Danggg there are a lot of us. Welp here's my story- I was quite gifted all throughout elementary, enough that I didn't feel like the work was work. I was especially advanced in reading, ELA, science, and I guess history but math wise I stayed on the same level as my peers. I remember doing long division in forth grade and crying because it didn't just "click" like in other subjects. I actually had to learn it and take time to think. I was in an early morning advanced science program, which was perfectly chaotic. We made parachutes for eggs, and were forced to name them and draw faces on them so we'd grow attached and make sure they would make it to the ground without cracking. I also got dry ice in my eye in that class. Good times. Anyway, when 7th and 8th rolled around my "school is too easy" attitude vanished since they assign ridiculous amounts of work. Not necessarily stimulating work, just the kind that actually made me busy. Around then I kinda fell behind and am now floating around upperclassmen level, except in reading and ELA. I'm still considered advanced in those, I believe.
(this entire chat looked me in the eye as it punched me in the gut
apparently I, too, am a former gifted kid)
Danggg there are a lot of us. Welp here's my story- I was quite gifted all throughout elementary, enough that I didn't feel like the work was work. I was especially advanced in reading, ELA, science, and I guess history but math wise I stayed on the same level as my peers. I remember doing long division in forth grade and crying because it didn't just "click" like in other subjects. I actually had to learn it and take time to think. I was in an early morning advanced science program, which was perfectly chaotic. We made parachutes for eggs, and were forced to name them and draw faces on them so we'd grow attached and make sure they would make it to the ground without cracking. I also got dry ice in my eye in that class. Good times. Anyway, when 7th and 8th rolled around my "school is too easy" attitude vanished since they assign ridiculous amounts of work. Not necessarily stimulating work, just the kind that actually made me busy. Around then I kinda fell behind and am now floating around upperclassmen level, except in reading and ELA. I'm still considered advanced in those, I believe.
Jeez, dude, did you have any lasting damage from that??
Nah lol, it burned for a bit but we got it out from under my lower eyelid pretty quick. It was just a little chip. It did land in my now-bad eye though, before I had glasses, but there's no evidence that's what caused the vision problems.
hello to my people
I am that kid who has to do good and no it's not because my parents really pressure me. everyone else just expects it of me. I mean I spent my first three schooling years in a Montessori school and then went to public 2nd grade already knowing how to do a lot of things. I was gifted in pretty much all of it and I'd do my assignments and then go back to reading my book. My favorite class was honestly always my TAG class cuz all of my friends were there and we were super close. I've always gotten A's and if I don't have an A, I feel like absolute crap. About middle school is when I realized that my assignments were still pretty easy for me but I just didn't have any motivation to do any of it. coincidentally it'a also when my mental health became really bad
Even now, I'm still trying too hard to get good grades and be a good student so the teacher likes me. I need everyone to like me, all the time, it's exhausting In quarantine, we only had to do 1 assignment a week (10 weeks) and then we were done with school but I still did all of the assignments for no reason and it just
i don't even know
Lol I got perfect scores for my last quarter even though I'm just me. It sort of makes no sense. But at least I get to brag.
Lol I got perfect scores for my last quarter even though I'm just me. It sort of makes no sense. But at least I get to brag.
….did they do pass/fail? A lot of schools did that because of corona
Hello folks!
I'm still technically a "gifted" kid but definitely not as much as I was back in elementary school. My story starts back in second grade when I had just moved to the U.S. I remember this teacher taking me and a couple other kids out of class to do enrichment work or something every once in a while. The following year, they placed me in an advanced math and ELA class (my school didn't have anything advanced for science and social studies). In my other country, I we didn't have any advanced classes or anything so this was new. Lmao I remember the other kids telling me they were confused how I was in the advanced ELA class because I barely spoke English the past year. Anyways, this continued up till middle school. In 6th grade, I got an upgrade and was put in a double advanced math class. 6th grade was fine but 7th was my downfall. I was taking Algebra and it was definitely not my strong suit. I got a C in math the first trimester and I remember failing so many quizzes. I didn't have any motivation to do a lot of hw too. I also remember having a breakdown toward the end of the year because I misunderstood my final math project and didn't have enough time to fix it. Fun times. Fast forward to 8th grade, that year was fine. I had almost all As but I was pretty lazy. When quarantine hit, I barely did any work because I knew I'd pass from my grades in the past semester. Yeah, so now I'm going into 9th grade. Idk how its gonna go. I'm kinda nervous because I'm taking Algebra 2 and I sucked at Algebra. Also, if this remote learning thing continues, I doubt I'm gonna be able to do any work.
Hello folks!
I'm still technically a "gifted" kid but definitely not as much as I was back in elementary school. My story starts back in second grade when I had just moved to the U.S. I remember this teacher taking me and a couple other kids out of class to do enrichment work or something every once in a while. The following year, they placed me in an advanced math and ELA class (my school didn't have anything advanced for science and social studies). In my other country, I we didn't have any advanced classes or anything so this was new. Lmao I remember the other kids telling me they were confused how I was in the advanced ELA class because I barely spoke English the past year. Anyways, this continued up till middle school. In 6th grade, I got an upgrade and was put in a double advanced math class. 6th grade was fine but 7th was my downfall. I was taking Algebra and it was definitely not my strong suit. I got a C in math the first trimester and I remember failing so many quizzes. I didn't have any motivation to do a lot of hw too. I also remember having a breakdown toward the end of the year because I misunderstood my final math project and didn't have enough time to fix it. Fun times. Fast forward to 8th grade, that year was fine. I had almost all As but I was pretty lazy. When quarantine hit, I barely did any work because I knew I'd pass from my grades in the past semester. Yeah, so now I'm going into 9th grade. Idk how its gonna go. I'm kinda nervous because I'm taking Algebra 2 and I sucked at Algebra. Also, if this remote learning thing continues, I doubt I'm gonna be able to do any work.
I took Algebra 2 this year and even though I'm really bad at math it was easier than I thought, I passed it.
When I took Algebra, it was difficult for me, but I found Algebra 2 easier. I did geometry and it was easy, and I struggled and AP Precalculus and AP Calculus. Probaility and Statistics was also easy. It all depends on how your brain is wired. If you're on the creative side, the math involving shapes or colorful graphs are easier. The analytical side, (in this case) meaning better with numbers, will find geometry and prob and stats more difficult that algebra and calculus. (I may be wrong, but that's how I feel like it is…)
I did algebra over the summer by myself and I didn't really get most of it until it got reviewed in geometry and algebra 2. And I didn't really get some of that stuff until it got reviewed later. And then I took precalc and didn't get any of the calculus stuff. And I'm taking AP Calc BC this year so…fuuuun. I'm screwed
Geometry was easy and I'll stand by that forever
I found AP Calculus easier that AP Precalculus. For some reason, cal used different things that precal did and I found it easier.
Well we did Calc AB the last quarter and it made even less sense than everything else so.
i wish i could add some insight here but i'm going into my junior year of college and i never took math higher than precalc :')
my dumb ass has failed algebra like three times already
Im going from middle school algebra to high school geometry, algebra wasn't my strong suit, don't know how to help you
Well we did Calc AB the last quarter and it made even less sense than everything else so.
Like A days B days? Like your calc alternated day? We just had it for a semester and it was packed in.
Well we did Calc AB the last quarter and it made even less sense than everything else so.
Like A days B days? Like your calc alternated day? We just had it for a semester and it was packed in.
…..No, calculus is divided into two sections.
Ooh hello (waves) yeah I’m still technically a gifted kid, but I’d thought I’d share cuz dang this chat resonates.
So I’ve been to public school for as long as I can remember. I guess I was one of those “seems like the perfect student, but isn’t” types idk. I was in what we called “Kaleidoscope” in elementary school and the Gifted and Talented Program in middle. Kaleidoscope was fun, but the GTP was always less fun than I hoped. I’ve always found my classes to be very easy to understand, but if I had to choose one that confused me it would be science, mostly because I didn’t have very good science teachers in middle school. I never had to study for a test until recently. I used to read nonfiction and historical fiction books in elementary, and still have some today. I loved learning, and I definitely think that contributed with being gifted. Anyways funny story: My first grade teacher thought I was either deaf or autistic before she and mom found out I was gifted. I was always in my own world, so I guess I never noticed when the class was lining up or something like that. Anyway, I think elementary school for me was all about following the rules and not getting in trouble. I hated the idea of getting in trouble so much. A big realization for me was that life wasn’t always about following the rules. And also, that sometimes there isn’t always a right answer, even/especially when it came to school. As I moved through middle school, I started losing motivation. It was also around the time I realized that the American education system is a broken one. My grades were still good, but 8th grade hit me hard. I hated being stuck with hours of homework. I hated the repetition and redundancy. I couldn’t see the point of it all, yet I felt obligated to keep going for the sake of my future. When it came to my parents, they never really pressured me to get good grades, but they still had high expectations. Another funny story: I had an English assignment that was about identifying theme (which honestly, I didn’t need another assignment like that at that point) and I just snapped. I hated how easy and dumb it was. I hated how it wasn’t teaching me anything. I did the assignment, but I also criticized it. I wrote a note to my teacher at the end to never hand out an assignment like this in an honors class again. When corona happed and I moved to online school, some things were better, and somethings were worse. Science class definitely got worse. I once had and assignment that was ten pages. Ten.
Anyways. I’m now going into high school. I’m going to take a early college high school program. Hoping the college environment and preparation proves its worth. Truthfully, its hard to tell the state of my mental health rn and how it’s been affected by the whole ‘giftedness’ thing.
Whoops. As you can see, I still have a lot of feelings about this. This kinda turned into an emotional rant/ reflection of my academic career haha. Kudos if you made it through to the end.
Im going from middle school algebra to high school geometry, algebra wasn't my strong suit, don't know how to help you
I suffered in algebra and lemme tell ya, you’ll probably find geometry a lot easier, I know I did
my go to joke for my friends complaining about summer school, their next year, or how their senior year was so stressful is literally 'do what i did and drop out lmao' and as you can tell im a regular comedian. also my sincerest condolences to you guys that hate school now but are stuck going through with it because of parents. like. school became a living hell for me, hence my endeavors towards my ged, and ik a bunch of y'all feel the same
my go to joke for my friends complaining about summer school, their next year, or how their senior year was so stressful is literally 'do what i did and drop out lmao' and as you can tell im a regular comedian. also my sincerest condolences to you guys that hate school now but are stuck going through with it because of parents. like. school became a living hell for me, hence my endeavors towards my ged, and ik a bunch of y'all feel the same
Did you drop out and get your ged afterwards?
my go to joke for my friends complaining about summer school, their next year, or how their senior year was so stressful is literally 'do what i did and drop out lmao' and as you can tell im a regular comedian. also my sincerest condolences to you guys that hate school now but are stuck going through with it because of parents. like. school became a living hell for me, hence my endeavors towards my ged, and ik a bunch of y'all feel the same
Did you drop out and get your ged afterwards?
i dropped out just this year, a bit before the end of the school year because the stress was proving to be too much for me. i'm turning sixteen on the 21st, and plan to start prepping more intensely for the test. but yeah essentially that's what i'll be doing
my go to joke for my friends complaining about summer school, their next year, or how their senior year was so stressful is literally 'do what i did and drop out lmao' and as you can tell im a regular comedian. also my sincerest condolences to you guys that hate school now but are stuck going through with it because of parents. like. school became a living hell for me, hence my endeavors towards my ged, and ik a bunch of y'all feel the same
Did you drop out and get your ged afterwards?
i dropped out just this year, a bit before the end of the school year because the stress was proving to be too much for me. i'm turning sixteen on the 21st, and plan to start prepping more intensely for the test. but yeah essentially that's what i'll be doing
are there any cons to this and do u recommend it?
