Im not sure you are correct as no one was telling us we would be successful because of these classes when I was in them.
What we DID miss out on was seeing kids learn how to do things we already knew. This would have been very helpful when I got to the point where I didnt immediately understand the lesson and found myself having to learn how to do things years after most kids learn how to be taught to.
The real problem IMO is watching others learn is useful to the process of learning and taking the kids who know the lesson out of the room deprives them of this experience which in the long run creates other problems.
That’s only fair until you consider you may be depriving the accelerated kid of opportunities just for the point of keeping them in the class to inspire others.
In my case being in the accelerated class meant I never learned how to learn and when at 13 I suddenly didn’t immediately understand literally everything in class from the get-go I didn’t know what to do. I never experienced that before. I could read and write in paragraphs at 3 I didn’t watch my peers learn and it was a rough go for a while.
It was cool to have my critical thinking skills developed earlier, as that’s what we did with accelerated students in my town, but IMO I personally might have benefitted by remaining in the class to see how kids learned.
I gotcha. The program I was in had us go to a different class once or twice a week (varied since I changed schools a few times) instead of separating us entirely from the rest of the students, which we still did our regular classes with. I can definitely see how isolating a select few into “ivory towers” could cause some issues.
Im not sure you are correct as no one was telling us we would be successful because of these classes when I was in them.
What we DID miss out on was seeing kids learn how to do things we already knew. This would have been very helpful when I got to the point where I didnt immediately understand the lesson and found myself having to learn how to do things years after most kids learn how to be taught to.
The real problem IMO is watching others learn is useful to the process of learning and taking the kids who know the lesson out of the room deprives them of this experience which in the long run creates other problems.
That’s only fair until you consider you may be depriving the accelerated kid of opportunities just for the point of keeping them in the class to inspire others.
In my case being in the accelerated class meant I never learned how to learn and when at 13 I suddenly didn’t immediately understand literally everything in class from the get-go I didn’t know what to do. I never experienced that before. I could read and write in paragraphs at 3 I didn’t watch my peers learn and it was a rough go for a while.
It was cool to have my critical thinking skills developed earlier, as that’s what we did with accelerated students in my town, but IMO I personally might have benefitted by remaining in the class to see how kids learned.
They kept threatening us with the whole “if you don’t learn how to properly study, you’re going to find yourself having a lot of trouble in college”
That… Never came to pass.
I gotcha. The program I was in had us go to a different class once or twice a week (varied since I changed schools a few times) instead of separating us entirely from the rest of the students, which we still did our regular classes with. I can definitely see how isolating a select few into “ivory towers” could cause some issues.