re: #300 SanFranciscoZionist

I was put in a Gifted and Talented program in the sixth grade. It was the worst damn year of my life. Bar none.

The kids were mean little so-and-sos, and looking back as an educator, I realize that part of the problem was that no distinction was being made between being academically bright and organizationally bright. I could understand advanced concepts (in the humanities), and read like hell, but see a big project through on my own because, after all, I was ‘gifted’? Hell, no.

It was seventh grade for me. We were to pick a country and write a major paper on it. I had no idea how to write a major paper, and I picked Yugoslavia. Poor kid.