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.
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.
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.