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@Pickles group

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.

@Tired-but-passionate

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.

@Max_Miracle_DroppedMostOfTheirRPs

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

@croccin-champagne

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

@moss

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?

@croccin-champagne

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

@moss

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?

@ElderGod-Icefire

I remember I said to my parents "I could just get a ged" and they laughed in my face, so. It's not an option for me and idk how to feel about that

@moss

I feel like my parents are the opposite. They just want me to graduate asap and start college early.

@croccin-champagne

parents are a big con. if your family has certain standards there's a chance they're going to view it as sort of lesser. the counter to that is that in this day and age it really functions the same as a high school diploma and most jobs and colleges are accepting of it. i think only a few aren't anymore, with like ivy league being the worst about it? it does cost money, the pre tests and the actual tests. there's only four though, for the core classes. and i can link a free study guide, bcs the actual site requires you be sixteen years or older to access any of the functions

honestly? yeah. if school really is just killing you, if you can't keep up with the pressure and the general shittiness of the public school system, do it. i am not wired for common learning. standardized testing is okay but the studying and the lesson plans have never been made for someone like me. that's why doing this really was the only option left.

beside that, you'd have more time for padding your college apps, should you go there, and for working and saving up for things like a car and whatnot. you wouldn't be putting all your time into school, hw, a couple social activities, clubs, and sports and whatnot

my mental health improved so much when i finally unenrolled, and i want all of you to be able to feel as okay as you can. so if doing this is an option and you want to, i fully support it. hell, i'll link sites to help and even direct you to the ged site.

@ElderGod-Winter-The-Renegade-Legionnaire book

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.

That is very different than what I did. We just had a semester class and an hour and a half long class about Calculus. For half a year. For us it was just easier to do it that way.

@moss

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.

That is very different than what I did. We just had a semester class and an hour and a half long class about Calculus. For half a year. For us it was just easier to do it that way.

i haven't done calculus yet but at my school, there's pre-calc then you take either calc ab or calc bc depending on ur level

@ElderGod-Winter-The-Renegade-Legionnaire book

And?

And what? I was just weirded out as to how the classes were split. That may just be my uncultured Alaskan coming through. But do you guys have split lunches? And like an advisory period? That's what we had and moving cross country and facing different things just weirded me out.

@Pickles group

At ours, you take CP precalc and then AP Calc AB (because CP doesn't cover calc ab during last quarter) or honors precalc and then AP Calc bc or ab depending on how you did last quarter. Technically we have split lunches? Not by grade but our school is far too big to have it all at once. I don't even know what an advisory period is so we probably don't have that

@actual-fandom-trash

in my school we had 4 lunches, all of which took place during 4th period. so you'd half an hour of lunch and one and a half hours of class time. we don't have advisory anymore they, just last year, changed the schedules to block schedules

@moss

At my school, we're split into 3 lunches and at my old school, we had advisory every Tuesday for 40 mins

@ninja_violinist

I think the most "gifted but still a disaster kid" thing I've ever done was when I won the… i guess you'd call it valedictorian in America? I had the highest GPA (of a class of like 25, it's less impressive than it sounds). which meant I got a check for quite a bit of money. But by the time I figured out how to cash the stupid thing in, it had expired and I didn't know how to tell my school so I just… didn't.
Because sure, I can write an essay, but tell me to write one (1) awkward email and I completely fall apart

@amber_is_in_a_loop

Amazing thanks :D
I'm going to go ahead and give you all my fascinating gifted kid story I guess
I was mostly gifted in English, French and the like. I was a pretty big teacher's pet, and was constantly reading, and my dad was also teaching me extra maths at home so I was acing maths as well (which is so not the case anymore lol). I was top of my class in French, English, Spanish, maths and biology in elementary and then more or less in my first year of high school. It wasn't work at all, everything came easily and I worked very little and was kind of an arrogant bitch. Even so I was considered incredibly bright and mature and an all-around favourite child.
Then we moved and a) classes got much harder and I was used to not working so that didn't help but b) mostly everything went to shit in terms of motivation and whatever else so! Yeah! Wonderful

@moss

Do any of u guys remember playing these enrichment games that had like chart and you had to match people to,say theyre favorite colors?

@kingnocedas group

@Whats_Up_Its_Brooklyn @PatienceKills

what kind of gifted kid were y'all. were you the 'im a prodigy in everything but math' kid, the 'only math and science' kid, teacher's pet, etc….

i was everything but math and also i was the gifted kid that teachers either ADORED or DESPISED and it was all based on whether i liked them or not

SAAAAME, like my best subject was/is english, even though i'm like average now