Abused children of the GATE program, laying dormat, skilled without purpose, stolen from normalcy and left directionless - what happened to us?
The federal government approved a grant in the 1970s to school districts that provided programs for special education. There was no limit to the number of programs, and no stipulation on how to spend the funds. The mentally disabled got classes, speech and ESL children got classes, and so did the Gifted and Talented children - us. Using government-provided IQ and ESP tests children were identified, corraled and isolated into gifted education classes where they were neglected and left socially outcast, given glorified babysitters and an endlessly regurgitated series of tests and cognitive experiments for lack of any established cirriculum. Over time, our stolen childhood resulted in successes and failures for government purposes, mostly failures - us. Social awkwardness, addiction, anxiety, depression, identity issues and most importantly the overwhelming desire to pursue perfection.
We learned to manipulate, to outthink, to skirt around the edges of trust and identify key meta-narratives in our society. We were successful failures at our once loved pursuits and careers, dropping out when it all lost meaning. We came here. Now we sit and watch the world being pressured into self-isolation, pressured into what made us failures over engineered crises.
That is why we are awakening now, why we are finding each other now, why we are desperate for a role now, a purpose. GATE children, that purpose can lie in exposing this program for what it still is, or it can lie in something higher. This is your time to choose.
GATE nonsense is just an attempt to build a psychological profile of contentious people and flatter their egos, then string them along into a victim complex.
Isaiah Gonzalez
I remember a old white dude in my gate classes from elementary school. A very John Hammond type guy. Weird that I remembering him now. At that point in my life I had considered him very important to me and me to him but I remember at some point he just abruptly grew cold of me and almost outright shunned me. After that my life seemed to undergo immense change in various aspects. The fuck was the Gifted and talented program about, guys??
Bump I fucking hate these threads because I was in GATE for a relatively short time before leaving it, all knowing nothing was off. I was also placed behind then ahead in early reading assessments. What the fuck Yas Forums I hate that all of this is real.
Jackson Hernandez
Money, ultimately. Extra cash for extra classes and no one cared what happened to the kids they isolated to get the funding. Even now, just trying to find out what happened and build some sort of goal gets shilled out of existence.
Jeremiah Perry
The sad fact is, children won't remember much, they usually assume they have to do whatever adults tell them to in elementary school and there's plausible deniability if any notice something wrong. It's a great cover for abuse.
Connor Ramirez
Anyone else notice becoming transgender after taking hearing tests as a kid????
Jose Wilson
jannies just gonna move it to b anyway
Elijah Jenkins
Is this posted a certain time every day? I feel like I’m always reading it before bed.
Today I had ringing in my right ear twice
Jayden Cox
Let them move it if they have to, the reality is this is a political scandal that has been co-opted into being an /x/ topic. Enough of us have seen this and are becoming aware of what happened, some of us are now actively fighting it. Awareness is one thing but if people wind up just wanting to talk about astral projection they have every right to move the thread.
Matthew Rogers
Orthodox Christian night terror user here. From what I've gathered from other anons some more common traits of GATE kids are as follows >insomnia or general trouble sleeping >night mares/terrors >a single dot like scar in between two nuckles or very near them, more commonly right hand In addition to these
Left handed here. Did they reject me because of it?
Mason Taylor
>another gate slide thread I was in GATE. You larpers are so stupid.
Elijah Butler
I post one around now every few days if none have been active on any boards.
Connor Phillips
Dont know. Out of the 6 people with scars I talked to, 5 had them on the right hand. The scares are usually no thicker than a toothpick in diameter and no memory of how you got it. As said before more often on your right hand and in between two knuckles
Josiah Russell
Fuck. This. Shit. >Checked boxes in all fields....
Welcome to the club. To help with the night terrors make the sign of the cross on your door and sleep with an ikon of Christ in the same room. Sleeping with a weapon beside your bed also sort of acts like an adult security blanket. But if you have a family it might not be good. It may legitimately be religious or it might just be the security blanket concept. If you're pagan, something relevant to that may help.
Joshua Thomas
Yeah man same here other than the Isreali GF part. She tried getting me and I rejected it for some reason what a fuckin retard I always thought I was for not pursuing her. It was even in an art class study hall what the fuck.
I have so many weapons scattered around my house. It helps, but it does put the family off a bit. I just never know when I'm gonna get v&.
Kevin Russell
No memory of a needle but yeah right in between digit 2 and 3 I've hated likes since I was 15 and found Yas Forums so that wasnt a problem Put one next to you when you sleep
Yes, actually. I have a partial list of every school district in the U.S. with a current GATE program (as well as some back to 1995 so far), working on completing that soon and posting here so people can cross-reference anonymously, as well as a few former principals who have talked to me about it off the record. I've been pulling records and have a near complete setup on my own school district, hoping to eventually build a case and get a few other anons to contribute.
It's been fun documenting how long it takes for you to show up to these threads and the degree of creative shitposting you bring. It goes from sarcasm to "stop being retarded"-tier fairly quick. Welcome back!
Jaxon Sullivan
Almost every elementary and middle school had some sort of GATE/gifted program. The problem is finding the teachers of said program. I remember getting tested for it, and even having done an IQ test and my mother making a big deal of it whenever she talked to friends how I was in it. But all my memories are vague and no memory of a teacher.
Chase Hughes
What the fuck man I always had that scar too, can't find it now because I am old and my hands are beat from working.
William Brooks
This is specifically a small needle hole like scar in between your knuckles.
yeah i enjoyed making catapults and winning the Mesopotamian "risk" type game we played. like seriously what the fuck are you talking about? It wasnt like, fuckin, MKULTRA, it was just a little bit more advanced math than other classes and some cool interactive projects like a Stock Market game. Really fun and useful stuff, desu.
Now GRANTED, I only did GATE in 5th and 6th grade and not 4th thru 8th like many others did, and i left it to stay with my homies and not have to go to school across town. And some of my former classmates are now certainly fucked up losers like you're describing.
BUT
I will maintain this:
It is not the fault of the "GATE Program" like youre insinuating, nothing about competing in MathOlympiad fucks you up that bad. You're just a shitty loser idiot socially awkward retard with bad parents who wants to blame others and not fix yourself.
It took me until i was around 22 to fix myself from being a self-spoiled "smart kid" and become a hard worker. Just grow up and you'll be fine.
First thing you can do is stop posting these threads because its really fuckin gay, shut the fuck up and go do some fuckin pushups you queer.
~former GATE student, 99th percentile on the GATE test
Ryder Cooper
I dont see any needle marks on anyone
Grayson Rodriguez
they're being retarded schitzos, this thread belongs on /x/
Christopher Lopez
you were simply not special enough. sorry for the reality hit.
Grayson Rodriguez
SeeAnd here in between 2 and 3 another pic as well of mine. Not saying they are definitely from needles. But it's a single pin prick like scar
I was in GT. Parents pulled me out of school in 5th grade, I entered college at 13. Went to school, graduated at 18 (last year was part time, dad got lost his job so I got a job to make ends meet). Went to law school. One of the youngest ever to graduate.
Fast forward to now, I'm literally just a nobody attorney. No shadow government or psychic powers, I didn't change the world, I have mortgage and a wife (weirdly....part jew, heavily into art), and a 2 year old kid. Other than to my daughter, I am literally nobody special.
The great trick of GT programs or any of that shit is the implication they will do something important.
Luis Moore
You do know this all sounds as cope as it could possibly be >gifted students sabotaged to underachievement Or teenager during puberty grows up into a shithead with no motivation
Which one sounds more likely
Not to mention all these "signs" you guys use to identify each other >drowning experiences >Israeli art student girlfriends (LMFAO) >abductions
Like you are? Might as well add alien sightings, finding money on the ground, and finding a 4 leaf clover.
