I Was a Member of the Mentally Gifted Minors Program Mgm Stories of Experiences

I have four siblings and all but one of us were classified as gifted in the early 70's and placed in the MGM program. The program format varied at different grade levels. Initially, when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade at Roosevelt...

I remember being in a room with a man taking this test when i was 7. Then I started leaving regular class every now and then and going to the library to do games and activities. School was generally easy and boring, so I didn't mind...

That program screwed up my life. I just wanted to be a normal kid. Yes I got to do things and learn things most others did not. But there is a price. Opportunity sometimes does not result in a better outcome.

I've never heard of MGM, but I did all the other stuff — EPGY, CTY, BAGHS, camps, homeschooling, advanced in fist grade (they did a hybrid class for advanced 1st grade and 2nd in my school). I've heard words like 'gifted', 'advanced...

I remember being in the program starting in the 4th grade or so through Jr. High. I was going to Aeolian Elementary in Los Angeles school district. Then went to Los Nietos Jr. High with most of the same kids from elementary. I enjoyed...

Believe it was Ms Long and Mr Padgett. We had 5 in the carpool, with our parents sharing taking us all the way across Anaheim.
Math was patterns, matrices and such...serves me well in the data age. Believe english was where i...

My intro was less then stellar I'm certain. I was skipped from 2-3rd grade, this didn't sit well with me, so I started cutting class. I almost made it a week before getting caught, oops mom had friday off. Because we were taught and...

It reminds me of those old 60's-70's history films they showed back in those days.....

"blah blah blah.... And YOU Are There!"

Just remember all of the IQ testing leading up to it.
Remember them trying to really push the ESP ideas...

I started MGM at Lincoln in 4th grade in 1970. It was a great experience that year. Mrs. Stanley was a fantastic and caring educator. I do not, in retrospect, believe the program was designed as well in the Garden Grove School...

I can't remember much, but I do remember being bused to another elementary school for several years, probably starting in first grade - 1975 - and continuing until 4th or 5th. One day a week, running mice through mazes, visiting college...

I started in Manhattan Beach, CA  from 1st to 7th grades. I was the only person from my school picked up with a bus, one day a week, to attend what was then ELC (can't find any local info on it now - anyone know anything?) Happily, a...

I was a member of the LAUSD mentally gifted minors group @ Fernangeles Elementary School from 1971 to 1977.  I don't have a lot of memories of this time.  I remember enjoying the special classes, but also wondering why all of the kids...

I can't remember the name of the school but Marina was so small at that time that I'm sure there was only one elementary school.    It was about 1974-75.  Both my sister and I were in the program.  I don't remember being pulled out...

I was tested for MGM in Kindergarden by Mrs. Vera Trovarelli.  She was the MGM teacher from start to finish.  She was the most fantastic Teacher/woman I have ever met!  Always perfectly dressed in a business suit & heels, spoke more...

I loved the program. It changed my life. Would love to chat with anyone who was in the those classes at Patterson Elementary

I was attending 3rd grade at ElRancho elementary in Chino,CA and was bussed once a week to Gird elementary for MGM studies.   The entire experience was awful...
My regular teacher made me sit in the back of our classroom facing the...

It was an amazing time, and a frustrating one as well. I was born in a decidedly blue-collar town, with the requisite attitudes of the times. At age 7, I was led out of the classroom for a "special test" -- which I later learned was an...

My memory of MGM is that I was pulled out of class very often to be tested. I remember once being instructed to sit at a study corral, place headphones on my ears and procede to take a test. The test wasy easy even though the headphones...

My hard-working single parent mom got a call from the high school that we both had to come in - when we showed up, she was told that I needed to be put into the MGM program and that it would provide beneficial experiences beyond what...

My hard-working single parent mom got a call from the high school that we both had to come in - when we showed up, she was told that I needed to be put into the MGM program and that it would provide beneficial experiences beyond what...