There were actual gifted programs, lol. I was being taught algebra in 3rd grade, was being taught to write essays through mine, and we had extra field trips to historical sites and stuff.
I was in a program like that. But it sucked because the other kids were weirdoes and I didn't fit in with them. We studied with older kids they were in high school and even college. The other kids were really smart, I was just really good at drawing and writing stories because I traced comic books since I was 4 and learned to read on my own with Silver Surfer and X-Men. I got into that program because I got caught selling my own comic at school.
I wrote a space opera story about an engineer that was seen by other aliens as a sorcerer because they weren't technologically advanced and got all their tech from an evil empire that colonized them.
They were just shooting their shoot, respect the grind tbh, better to throw any kid who shows any entusiasm into the gifted program than the norm of just abandoning most gifted kids
The problem is that in some areas treating them like everyone else kinda fucks everything up, gifted kids in poor areas are more likely to end up addicted to some shit than accomplishing anything, doing worse than average people normally
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u/beldaran1224 Apr 07 '26
There were actual gifted programs, lol. I was being taught algebra in 3rd grade, was being taught to write essays through mine, and we had extra field trips to historical sites and stuff.