Genius Child
A genius gets bored with school37 total reviews
Comment from ESOSTINE
A beautiful poem, dear Pam. Your exposed the danger of not recognising the genius child and support them in their learning journey. Thanks for sharing your inspiration. Well done, Pam.
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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A beautiful poem, dear Pam. Your exposed the danger of not recognising the genius child and support them in their learning journey. Thanks for sharing your inspiration. Well done, Pam.
Comment Written 23-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Thank you for your thoughtful and wonderful comments
Comment from EeanBlack
I notice how many genius kids end up alone. My friend Wayne would throw violent fits when he failed to get 100 percent on a project he worked on. He attended a university at 14. He shot himself at 16. His note simply said "We would never understand". In that statement, he is genius. I still don't understand. I love your story.
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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I notice how many genius kids end up alone. My friend Wayne would throw violent fits when he failed to get 100 percent on a project he worked on. He attended a university at 14. He shot himself at 16. His note simply said "We would never understand". In that statement, he is genius. I still don't understand. I love your story.
Comment Written 23-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. I know I was all alone through school for the same reason I was teased by the kids who were jealous of my honor performances, my gifted classes, etc..
Thank you for these wonderful comments
Comment from Teri7
Pam, This is a very well written poem about the genius child. You used great descriptive words and very good imagery of the artwork you chose. Thanks for sharing! love and blessings, Teri
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Pam, This is a very well written poem about the genius child. You used great descriptive words and very good imagery of the artwork you chose. Thanks for sharing! love and blessings, Teri
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Thank you for your wonderful comments and excellent rating
Comment from dragonpoet
Hi Pam,
This is a sad story. It probably happens more often than we think.
It is such a waste to lose the possibilities they had to make the world better. If she got exceptional grades while she was in high school, she should be given an IQ test and both the ACT and SAT tests. If she gets high scores on all of these, she should be let into college.
Keep writing and stay healthy
Have a great rest of the week.
Joan
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Hi Pam,
This is a sad story. It probably happens more often than we think.
It is such a waste to lose the possibilities they had to make the world better. If she got exceptional grades while she was in high school, she should be given an IQ test and both the ACT and SAT tests. If she gets high scores on all of these, she should be let into college.
Keep writing and stay healthy
Have a great rest of the week.
Joan
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Thank you for your wonderful, thoughtful comments, and excellent rate
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Don't mention it, Pam.
Joan
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
My kids have high IQs when they were young they got bored in school. I agree with you, schools should challenge these childrens' minds.
Well done
Gypsy
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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My kids have high IQs when they were young they got bored in school. I agree with you, schools should challenge these childrens' minds.
Well done
Gypsy
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Thank you for your thoughtful comments and excellent rating
Comment from Gunner Lil
A very good work that is an easy read.
It has a nice flow and pace that all good poems must have.
The GED is the government's answer for the education department's failure.
Thank you for sharing.
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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A very good work that is an easy read.
It has a nice flow and pace that all good poems must have.
The GED is the government's answer for the education department's failure.
Thank you for sharing.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Thank you for your wonderful comments and excellent rating
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Two of my four boys have IQ's at the genius level. Jeff was my stinker and when he got bored in class he would find ways to entertain himself. Not good. I swear I was on a first name basis with every principal the child ever had. My other son, Steven would get bored and do one of two things, read or take a nap. Only problem is once he took the book into the bathroom and missed all of math class. He wasn't allowed to take books to the bathroom again. Thank you for sharing this wonderful poem with us. I enjoyed reading.
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Two of my four boys have IQ's at the genius level. Jeff was my stinker and when he got bored in class he would find ways to entertain himself. Not good. I swear I was on a first name basis with every principal the child ever had. My other son, Steven would get bored and do one of two things, read or take a nap. Only problem is once he took the book into the bathroom and missed all of math class. He wasn't allowed to take books to the bathroom again. Thank you for sharing this wonderful poem with us. I enjoyed reading.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Through these reviews. I'm hearing a lot about children falling into the same trap here as I am myself dead. So I appreciate your wonderful comments and you're excellent rating.
Comment from jmdg1954
I read your poem with delight but also with apprehension. I do not have any children in school but a couple of my grandkids may fall into the words of your poem.
My daughter was in the G&T program, but I guess our schools created enough of a curriculum to keep them involved and active.
Not sure if it's still like that in town.
Thank you for putting this out there...
John
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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I read your poem with delight but also with apprehension. I do not have any children in school but a couple of my grandkids may fall into the words of your poem.
My daughter was in the G&T program, but I guess our schools created enough of a curriculum to keep them involved and active.
Not sure if it's still like that in town.
Thank you for putting this out there...
John
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Thank you John for these wonderful comments and for the extra star. I hope your grandkids can find themselves challenged and entertained with school.
Comment from Jim Wile
Great poem, Pam, illustrating a prevailing problem in many schools today. There isn't the emphasis that there should be on the gifted child and too much is often spent on those who value education very little.
My grandchildren live in an area here in North Carolina where gifted children are valued highly, and are put in classes with other gifted children. These classes get to go on additional field trips for enrichment that the regular classes don't go on.
They even have two levels of giftedness, and there is a class for "highly academically gifted" (with the unfortunate abbreviation of HAG) and just "academically gifted" (with the more preferable abbreviation AG.) These are countywide classrooms that students in the entire county get brought to as opposed to just the one school district. They are excellent programs.
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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Great poem, Pam, illustrating a prevailing problem in many schools today. There isn't the emphasis that there should be on the gifted child and too much is often spent on those who value education very little.
My grandchildren live in an area here in North Carolina where gifted children are valued highly, and are put in classes with other gifted children. These classes get to go on additional field trips for enrichment that the regular classes don't go on.
They even have two levels of giftedness, and there is a class for "highly academically gifted" (with the unfortunate abbreviation of HAG) and just "academically gifted" (with the more preferable abbreviation AG.) These are countywide classrooms that students in the entire county get brought to as opposed to just the one school district. They are excellent programs.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 27-Aug-2024
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I know that San Francisco area had a local high school for gifted kids, but I think below the level of high school there might not have been as much so if the students already been lost by then it might be too late.
I'm glad your grandchildren get to go to school now and thank you for your wonderful comments.
Comment from Shanbreen
Pam, you touched an important aspect of an assessment specialist's (Psychometrist's) work. We do have certain venues (AP classes, for example), for students who perform above par (an arbitrary set term). Then there are others (as you stated), who simply have no interest in school work. However, students who are interested in sciences need the ground work in science and math to speed up the process. Such students might waste precious time to self-learn (without guidance) what is already known.
While we pay more attention to those who perform below par, those students who COULD have been above are often ignored. That is one reason that assessment specialist take standardize testing as one aspect of the total picture.
Then again, a lot depends on teachers for identifying students who are interested in what they teach. Keeping in mind that the learning curve is not the same for all students, it provides an additional layer to tease out theses students in a public education system that only tries to educate students in one particular way.
There have been some effort at identifying student's learning based on their interest. Montessori system of education, for example, is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. In Montessori classrooms, children make creative choices in their learning, while the classroom and the highly trained teachers offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process. I believe there are between 2500 to 3000 such systems but mostly in private schools and mainly for elementary school children.
Of course, as I am sure you suspect, it all boils down to costs which can be prohibitive for public schools. At the present, Public School evaluate children's achievement by a comparative process which is ridiculous since students learn differently at different times. We have a statistical method (student's growth percentiles) that identifies students based on students with identical history instead of those who are in at different levels of learning in the classroom.
Yes, I wish we had the monies for evaluating each student separately. It becomes a problem because not all students' interest are in line with what is taught.
Reading your notes and the discussions you raise, makes me realize you are a very smart person. Your poem, as usual, was very well written.
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Pam, you touched an important aspect of an assessment specialist's (Psychometrist's) work. We do have certain venues (AP classes, for example), for students who perform above par (an arbitrary set term). Then there are others (as you stated), who simply have no interest in school work. However, students who are interested in sciences need the ground work in science and math to speed up the process. Such students might waste precious time to self-learn (without guidance) what is already known.
While we pay more attention to those who perform below par, those students who COULD have been above are often ignored. That is one reason that assessment specialist take standardize testing as one aspect of the total picture.
Then again, a lot depends on teachers for identifying students who are interested in what they teach. Keeping in mind that the learning curve is not the same for all students, it provides an additional layer to tease out theses students in a public education system that only tries to educate students in one particular way.
There have been some effort at identifying student's learning based on their interest. Montessori system of education, for example, is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. In Montessori classrooms, children make creative choices in their learning, while the classroom and the highly trained teachers offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process. I believe there are between 2500 to 3000 such systems but mostly in private schools and mainly for elementary school children.
Of course, as I am sure you suspect, it all boils down to costs which can be prohibitive for public schools. At the present, Public School evaluate children's achievement by a comparative process which is ridiculous since students learn differently at different times. We have a statistical method (student's growth percentiles) that identifies students based on students with identical history instead of those who are in at different levels of learning in the classroom.
Yes, I wish we had the monies for evaluating each student separately. It becomes a problem because not all students' interest are in line with what is taught.
Reading your notes and the discussions you raise, makes me realize you are a very smart person. Your poem, as usual, was very well written.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Wow this review is full of all kinds of information that I agree is relevant to the students in the school. I'm glad they have someone as fine as you are to guide them.
in my case I got extra credit activities that I could do. I was kind of a loner in school and I was teased a lot for being a straight A student and for getting the answers right in class. Nobody else raised their hands. I was already in the class for gifted children at the time.
I was told that I should give other students the chance to answer the question first and I believe that is the right thing to do, but also inhibited my own psyche
Thank you also for the extra star. It is much appreciated, my friend.
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Yes, It is hard, from a teacher's point of view, to keep the class moving. Some years back, my wife and I went to Nepal to help teachers teach, and noticed that two students dominated answering questions, and one particular girl (15 years or so) was shy to open her mouth in front of others. In their environment the "smart" (I hate to use the word) ones had the opportunities but not the students who were average or poor in their studies. I asked for a Psychologists but that would require extra money and many, many sessions. We have set up a Learning Center (in my daughter's name , "Shanbreen", providing scholarships for students who can't afford to go to school, and books for their library through donations.
By the way, when others give a wrong answer, the 'A' student would learn from that as long as the correct answer is released. I taught a graduate level course in Psychometrics at the University of Tampa, Florida, and intentionally provided a host of wrong answers (distractors) together with one or more correct answer. This gave the students a chance to evaluate and come up with correct response/s. Occasionally, I had no correct answer.
I guess they now call that creative thinking. =)
I am going off track. I am an assessment specialist and not a teacher. I gave up psychometrics a long time back ---the last paper I wrote was published in 2020.
In your case, you, as an A student, did receive recognition (given extra credits).
Hey, I am sorry for being so pedantic. I do get carried away. But one thing is sure, you are quite intelligent (another word that I don't like using) but it describes what I think of you.
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Thank you. I'll miss you.
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Me too. =)