>Anon, you are now 8 years old>it's time for you to read this book about a man shitting his pants and dying
only GATE/AIG kids read it, and yes I remember not to eat the pits of berries now for this very reason
Apparently trees can explode in very cold temperatures
>>24937333That was my experience. It left a huge impression on me and helped to shape my respect for nature.
>>24937368Huh, I was in GATE too and remember this book in particular out of all the other books that are just untitled blurs in my memory. Really liked it as a kid because the concept of wilderness survival seemed really interesting to me, I assumed this book was common in schools in the mid-00's or so.
>>24937630>>24937368OP, I read this when I was in gate for some gate thing
>>24937368Almost everyone in Minnesota reads it and a few other Paulsen books. >>24937368>GATE/AIG? I think I am too old to know what the fuck that is.
>>24937653>? I think I am too old to know what the fuck that is.gifted and talented education/academically or intellectually gifted.they might call it something else now, the retards who are in charge of education hate it for being "racist" but it was basically an enrichment program for kids who scored high on IQ tests when we were in 2nd grade >why did they give out IQ teststo diagnose the retards. IQ tests work pretty well for diagnosing retards and are still used to give out IEPs
>>24937679In my day the smart kids just skipped ahead a grade or two.
>>24937770gifted is like top 2 percentile. it's not like steven hawking level or something
>>24937784And? Do you think only Steven Hawking level genius' get skipped ahead grades? Might be true in the GATE/AIG era but it wasn't when I was in school.
>>24937851idk what kind of boomer you are, but I don't think you know understand percentages
>>24937908I was pointing out that your comment was a non-sequitur in response to my previous statement. The whole "gifted" terminology was just starting to used when I was in high school and in those days it meant slightly autistic and would do very well in school with a little extra attention. Your bringing up that irrelevant factoid at that point in the conversation supports that. Not judging, just saying.
>>24937333I remember reading it. It was pretty cool as a kid.
>>24937851Skipping grades was if your parents hated you and didn't want you to have any social life or friends and didn't care about your education. If your parents loved you, you went to G&T.
>>24937945gifted meant top 2% of IQ. idk what terrible boomer education you had. we had gifted programs since 1988. Gifted didn't mean you were some super genius, it's just top 2% of iq
>>24937679Your school administered IQ tests? Ours didn't. Selection into accelerated programs was based strictly on performance.
>>24937967Skipping grades was fairly common back in the 80s and my social life improved greatly after I got skipped ahead and ceased being the smartest kid in the class. School was also much more interesting and fun once it started to actually be a challenge. >>24937997You are making a strong case for the autism.
>>24937333I loved this so much, honestly fantastic
>>24938012I think they did it more than once. schools still use iq tests to diagnose retards for ieps but I know minorities seethe because they say iq is racist>>24938025ok, boomer
>>24938025You just went to class with retards a year older than you rather than actually getting put in a class with smarter kids.
>>24937333when i was in 4th grade i read harris and me, which was his best book by a mile.
>>24937333Lost on a mountain in Maine is the superior (true) story.
>>24937997>didn't mean you were some super genius, it's just top 2% of iqIt’s clear you don’t understand what that means. Try imagining the bottom 2% of iq instead. The distance from the peak of the bell curve is the same.
>>24937333just made me remember this book, was i mindraped and zogged by gate
>>24938465>Try imagining the bottom 2% of iq instead.again I don't think you understand. Mike Tyson is in the bottom 2% of IQ. they aren't as retarded as you think
>>24937333Remember the 3rd sequel where he karatechops a bully so hard that the bully gets knocked out then he goes out to the great lakes to chill out and reflect on the events of the first book?
>>24938476Anon, the bottom 2% of IQ are nonverbal vegetables
>>24938476what a stupid fucking post
>>24937333your point?you imply that the content is unsuitable for children of that age, but you don't actually state that opinion, let alone support itmaybe there's a correlation between you being an over sensitive bitch and your inability to think
>>24937679For historical context, California had a program called MGM. This was displaced by GATE. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED060585
I read it in Gateway along with the egypt game
>>24937997>we had gifted programs since 1988I do not know what you mean by ''we'', but the GATE program predates 1988.
>>24937368I wasn't in GATE, but I am Canadian
>>24939392no. you gotta be worse than bottom 2% to be non verbal vegetables. the visable tards are closer to 1 in 1/1000 than 1/50. mike tyson has like a 70 iq or pretty close to 70 and he's semi normal. >>24940069you're gay and retarded
>>24940110>reddit spacing>gay posthow's the transition going?>>24940118gate's from like 1988. they had gifted programs since the 50s, maybe earlier, but gate's specifically due to some federal law in 1988
>>24940135individual states had gifted programs before 1988 but the federal gate stuff comes from 1988 education law
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