Would you spend $145 per session to enhance the chances of your child getting into a kindergarten for gifted children? If you lived in New York City, I guess you might. There seems to be a thriving kindergarten test preparation industry there. We have more and more parents who are convinced their offspring live in Lake Woebegone, where all children are above average.
I guess their willingness to spend the money is good for some parts of the economy, but is it good for the kids and for our nation?A basic question: If your four-year-old has to have extra coaching to be considered for a program for the gifted, should he be consider gifted? I think one also has to question the quality of some of these programs when one of the instructors says “You can see that when I scaffolded her, she knew it,” when she means she explained something to a child rather than placed the child on a scaffold.
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