Curse Of The Gifted (2000)

Post by driverdan » Sat, Feb 15, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC

mindslight wrote: post #139

bunderbunder wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never, ever, ever met someone who was well-served by skipping a grade. Myself included. Ever. Skipping a grade means giving up a full year of education. If that proposition doesn't give you pause, you probably don't have enough respect for the value of education. Even if you you get absolutely nothing out of that year aside from the soft skills you develop by sitting in a class with other kids and listening to…

I skipped both 5th and 8th, and while I obviously don't have an external perspective, it still feels like it was the right thing to do. Fewer years of "writing/literature" could have weakened my writing skills, but I think that was primarily from my non-application due the incestuous lit-crit regurgitate-the-themes-the-teacher-says educational approach, and more of this certainly wouldn't have helped. I applied mysel…