[Oz-gifted] Update on L

[Ellen Hrebeniuk]

At 7:09 PM +1100 18/12/06, Alison Miller wrote:
>  >
>>  > She's possibly in her early 30s, so not straight out
>>  > of Uni.
>YOU CAN BE BOTH!

I know, but she isn't!

>  > yes...like my son who yesterday asked where what the
>>  *laundry room * was .... hang on...this is a 10year
>>  old boy who couldnt figure out which room in the house
>>  is the laundry ROFL
>AS DOES MY 23YR OLD!

LOL -- I thought this was a common problem among men of any age, and 
all teenagers...

>  > > funnnily enough after i got J assessed one of the
>>  teachers ( who retired at the end of the year) got
>>  about 20 of the other k-2 kids assessed because she
>>  felt they had been dismissed as *pushed* and they were
>>  actually *gifted*....
>IF ONLY PUSHING MADE KIDS THAT BRIGHT!

Yep -- a teacher friend with a gifted daughter tells me that they're 
just starting to see kids who have been to coaching college in 
*pre-school*.  The poor kids have been flashcarded within an inch of 
their lives and their parents assert that they can read.  Well, yes, 
the kids can rap out the word on the card, but they can't read real 
sentences at all.  Rather different from L and probably a lot of the 
other Oz-Gifted children!
-- 
Ellen Hrebeniuk
Sydney, Australia

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