Were You Part Of The "Mentally Gifted Minds" Program In California Scools back in the 70's?

4) I think that the "abilities" that I have that separate me from most people are a very quick intuition of the bigger patterns and the outcome, and a very keen memory (which has since faltered a bit due to a bad Lyme disease case). I often get in trouble with people because I jump ahead in the conversation three or four ideas/sentences and answer them before they can get their own ideas out. Pisses people off to no extent. I think of it as zooming out from the details and looking at the entire thing at once, and then zooming back in to the important point.

The Phoenix, i wasn't trying to argue. I just started thinking about the hearing test.

And the fact that the homework questions are obviously looking for something else, probably more than one thing.

But, seriously, I took a lot of hearing tests. Some by myself. I was taken out of class for these. I was never referred to a doctor, so apparently I could hear just fine. (I don't have a hearing aid yet.)

So, what was that all about?

I was MGM in Math and Science. I made in english as well but that was not important to me so I focused on Math and Science.
I was a year ahead in Math all through High school. No big problem. When I got into engineering in college at an elite school, it was quite a challenge going from being the top of the class to a little fish in a much larger bowl with other fish who were just as smart or smarter. That was a real challenge.

Those homework questions aren't looking for psi abilities.

Probably that's what all the hearing tests were about.

Anyone remember "Green Sleeves" being played in the darkened room, while your head was on your desk?

I can taste the Tang to this day.

I remember being appalled at the images of death and destruction. I was angry that I was asked to "project the outcome" for given situations.

The launch of a rocket, the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, the melting bodies....

I did find some archived newspaper articles as well as some links (& back info) to research & curriculum involving zener cards several years ago. The stuff I found in the file didn't have any of that but I do remember the zener card testing personally. In the newspaper articles, they talked about a summer program with specialized education including a paranormal unit which, according to the newspaper, also taught us how to simulate an ESP event. Stanley Krippner was a NAGC researcher who also was involved in paranormal research.

The stuff I found, I think is part of what set off some of the investigations in Congress.

Bbm...

These are weird questions (or weirder than the other weird questions) to ask 9th graders. I guess they could ask their parents for a raise in allowance, or vote in student or mock elections done as a class exercise. But, neither of these things are all that meaningful if compared to asking adults who have worked real jobs or voted in a real (it's from 1980, so people usually believed in elections) election.

These questions are meant to find kids with a bad side (because it's not just doing those things, it's admitting to them on a test). That was something known to be exploited.

I think these questions are for adults although I don't doubt this test was given to 9th graders.

Yep. Absolutely. Part of what was in the folder with the rest of this watching that Hiroshima and Nagasaki footage. It was a question about justification for using the atomic bombs on Japan. I did come across that video on youtube several years ago. It was a US Army reel, I think. I remembered the children in it as well as the woman who had the print in her kimono burned into her skin. Really terrible stuff.

Yes to Greensleeves, Tang, & projecting the outcome.

I'm glad you spotted those questions as they puzzled me as well given the age of the students (13-14?) that the homework was assigned to. It did make me wonder if these questions were from something that was geared towards adults and then, just given to TAG students? I've tried some searches but no luck so far.

Dumb stuff for what dumb teachers think smart kids think about.

What a pleasure it was to escape school, even for a little while.

It was hard to tolerate the accumulated dumbness of school.

Even the programs for smart kids were designed by dumb teachers to teach dumb things.

The agenda was still all evil.

I was put in the mentally retarded minds class where my questions wouldn't prove that the teachers were idiots until the class was laughing at them.

I think if they could have pushed me in front of a bus, many of them would have jumped at the opportunity.

If you are really gifted, you end up their enemy and their target.

We all ended up in GATE and now, we are all on GLP.

Heavenly Father, the simulation is showing.

I think several other questions make more sense for adults.

This was a questionnaire for an earlier program reused for kids. Imo. I know I just made a declarative sentence, but I don't have proof or anything.

I have read about them using this in earlier programming attempts. Like they would ask if someone had an imaginary friend (when they were a kid) who was bad. And they would build on the bad side.

I have seen a lot of these questions at different times and for different reasons. Like sometimes I was answering some of them, but other times I was only reading them.

Photocopies of reading material:

"The Flick of Violence", Time Magazine, March 19, 1979. Discusses the movie, "The Warriors" and how it has set off street rumbles.

"Teenage Violence and the Telly", Psychology Today, March 1979. Discusses violence on the television and its potential influence on the youth.

Lecture on "Symbols of Violence". Discusses injustice resulting in group formation and protest movements including spread of propaganda, creation of symbols, tactics and more.

Assignment: Monitor for violence. Denote the number of instances, where it occurred, info about the perpetrator (age, gender, staff/student), describe situation situation, Things listed to watch for: Threats, foul language, violent displays, put downs, signs, graffiti. Write thoughts on your findings.

Essay: Write an essay on the effect of violence on the television.

Protest movement handouts (will transcribe later).

Notes from "An Essay on War" documentary.

Reading material:

"Moral Thinking: Can it be taught?", Howard Muson, Psychology Today, Feb. 1979

"Good Samaritans at Age Two?" Maya Pince, Psychology Today, June 1979. Discusses altruistic behavior and development in young children.

Essay: Can altruism be taught in schools?

Reading material:

"The Origins of Violence" by Richard Restak from "The Brain: The last Frontier", 1979.

Essay on the book, "Cleopatra of Egypt". Estimating the stage of moral development of Cleopatra using Kohlberg's theory of moral development.

Note from me: Unsure if some or any of the above articles or documentary are available online. I think I looked for the documentary a few years ago but was unable to locate it.

that was funny.

seriously though.

did any of you start off in montessouri schools for early education? (pre-k, kindergarden?) just curious.

we were bussed from far away and i lived right behind an elementary school i could have gone to. my neighbors never understood why we did that.

Late back in but figured I'd comment. I had material almost exactly like this. In fact, most of what you posted in Feb looks eerily familiar.

My Mother claimed to have some of my work that she said she would send to me, but never did. I was working on material like this in 6-8th grades. Lots and lots of current events type stuff.

I also have an interesting question - do any of you feel like you are still being monitored potentially? Like certain things have happened in your life and the outcome appears guided and unnatural rather than organic? I'm not really interested in spilling personal details nor am I asking for anyone else's. If you have experienced this, you will know what I am talking about. I'm just curious if I am alone in this suspicion.

Can you see into the future? Do you follow logic or intuition? Can you see events and people remotely? Do you believe we can communicate through our minds? Can you influence events from a distance? Do you believe in realms beyond our own visible one?

And, lost importantly, can you manifest things into reality and do it to help people and not for your own benefit?

let me expand on this.

i was in a school for the gifted AND i was pulled out a lot. in 7th grade, i basically had my own curriculum and continued with special lessons all throughout my education.

my brothers did this as well.