attack the other kind,
the differences among us are exactly what we have in common.
now, go and read some Mr. John Steinbeck… examples of oppression to any human being… but since you were at a loss for an example of White oppression… it was a work of fiction, but it was surely a reflection of a very real and lasting time in American history.
you claim a gifted understanding…i do see the humor in the same ol’-same ol’ that so many people measure their social health by… that is anywhere… don’t let it keep you from letting people surprise you for the individual creatures that they are… ten bucks says you are convinced i am white… i will let you wonder… since i can see it could somehow matter to You.
Listen everyone, all of these posts apply to me except for like 2. And I think it’s great! It’s so accurate, and not racist. “Having Black Friends” “Being Experts On YOUR Culture” DON’T DENY IT! It’s just a generalization. It’s funny.
To the younger folks,
Wait till the braces come off, the acne dissipates, you have some hair on your chest, and you love and respect your parents again, and THEN, only then, write on public forums.
Until then all you preteen/teen internet whores should do the thing that white people do and take a walk (without your phone).
This is great because so many of these comments (on all of the list items) prove the website’s point about whitey.
Heh, that’s funny. I agree totally with this.
This site isn’t racist. It’s satire. Most of you people crying racism have no idea what it is because you haven’t even experienced it. And you haven’t experienced it because you’re a white person living in a white society benefiting from white privilege gained from the blood, sweat and tears of PoC your ancestors exploited.
So, STFU and enjoy this site for what it is. Hilarious S-A-T-I-R-E.
You forgot the other kind of “gifted” white kids. Where parents force their teachers into letting their kids into smart classes, and then make them work all the time so they can pass off as smart too.
Nailed it completely – I have also tested extremely high, in all of the test segments – note that I was reading the Harry Potter series in Grade 1, (great books) as well as learning what is considered to be Grade 4 math, and in high school, was placed in an academic/enhanced split course, with the best of the academic streamed kids. Many of these kids were literally failing the classes, as I was balancing a very full day, including classes, sports teams and administrative positions on school councils, as well as a volunteer job, and my own start-up business. Many of these children I was in class with managed to fail the entire course, while I managed to ace entire units (100% for the entire unit.) I have also completed 100% summitive evaluations and exams. I know I have been repetitive in this post, but I really feel that most of the taunting I expereinced in school for being a “smart kid” was becasue the other students were jealous, and knew they could never measure up to my intelligence. I sound like a braggart here, but all the statements I have made are true. I do suspect that some of the so called ‘gifted’ children should not be in the program, but I definitely belonged there, and I was definitely able to handle it. I am also white, and Canadian.
What white people really love is being pretentious. By the way pirhanas eat everything. Meat, veggies, other fish, other pirhanas (of the same species) if those bastards could eat themselves I’m sure they would. (My pirhana has eaten 5 tankmates so far). But unfortunatly I am the wrong kind of white person 🦠I can’t spell, love american football and drink cheap beer in an un-ironic fashion. And please lose your thesaurus us dumb rednecks can’t understand yer post.
Know what the BEST part is!? the black people still win! the hardest scholarship to get is by being a white male! because all white people fit into that top 5% that own all the wealth, am I right? and there are entire organizations for white people set up just to help white people progress through the workforce right? wait, wait… there aren’t? then why do black people get the NAACP? why does my college room mate have a full gpa point lower than mine, and his black ass spent his government funded tuition check on a grill, a playstation, and a new car – when I had to take out a loan and go into debt, under the requirement that I was full time, when his lazy ass goes to class 7 hours a week? You might think it’s funny, but at least as a pasty white boy, I know I earned my spot at my university – and if he is fine letting the government wipe his ass? That’s his business… by the way… he is twenty four years old, and I am nineteen… not that it means anything – just my side of the story.
I am a teacher(,) and white people use this one (what “one”?) to segregate their children from the less desirable children of color. It is really how (did you mean to put this here?) amazing how many gifted white children there are when it means that your child can go into a special class set up for (white only? Your message is unclear) gifted children.
A. You are not a teacher, or you would have spared us the abomination that is your grammatically terrifying, and intellectually void piece of writing.
B. I am a white teenager… and I sure hope you don’t teach any of my fellow “gifted” students; race aside, at the very least please tell me you are not an English teacher… As you have thus far served to de-legitimize not only teachers, but the “children of color” which you so verdantly defend.
C. I am an active member of the multicultural awareness club at my school. I am the only white person in the club, because it is basically a black organization. Our step teams are modestly named “Silver and Gold” for the boys, and “Diamonds and Pearls” for the girls.
D. Bling Bling, Dolla Dolla Bill Y’all, thug life for sure. homie
No one is forcing you to read this site! if you don’t like it, don’t read it! The author is making a joke, and like with any other joke, someone has to be at the butt end of it! Whether it’s blonds, popes, or white people, someone has got to be made fun of in order for a joke to be funny!
Yes, it sure is tragic how much white protestant males are discriminated against. Good for you for pulling yourself out of the traditional white male stereotype and making something of yourself without a society that enables you in every way possible.
Chris, your bald spot is showing. Plus, it’s physically impossible for white people to take walks without their phone.
Phones. Sorry to all the grammar junkies.
Are you offended? Because thats something else you like, assuming you are white.
Uhhh….I am white and did not pay for college. It’s called get Sciences degrees.
Well said, pal. You took the words out of my mouth.
I literally never get sick of this web site!
Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
I hate being gifted. My parents act white torwards it.
Its sad but true!!!!
mothering.com has a lot of moms with spunky little white gift kids. Some of them even claim that they kids spoke to them from the womb. I think they’re all mentally insane. Nuff said.
I hate talking to any parent about their kids. No one cares NO ONE but the parents themselves. I don’t care if little Brittany colored in the lines! lol.
I do however; believe tha tpublic school is not the best way to teach any kid…gifted or not. My sister was reading newspapers before kindergarten, and they were teaching a letter a day…yeah, of course she got bored. She ended up homeschooling instead, and is now graduating with a Doctorette out of London. Is she gifted? No. she just works her ass off.
This website obviously is stereotypes, but this is so true (I would know I am white and go to school with “gifted” kids.) Look at “lora.” She didn’t even spell he name with a capital and she’s still “gifted.” It pisses me off. White people(and Asians for that matter) go to the best schools(that their parents pay for) and then when they get good SAT scores and grades (which their parents paid for their tutoring) are then “gifted.”
Yes. That website is mentalhilaroious
every white child is either gifted, and/or has a learning disability
Diagnosed with ADHD, never got double time on exams. Our school had an ‘everyone is equal’ mindset. There was no such thing as learning disabilities. There was a ‘special’ class, but it was for children with Autism and Down’s Syndrome, etc. It only met for part of the day, so the same kids also had classes with everyone else too.
Did I mention it was a mostly white school (I can’t actually remember anyone else that wasn’t white, but I tend to be racially blind. There probably were a few that weren’t white…)
Ahhh…suburbia.
They also give their kids dog names & their dogs kid names. Both species are gifted.
I haven’t found this obsedrvation to be true so much as an offshoot that every race seems to believe. Parents don’t claim their kids are gifted so much as they are a “Straight A Student”. Every child, no matter how much they pick their nose and no more about ‘the Hills’ than say the Constitution, is a prodigy happily putting any test or concept to shame with their mental prowess.
The oddest thing about this process is the insistance schools have that their parents tell the world about it by ruining their bumpers with a permanant sticker. “Proud Parent of a (name your elementary, Jr. High, or High School) Student”. I’m so proud I will knock $1200 off the value of this car to prove it and crystalize that one point in time when my child really did make the honor roll! Never mind next year, next school or how they perform in their chosen field, should they ever choose one. And now (looking at the list much later than you posted) see ‘bumper stickers’ is there. Ha!
How about the new ‘white fad’- not having a clue what to do in life: The perpetual undeclared major. I saw something like this in a movie ad.
Girl: so, what’s your major. (ready to dismiss guy as another over-acheiving mindless yuppie).
Guy: nothing. I don’t have a clue.
Girl practically wets pants at guys willingness to ‘rebel’ against the ‘system’ so openly. Offers him a seat and her phone number.
The new upper class white dream: do absolutely nothing and get hot chicks.
This so funny!!! My 6 and 9 year Kids are on their school’s chess team and we have to go to monthly tournaments. While at the chess tournaments, I noticed the white parents read books with titles such as “How to Parent a Gifted Child”, “Parenting Gifted Children” and other such books. They sit around talking about how smart their child is at everything. Then when we go check their child’s ranking, their “gifted” child is towards the bottom five!!! I asked one of the parents with the “gifted” child why their child was loosing all his matches, the parent said, “Oh the other kids playing are so slow and it’s causing my son to loose his concentration.” I turned to look at the kid and he was eating his boogers while staring at her butt!!! The parent blames the kids that are winning!!! But her child is still gifted!
Well, we used to call them dorks, so I guess dorks have grown up to call there offspring gifted, when maybe they should really be called touched…
Doctorette? What is that? A female doctor? I think the word you were looking for is doctorate. Anyway, it’s obvious you don’t have one……
Uhhh the author of this blog is WHITE. It’s sarcasm! If you don’t know what that is google it.
in addition, wp love asperger’s syndrome…turns the frown of little justin or tiffany’s sociopathic behavior upside down.
Some have BOTH! they’re doubly gifted.
Seriously, I know. I’m a white child that has an incredibly high IQ (read: decently smart) but a debilitating learning disability (read: flirts with guys and smokes weed instead of paying attention)
thats really offensive my brother has aspergers and he is not sociopathic nor falsely diagnosed
My theory is that a lot of women really get used to the SAHM thing and don’t want to go back to work. Can’t blame ’em. Sucks to have to get up early and slog through a long commute and do some boring ass job all day. But hey, convince your husband there’s something “wrong” with one of the kids, find complicit doctors to diagnose and medicate them, and bingo-bango! You got yourself an indefinite SAHM extension!
“I can’t POSSIBLY go back to work now! Not when I’m dealing with Snerdley’s depression/ADHD/bipolar/whatever! He NEEDS me to be there for him!”
Of course the downside is that once you’ve instilled such a sense of helplessness and dependency in the kid, you then realize you’re going to have yourself a dependent for the next 50 years.
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I don’t know – I’m skeptical. I think the Asians got us on this one.
this is so true, in junior high i was a shy, white, C student and i was put in a gifted class because my teachers believed that i slacked and didn’t do my work because (they thought) it was boring and too easy for me. and the greatest thing, the gifted class was easier, we just discussed issues and searched the internet, no homework.
There’s a difference, most asian kids probably ARE gifted.
you’d be suprised.
better work ethic maybe, and persistence pays off eventually
but in terms of conceptual ability, esp critical and crossdisciplinary – often less so.
ROTE learning just isnt very good at making people smart.
educated, but not smart.
Applies to many people we know…
The ironic part about being gifted is that we have less homework than AP… Yay slacking! And at every school I’ve been to, they majorly stress that everyone is special and smart… then they kick them out of the gifted class. Yay hypocrites!
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Wrong. They are smarter, whites only score higher in bullshit like trivia on American pop culture.
Asian people are white people on steroids. One mention of their kid not being a future doctor/lawyer/banker who also happens to be a concert pianist and they will never talk to you ever again. The only trump card you can pull after that is to say that their son/daughter looks like a young and should go into the entertainment industry. Fact.
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The blogger needs to add “Indigo Children” to this list.
99% of Indigo children are born to white Northern Californians.
Indigo Children are super evolved and emotionally gifted. They find this crass world intolerable and act out in protest. They may spit, hit, have fits or destroy property.
They are a special gift.
It is important to keep an Indigo away from non-whites or working class whites because these people are likely to not understand, become frightened and try to “help” by taking the child to a doctor with a medical liscence.
Charter schools and GATE classrooms are usually the best place for these special people.
My nephews must be Indigo Children. They act horrible all they time. My sister thinks their teachers just don’t understand how to challenge them.
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In my late 30s, I learned that I may be gifted AND learning disabled (a.k.a. GLD or “twice exceptional”), a designation that didn’t even exist when I was a child.
As a child and adolescent, I didn’t belong with the “smart” kids because I hated school and didn’t quite have an honors-level GPA (my grades ranged from As to occasional Ds). I didn’t belong with the “dumb” kids because even though I hated school and rote learning, I loved to read and study on my own. The “average” kids who got Bs and Cs, and cared mostly about their social lives? I belonged with them least of all.
Now an adult, I still don’t belong anywhere. . .frankly, it’s lonely.
I go to a private university and I feel that they still are (perhaps subliminally, but nevertheless) buying into the gifted child nonsense. I went to my academic advisor recently, who received a letter of recommendation from one of my gifted class teachers explaining that I tended not to do my homework in his class because I did not feel challenged enough (bullshit). He also received another letter from an administrator noting that my GPA was lower than others that had been in the applicant pool because I used my time more frequently debating with faculty (bullshit) and on extracurricular activities (bullshit, unless Facebook counts as an extracurricular).
He looked at my transcript, smiled, and not only passed me on to courses that I had not taken the prerequisites for, but I was given a full scholarship. Labels FTW.
Join the club. Wait there is no club for us.
This article in the boston globe made me think of this post
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/melrose/articles/2010/08/29/in_melrose_a_school_option_for_the_gifted_child/?p1=HP_Well_YourTown_links
This article in the today’s Boston Globe made me think of this post
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/melrose/articles/2010/08/29/in_melrose_a_school_option_for_the_gifted_child/?p1=HP_Well_YourTown_links
“But NEVER under any circumstance imply that their child is less than a genius. The idea that something could come from them and be less than greatness is too much for them to bear.”
excellent advice
“They are too creative, too advanced to care about the trivial minutiae of the day to day operations of school.”
Yup, that describes me, I’m a big picture kinda of guy. I leave the trivial details of my ideas, like the execution of them, to other people.
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LIke when White people put bumper stickers on the car saying their child is an honor student.
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I always thought the most intelligent children are home-schooled, because the parents fear when their “gifted” kid enters public school, they get burned out and stressed. That’s one way to teach a child how to survive in the work world full of demands, deadlines, expectations, etiquette, regulations, rules, laws, customs, social cues or folkways. For parents wanting to isolate them like you’re a class aide in a special ed. class doesn’t do their child any good.
Pffff. You’d assume so. While my younger brother is doing MUCH better in homeschooling (he was flunking before), his classmates are some of the most ignorant little fucks I’ve seen. Their parents are nauseating, as well. Only in this charter program have I heard the statement “Gonna do a black baby doll drive because there aren’t enough black baby dolls..” Weird shit. Oh, and I don’t wanna hear your child play “Chopsticks”, either. Especially not while they’re discussing Hannah Montana.
Maybe you think this, but I tend to hope my doctor/nurse/engineer/etc has done a lot of ROTE learning.
ahahahahah… this is hilarious, and so freaking true. I have ADHD and ‘executive disfunction’ (means even if i want to, I just don’t get shit done T_T) and yet, I’m just sososososososososososoooo smart. Oh, mari, you’re so smart. But you’re very smart! You have SO MUCH *POTENTIAL*… Bullshit. I mean, yes, I am pretty intelligent, but at those times it really ticked me the hell off because I was a problem child and I knew it, I was really tired of hearing how smart I was and didn’t see it helping anything. I was damaged goods from the womb on, and lacked any focus and motivation. The only kinda-smart kids that understood the material enough and did all their work quickly and efficiently, they were successful. Not me… But yeah, most of the kids in the gifted programs are bitchy girls that manage to do all their work and still spend every night making out with their boyfriends. I could wrap my head around strange philosophical concepts, but hell if that was helping me get through middle school. …There’s a fuck-load of bullshit in this world. I think that’s the moral of the story.
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I’m white and i remember when i was a kid i didn’t play with toys. I was more into exploring and looking for snakes and leaning about the world. This is so true. The white race is gifted beyond imagination we should breed with our own so that the white man and women will live forever.
ahahahahah. this reminds me of a few months ago, when i was in my chem class making up a quiz i’d missed. at the same time my teacher was having a conference with this (white) lady and her son. now, you have to understand, this kid is a total slacker. i see him roaming the halls during class all the time.
anyways, the teacher had given this kid an F for the first quarter. so this mom dragged her son down to the classroom and was haranguing the teacher about how smart her little willy was, how he was so advanced in science, how he had placed “very advancedly” (her words, not mine) in the state science exams, which i’m pretty sure a kindergartener could pass, and how obviously there had to be a mistake.
i hope that mom enjoys having her “gifted” child taking up space in her basement for the next thirty years…
People don’t have “giftedness” unless they unwrap that package and use it. Ability does NOT equal achievement.
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Haha…this is funny! I was in the “gifted” class in elementary school…and now I’m in Med School. I didn’t like the “gifted” class, though, because I thought the teacher was very snotty and an elitist.
Haha I was “gifted” in elementary school. But I did good in school because I would get a whooping if I didn’t, lol. Another one is alternative ways of raising children (let’s try to shrink your head to find out why you are wetting the bed stuff) and parenting and self help books!
Your straight nuts. I really hope you’re joking in the last half of your comment. Because if not your straight nuts and I mean straight nuts like civil war nuts and jumping off a building nuts. I really hope your kidding.
I’m curious — what do you all propose will be a good solution to this problem?
This really provided me with a much needed laugh. I have watched a lot of kids over the years and not a single one of them wasn’t gifted. Amazing! It must be my degree from a highly respected art school that allows me to work with these children- I’m seen as creative and therefore worthy. I often feel like just “the help”. Some parents will drop their kids off along with the ones I am watching and not even offer me a dime in return! They have original drawings by Raymond Pettibon, David Cooper (of “Pip and Norton”) and Chris Ware hanging on their walls- and yet fully expect me to watch their offspring free of charge. I am near crucified if they find I have fed their kids anything that isn’t organic- these individuals truly believe that consumption of a hot dog will cause their kids’ I.Q. to drop 40 points. I laughed my way through “Whiter Shades of Pale”- thanks!
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IKR all the white gifted kids at school are idiots or stoners or both…and blacks are okay i mean i’m amazing but the true geniuses are those very rare Asian children. Like every single one of them is gifted you can’t find them in regular classes
You direct this at “gifted children,” but you fail to realize in the video they state that college is good for children who can already be doctors and lawyers.
You can tell who was in charge of this video by the way science, engineering, and mathematics are completely ignored.
as a student, i find this very evident in my school and quite absurd. i really don’t appreciate how kids that are unfocused and lazy are treated so special and the kids that work hard and dedicate their time to things aren’t given any appreciation or recognition. i think people (especially parents) just need to accept the fact that not everybody is or can be gifted.
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I believe they actually give them a test where they must have an IQ above 130, so in reality, those who qualify as gifted are only 2% of the population. And certain states don’t even have those programs. If people are just saying ‘gifted’, then they’re distorting what it is.
I constantly hear about people’s gifted children (especially girls for some reason.) “We had Ashley tested, and she’s gifted,” etc. Then, of course, they want Ashley placed in a special curriculum to nourish and expand her giftedness. Mom can then brag (in the form of a complaint,) “They only have AP Social Studies and not Advanced Molecular Biology which is what our gifted Ashley needs to get into Yale.”
Oddly, the real shining stars rarely have egotistical parents. Consequently, most school districts develop AP or gifted courses more to satisfy egos than to identify and advance truly brilliant students.
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and of course, IQ tests are as white-centric as all get-out.
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this is false. Morgean and I are both gifted and black. Suck on that.
It’s mean to tongue/cheek not as a given.
You’re not gifted enough to capitalize the first letter of your sentence, though. We’ll “suck on that” as soon as you’re finished.
ha you dont get it your just a racist
Wow what a crappy article. If you believe this crap, your a fool. And you probably watch that ridiculous show Honey Boo Boo and think that little girl is smart. I will agree that the mom is savy enough to take advantage of her disfunctional family to make money off stupid people that watch the show. But seriously, this article is a waste of internet space.
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My 3rd grader put rat feces in the ice cream at the grade school lunch line, telling classmates it was “raisins”.
Before reading your article I felt shame over my parenting skills. But now I can take honest pride, knowing my little guy is “gifted”!
I am (‘sniff) so eternally (wipes tear from eye) grateful. Thanks!
I can’t believe an article like this was even printed. What informational data can come from this? Hello !!! Obama is President and we are still talking about racism? What more do you want? You are living in the distant past whites are more like the minority nowadays . I will never read a other one or the articles in theses great school emails . I am unsubscribing ASAP. Whoever would allow an article like this to go public shows you the type of sad Obama world we live in . Too bad.
It really does seem like a social jerk hangout. You should meet some of the teachers! They think because they are teaching these fake gifted children (well actually some of the children are but the majority are not) that it makes the teacher look gifted and they are constantly bragging about themselves. The white parents of the gifted child, I have always wondered who’s dick did they suck to get their child in that program because their child seemed more rehearsed than anything else. I feel sorry for those children. They will grow up to be just as stuck up as their mother.
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This blog is funny but this article is just ridiculous.To be identified as Gifted you must be seriously evaluated by a school psychologist and take many tests.I know many white kids who were rejected while many black students were recognized as gifted. Basically, I wonder if a “white” person wrote this. You are knocking a special education program that is a great service to children, black and white. If the testing or programs are corrupted, that needs to be addressed but “Giftedness” in itself is not fake. Oversimplifying race or the needs of any group in an age of terrible misunderstanding is not only lame, it is pretty to black people to label something like being “Gifted” as a “white thing.” You are reinforcing a racist taboo that is going to hurt gifted children of color who need to understand why they are different and get the stimulation and help that they need. Once again, THIS IS A NARROW MINDED POST. I don’t know what is happening nation wide but where I come from the gifted program is for students of all walks of life and it is very misunderstood. This post is bullshit.
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I was labeled “gifted” and I can speak numerous languages but I also have bipolar I disorder and ADHD. I can learn to do things a lot faster but to ME. Gifted kids are the ones that can sing like no tomorrow with no practice and have this angelic quality or can paint like crazy or write the most amazing things. I could do 1 and 3 with some practice but the label is grossly overused. I can speak advanced level in 3 of them too… I am hyper, in a rush to learn, obsess and never forget. That makes me the ex from hell, not gifted… I am smart yes but not gifted.
Every modern gifted kid seems like a total freaking brat and their laissez-faire airhead liberal mothers says, my kids are gifted, they’ll sort it out on their own… I would’ve killed mine. I also went to a once a week class with the narcissists, aspies and rest of the golden children but I told them it was boring and I was too hyper so I got the trouble maker label… naturally I faked taking the dexedrine those times… a lot of them are up tight obnoxious snobs but these days, they put us old school hyperactive troublemakers to shame.
and Bipolar Disorder… the old school manic depression (bipolar mania with psychosis) tends to be the bipolar type with some instances of genius in the creative sense (not me) and it seems like the low range bipolar II disorder ladies that cycle and often have more Narcissism or Borderline issues make scrapbooks together when they aren’t hating each other or in some day in day out drama… I have the old school type, they think people like us are schizo… I think they are drama queens so we’re even….
I think the strengths I have are very strong and come in handy but in a break up… ex from hell.
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Note: I did graduate easily and in the top 20 but I was suspended every year, went to prison for kicking in some thief’s door and stealing back my lb or marijuana and beating the shit out of both of them, been in mental hospitals, cocaine and also went through school double majored and really hate college, it is a waste of money and is boring…. I finished work too fast in AP classes… they were dull and I hated it. I always was pumped full of dexredrine to do more and more…
My IQ from what I recall was a series of numbers and the highest was 162 and the lowest was 138. I also look nothing like a “gifted” person. I have tons of tatoos, used to dress goth all the time, have learned to manipulate people into exposing their bullshit easy. I am bisexual so relationships aren’t easy but I can smell one out within 1-2 minutes of first meeting them. Especially when they are interested. I would use my grades and smarts to bully people who bullied me after manic episodes. I tend to be Mr. Counterpoint…. in college, I could come out of nowhere in a social issue debate with 2 sentences and set the class ablaze into a half hour… I wasn’t a show off smart person. I like those ones that sound overly intelligent and mess up royally…. like platypus/octopus plural… to sound smart people will say “platypii” but that isn’t correct… and I let them know that it is a greek word… platypus/platypodes, nucleus/nuclei, latin, walrus/walruses Germanic…
I like to hit the insecure ones… they are usually insecure and word but this gifted class and group horse shit is just that… entitled narcissistic white bitches with narcissistic kids.
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Wow, what a bunch of racists hypocrites.
Just imagine if some white person did a blog like this on black people. You people are doing yourselves a massive injustice with your inane, stupid comments. Hilarious, the lot of you.
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I don’t know about this one… It seems to more apply to Asian people than white people. The only difference is Asian parents beat their children, FORCE them to do well until they like it, and disown them if they don’t live up to expectations. Perhaps this supposed “white thing” is actually as a result of the infulence of a growing Asian population in other countries…
Who’s the imbecile who posted this garbage?
[…] significantly below average, or what they used to call “dull normal” before every [white] kid became officially gifted and […]
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Okay so you’re just racist-racist huh…
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[…] Comments By Paul Campos / On April 30, 2022 / At 10:19 pm / In General 11 Views Gifted children […]
You forgot to mention that white people LOVE having an autistic kid but has to be very very low on the spectrum or not even actually “on” it. White people LOVE saying their kid is autistic but in fact just lazy and underachieving. But it has to be stereotypical behavior like lining up their toys or “water falling” marbles or something.
“Oh she’s on the spectrum”
No. She’s a disrespectful BRAT.
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