parallel space-time

February 15, 2022 Forget sunny or cloudy or rainy

In the evening, when I saw my second brother talking about parallel time and space with his little lover, I was surprised that the little girl was so knowledgeable at such a young age. When I was her age, I didn't even know what parallel lines were. She must be a female Einstein.

In fact, when school was over in the evening, our children also gave me a fright. A classmate walked past us and shouted at our child with a smile, "Gift student! Gifted student! Bye!" I looked at the child with a question mark on my face.

"Why do your classmates call you a gifted student?"

"Because the school gave a result today and said I was a gifted student!"

"What is gifted...ghost...result??" The mother was shocked and I took two steps back, as if the child had become a guinea pig, and now the results of the experiment will come out.

"As I told you at the end of last semester, I took an exam similar to an IQ test, and the results are out today."

Ah~ I suddenly remembered that there was such a thing. I am not a smart person, so I never care whether children are stupid or smart among their peers. Anyway, if he's stupid, like me! Smart words are a gift from God, so I didn't trust the test at all. When I got home, I opened the thick stack of school announcements. It turned out that our children passed the school's review and were initially assessed as outstanding students. We asked parents if they wanted to participate in the assessment of gifted students in Taichung City. The text of the notice is probably to explain the filling out of the registration form, the process of participating in the Taichung City assessment, and the benefits for gifted students after the assessment results. Anyway, I know every word in the announcement, and I had a hard time reading it when I piled it together, because I was a little surprised by this, and there were too many things I didn’t understand, so I decided to call the school tomorrow to find out. What do parents do.

February 16, 2022 seems to be sunny

I called the school in the morning and asked. The teacher said that if the parents agreed to participate in the assessment of gifted students in Taichung City, and finally determined that they were gifted students, the government would have a set of procedures to follow up the children's growth until they entered middle and high school. I was so shocked that I couldn't close my jaw, this is what the gifted guinea pig means! ? The teacher continued to explain that in the elementary school, a gifted program for students will be formulated in accordance with the regulations of the Taichung Gifted Education Center, and an additional 1-2 classes of gifted courses will be conducted in the school each week. This sentence is full of the word "gifted", which has led me to a very gifted dizziness. Put down the phone, calm down, and feel that everything is weird.

Primary schools and the Education Bureau in Hong Kong do not arrange this kind of gifted test, but many schools do have separate classes, that is, elite classes and ordinary classes. If you ask me, I don't like meritocracy. I understand that society needs elites, and schools need high-achieving students to demonstrate teaching results, but is it really necessary to label students as elite and non-elite? I thought Taiwan's education was more free and loose than Hong Kong's, but I didn't expect to follow the path of elites?

When our children were very young, they showed extraordinary enthusiasm for learning all kinds of knowledge. Reading exams never bothered us both. Friends said that children must be gifted students. We just laughed when we heard it. , my husband even has a famous saying about this, "gifted students have to poop and eat, just poop and eat normally." Therefore, children have been growing up in an ordinary and stress-free environment. As long as it is not a matter of principle, we all Respect his own choice and do whatever he likes. To beautify ourselves so democratically, in fact, to put it bluntly, we are just lazy parents who throw their hands away.

After talking on the phone with the school, I thought about it and discussed it with my husband, and decided to block the words "gifted" and "assessment", so that the matter of "assessment of gifted students" quietly disappeared into the air. , I received no notice, nothing happened, and the family of three continued to live in harmony.

During dinner, the child asked, "Have you filled out the notice for me?"

"Ah? What announcement?" Fake mother.

"The notice to participate in the assessment of gifted students has been handed in by several other students in the class."

"Ah? Do you have to pay it? Can't you do it if you don't go?" My head ran at a high speed, and I ran out a set of grand lobbying words for backup, such as not being a gifted student, you can still play fun things, and you can have less every week. Take two classes... and so on. Of course, I won't tell him the truth that "your mother doesn't like you being labeled", it seems that I am too dictatorial.

"The teacher didn't say you have to go."

"The teacher didn't ask, so why don't you go? What's the fun of adding more exams to yourself."

"But I want to go, it's fun to take the IQ test! And it's rated, and there are special classes every week." Seeing the eagerness on his face, is this still a child inherited from my genes? Must be holding it wrong.

"He can go if he wants to, it's not a big deal." At this time, the father of the ultimate big boss spoke. Tsk, the comrades-in-arms that I thought have not stood together, have already defected!

"Mom, after dinner, go and fill out the notice and give it to the teacher tomorrow." Then the two gentlemen ignored me, who had ellipses on their faces, and began to discuss the questions of the school's last semester's IQ test.

The hard-working mother had to take out a large stack of notices that had been thrown into the waste paper recycling bin and study it. In addition to filling out the form, I had to submit a lot of things, including a time-limited registered envelope, which had not been sent for millions of years. I was stumped. I went to the Chunghwa Post website and didn't understand what it was. Fortunately, there was an enthusiastic red brother on LS to help me answer it, and finally I got everything ready before going to bed at night.

February 17, 2022 is determined to be cloudy

I gave the notice and information to the teacher today, and I complained about this to my friends in Hong Kong. They all thought I was sick. Isn't it a good thing to have a gifted student at home? Completely ignoring the other end of the phone, I rolled my eyes and headed out of the galaxy. What I care about is being labelled, and whether government-led gifted education is really suitable for our children, or whether it is really necessary. The fearless gentleman in my family comforted me that maybe he might not pass the test in the end. He wants to go so much, so we can't stop it. Other things will be discussed after passing the test.

I am embarrassed to ask Taiwanese parents or Hong Kong parents who live in Taiwan about this kind of thing. Everyone will definitely think that I show off a lot, and then put me on the list of the most hated parents. I had to bite the bullet and go online to research gifted education in Taiwan. First of all, google asked Wikipedia to tell me that "the academically gifted class, referred to as the gifted class, is a grouped gifted teaching program set up by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China. In terms of regulations, the establishment and management of the gifted class is the responsibility of the National Education Administration. , but the actual teaching plan is generally handled freely by each school.” Then Google kindly helped me to list a bunch of negative articles denouncing Taiwan's gifted education. There was even an article titled that Taiwan's gifted education is killing talented people . I carefully read this article with a horrible title. I agree with the views in it, and the issues listed are exactly what I worry about. I think gifted education should be in line with the development of children's gifted parts, but also pay attention to the development of EQ. In my eyes, people who can resist adversity, get along with others normally, know how to make themselves happy and have a conscience, can solve the black hole problem better than him. more important.

The gifted education in Taiwan is killing outstanding talents. This article was published by Mr. Minghui Peng on Citizens Daily in 2015. Of course, I also googled Mr. Minghui Peng by the way. He is a Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, with his cross-disciplinary critique, he focuses on many different social issues, including how to deepen Taiwan's democracy. If Professor Peng took the gifted test when he was a child, he would definitely be a gifted child, but in addition to being academically gifted, he has also become a voice for the society, which is worthy of my respect.

After reading a bunch of negative articles on Google, I put on the computer and sighed, like my husband said, don't think too much about it, let's talk about it when the results come out...

 Gifted education in Taiwan is killing talented people https://buzzorange.com/citiorange/2015/04/08/tw-gifted-class-ruins-the-genius/