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Technically awesome but, I always have to wonder how much emotion a child prodigy can express at that age... or maybe I'm just old and bitter.

Child prodigy! Both weird and funny, I love it.

http://www.videosift.com/video/9-Child-Prodigies-Who-Are-Clearly-Dangerous-Mutants

Lists are better off being round numbers, so this makes ten

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In the case of the Beatles, who's to say the school McCartney and Harrison went to didn't foster their musical creativity? This guy has unrealistic expectations of a school's goals and what it should accomplish with its education. I'd go as far as to say they're elitist at best.

I can tell you from my own experience working at schools that the myth of "troublemakers get all the attention" is flat out wrong. Again from my experience. The same goes for "those who could be great" being consistently missed, what does that even mean? There's nothing speaking for that statement being in the least true, but even if a teacher doesn't abandon his class to go foster a child prodigy's ego, it won't mean that the child prodigy would suddenly lose its gift. There's this little thing called parents who also have a responsibility to help raise and educate their children. But then again I don't really understand what the whole "those who could be great" thing means, or why that should be the case.
Try giving the teachers classes of fewer than 30 students and fewer classes each semester aswell as the time and funding they desperately need, and you'll see the level of educational standards raised significantly. Because most teacher working full-time have over a hundred different students to teach each semester, all with different levels of knowledge and various abilities to learn. That means it's simply impossible to give every child full attention all the time. It would be wonderful if each student could get all the help they wanted at every moment of the day, but for a democracy to actually function properly you need citizens who can make informed decisions and not just decisions, which is why you can't just discard the numbskulls and focus on the gifted ones.
The guy in the video kept whining over that McCartney wasn't "discovered" in school as if the school itself should've somehow made sure he went and became a Beetle. That shows he fundamentally misunderstood what the goals of the school were. It also shows he was completely oblivious to the fact that McCartney went into music in a community which at the time was heavily biased against the arts, which very well could be attributed to him being subjected to music in school.

Also, there are more than one method used in schools, not only between countries but also between educational systems. But none of them ignores gifted students in favour of troubled ones. Generally, they all subscribe to the idea that we shouldn't actively work to create an educational class system but instead give all children the opportunity for an equal education. That does not mean they're in any way inhibited to go beyond the basic education, in school or after, but instead of ignoring the struggling children there's this crazy idea of leveling the playing field and raising the bar not for a select few but for everyone.
One of the most successful educational forms shown in preschool and gradeschool is with mixed classes of grades 1-3, 4-6 and 7-9, where the students aid the teacher by helping out in teaching each other.

Isn't it a *bit* unfair to blame the school for not being able to pick up on Paul McCartney's musical talent as a kid in a class of roundabout 30 students, in a subject that's not meant to foster child prodigys but to get everyone to get a feel for music and to stimulate their artistic sides by playing instruments, sing and create sounds? Seriously, this talker seems to believe that the arts class should be some sort of talent show for youngsters.
If McCartney hadn't gone to those classes, he might never have had the inclination to play in a band. Who can say for certain what made him go into music? I can tell you this though, the school bloody well didn't supress or ignore him by "not spotting anything".
That music teacher, who "had half the Beatles in his class", most likely had well over a hundred students a year. He/she would have had a strict curriculum stating that all the children would have to preform certain things before each school year was out, like for instance sing a song and play an instrument etc. That's what the music class is for, not spot the most musically gifted students and make popstars of them! And let's not overlook that neither McCartney nor Harrison at that time might've had their musical talent developed to any degree at all.

No, from my perspective it seems as if this talker needs to bring his expectations of teachers to the reality-based world and maybe try teaching gradeschool himself, or just stop talking to think for a second, before creating impossible demands like that.

Adding tags "not really" and "sarcasm" to make it more clear that it's not really a child prodigy but a cute video
Wasn't meaning for it to be taken seriously

Hey! Wish I caught this when you first posted Are you new to homeschooling?

Laura, have you joined a support group? Do so. Its good resource for you and friends for your son.

I hope you don't live in Ca. Have you read the news about that? Depending on what state you're in, cover yourself legally. If you live an unfriendly homeschool state, I would recommend joining The Homeschool Legal Defense Association. They will provide legal help for free if you are ever harassed by school officials or social workers.

The other guys in the thread have great points. Learning at your child's own pace, whether it's slow or child prodigy ...something, is the best thing about this.

One thing you have to accept during the first year: You will come up with a plan of action... great! Now be prepared to scrap it about every month or so and make a new one until you find your way that works.

You're going to be able to fashion his curriculum to fit your child's needs. There are SO many different ways to homeschool too.

Good luck, enjoy and don't be a stranger now!

I'll bet if somebody had showed Bill a video of the same little girl talking like Anne Coulter, he'd probably be praising her as a child prodigy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._tam_sessions
The R. Tam sessions are a series of five short videos released by Joss Whedon over the internet, which were set within his fictional "Firefly" universe. They chronicled several of the early in-universe interviews with the emotionally troubled Firefly character River Tam.
Although released unofficially, the videos were meant as a form of viral marketing for the 2005 film "Serenity"...
Set before the events of the "Firefly" television series and the film "Serenity", the R. Tam sessions depict excerpts of counseling sessions with the character River Tam while she is held at a "learning facility" known only as "The Academy." The counselor in these sessions is played by Joss Whedon himself. The videos shed some light on the experiments and torture "The Academy" conducted on River. They "document" her change from a shy child prodigy to the mentally unstable character of the television series.

Either this kid is a child prodigy of the highest order or it's not really very hard to drum.

*shields face from barrage of drumsticks*